World News from the BBC

India's environment ministry has ordered the demolition of an apartment building in an exclusive part of central Mumbai because it violates coastal protection laws. The 31-storey high rise was originally planned as a six-storey housing project for war widows, but apartments were sold to politicians and military officers allegedly at prices far below the prevailing market rate.

The Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has announced that he'll stay on as leader of the governing Fianna Fail party, despite pressure to resign over the financial crisis. He said his resignation wouldn't be in the country's best interests, but that a confidence motion on his leadership would be put to his party on Tuesday. The Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, who's offered his resignation, says he'll vote against the prime minister as the party needed a new leader.

The new leader of the far-right National Front in France, Marine Le Pen, has promised to continue what she called the fight for France's sovereignty. After succeeding her father as leader at a party convention in the city of Tours, Marine Le Pen said politicians had let unbridled capitalism and the rights of minorities undermine French society.

"Who from now on can prevent the French from seeing what their cities have been transformed into? The corruption of our political classes and the super-rich who sell off the fruits of our work and the country's wealth? The surrender to the anti-libertarian demands of minorities who try and impose their values on us?"