BBC News with David Legge

The government of Yemen says two boats crammed with African migrants have capsized off its coast, killing more than 80 people. Rescue teams have found only three survivors. Magdi Abdelhadi reports.

The Yemeni interior ministry issued a brief statement which gave few details. It said that the boats went down in strong wind and that the coast guards were looking for possible survivors. Thousands of African immigrants take the perilous journey across the Red Sea to Yemen every year. Many drown in their rickety boats. It is perhaps a measure of the hard life they are fleeing that the refugees continue to try to come to Yemen, despite the risk to the lives and the bleak life that awaits most of them in one of the poorest countries in the world.

The veteran Democratic politician Jerry Brown has been sworn in again as governor of California at a ceremony in Sacramento. Mr Brown, who last served in the job almost three decades ago, replaces the Republican former Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger. From California, Rajesh Mirchandani reports.

Seventy-two-year-old Jerry Brown has already held the office of governor for eight years until 1983. His latest inauguration ceremony in Sacramento was a modest affair that began with a youthful, exuberant choir, perhaps a symbol of the California many remember. But he inherits a state in economic crisis and is expected to announce deep cuts. In his speech, the Democratic governor asserted that government pays for things many people want, but admitted difficult decisions have to be made.