BBC News with Julie Candler
Dilma Rousseff has been sworn in as the new president of Brazil, the first woman to lead Latin America's biggest nation. In her inaugural speech, she promised to
consolidate
the work of her
predecessor
, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, saying he'd transformed the way Brazil was governed and lifted millions out of misery. Ms Rousseff said her top priorities were to
eradicate
extreme poverty, and improve education and health.
"I cannot rest when there are people who don't have food on the table, when families are sleeping rough on the streets and when there are poor children who've been abandoned."
Ms Rousseff said Brazil had been living through one of the greatest moments in its history.
There's been widespread condemnation of a bomb attack on a Christian church in Egypt which killed 21 people and injured many more. President Mubarak said it was the work of wicked terrorists who wanted to
destabilise
the country. Mohammed al-Tahtawi, a spokesman for the al-Azhar mosque, the highest religious authority in Egypt, said that Islam outlawed any attacks on places of worship.
"I would like to emphasise that this act is a sin according to Sharia law because Islam makes it
obligatory
to protect churches as well as mosques, and whoever carried out this attack has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.
On the contrary
, an act like this damages the reputation of Islam."