BBC News with Kathy Clugston
In one of its strongest
resolutions
, the United Nations Human Rights Council has authorised a UN investigation into mass killings in Syria last week. More than 100 people, including many children, died in the violence in the city of Houla. Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva.
The decision to investigate the Houla killings and to publicly identify those responsible is a clear sign that the violations in Syria will, in the long term at least, end up at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Karen Pierce is a UK's ambassador in Geneva.
"[The] killing of 49 children has rightly shocked the delegations here as it's shocked people around the world. And the idea of publishing findings and naming people is to
hold them to account
and to let them know that they will be held to account." Russia, China and Cuba all voted against the resolution, claiming it was biased because it referred to the deaths in Houla as the work of pro-regime elements.
President Francois Hollande of France has said the only way out of the crisis in Syria is the departure of President Bashar al-Assad. After talks with his Russian
counterpart
Vladimir Putin, he called for UN sanctions against Syria, but Mr Putin cast doubt on the effectiveness of sanctions and said Syria's rebels had also killed civilians.
There have been sharp falls in share prices in the United States and Europe following a weak official report on the US jobs market. Earlier figures had confirmed signs of a slowdown in China. Here's our economics correspondent Andrew Walker.