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A senior figure in Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood movement, Khairat al-Shater, has formally registered to stand in next month's presidential election. He was cheered by supporters as he arrived to hand in his papers at the election committee headquarters in Cairo. The Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned for most of the last 64 years, now enjoys widespread public support and is the dominant force in the Egyptian parliament.
With the French presidential election just weeks away, the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said only he can guarantee economic stability in
turbulent
times. From Paris, here's Hugh Schofield.
The most important of the economic policies centre on the need for fiscal responsibility. If he's elected, then later in the year, President Sarkozy said he'll get voted through a constitutional change committing France to a balanced budget. Styling himself as the man who's
steered
France through its most severe economic crisis in modern times, he launched a
withering
attack on the Socialists, whose candidate Francois Hollande, he said, was promising nothing but a "festival of new spending".
State radio in Malawi says the President Bingu wa Mutharika will be airlifted to South Africa for medical treatment following a heart attack.
The 78-year-old leader was initially taken to hospital in the Malawian capital Lilongwe. Mr Mutharika first took power in 2004 and was re-elected five years later. His policies angered many Western countries, which cut aid to Malawi in 2011 after opposition protesters were killed.