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Tens of thousands of Egyptians have demonstrated in Tahrir Square in Cairo, demanding that the military government
hand over
power to civilian rule. The demonstration, one of the largest in recent months, follows the disqualification of several leading presidential candidates for the elections next month.
Anders Behring Breivik, who's on trial in Norway for killing 77 people last July, has given a
chilling
account to the court of how he killed 69 people on the island of Utoya. Matthew Price reports from Oslo.
Today he talked us through his killing spree as if he were describing a day at work. "Under normal circumstances I'm a nice person," he said. As he reached the island and prepared for the massacre, "I was thinking I don't want to do this. Then I thought this is now or never." At one point, he said, people were
paralysed
with fear in front of him. "I put new ammunition in while they just stood there.
Then I shot them in the head." And he tricked people, asking if they had seen the terrorist. "Some looked sceptical while some moved towards me. When they got closer, I lifted the gun and shot the first one in the head."
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy has held his final rally on the last day of campaigning for Sunday's first round of voting in the presidential elections. He urged his supporters to choose what he called a "strong France". Opinion polls suggest a close race between Mr Sarkozy and his Socialist rival Francois Hollande, who is expected to win a second round run-off vote. Economic issues have dominated the campaign with Mr Hollande emphasising the need for growth rather than austerity to solve France's financial woes.