A third frustrating day for the International Red Cross and its Syrian Red Crescent partners, obliged once again as night fell to
put off
their efforts to get into Baba Amr until the morning. A spokesman for the ICRC said the Syrian authorities were refusing access because of the danger of mines and
booby traps
. But activist groups continue to report arbitrary killings there. The Local Coordination Committees, one of the most active groups, said there had been a systematic pattern of
summary executions
, in which dozens had been killed since security forces moved in on Thursday.
The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he's had a
recurrence
of the cancer he was treated for last year. Mr Chavez said a lesion he had removed from his pelvic region earlier this week was malignant. In a televised message recorded in Cuba, where he's being treated, Mr Chavez said the tumour had not spread. The president said he'd undergo
radiotherapy
. The news comes just seven months before presidential elections.
Police in Peru say they've captured a man they suspect of leading the
remnants
of the Shining Path rebel group. They say the man had been reorganising the guerrillas after their previous leader, known as Comrade Artemio, was arrested last month. The Shining Path, a Maoist rebel group, posed a major challenge to the Peruvian state in the 1980s.
The manager of the English Premier League football club Chelsea, Andre Villas-Boas, has been sacked. A statement from the club, owned by the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, said results and performances hadn't been good enough. Villas-Boas, who's Portuguese, has been under intense pressure with Chelsea on the verge of being knocked out of this season's