BBC News with Iain Purdon
Divers searching a
submerged
cruise ship in Italy say they will work through the night to try to find more survivors. Fifteen people are still unaccounted for while five are known to have died. Earlier, two more bodies were found. Filippo Marini is a spokesman for the Italian coast guard.
"The bodies of two elderly people have been found. They'll be identified as soon as possible. The correct procedures will be observed, and then we will proceed with identification. It's a sad piece of news to give. Our divers have found themselves with this very sad situation. The bodies are being brought onto the mainland. They're two elderly people found on the third floor in a meeting area section of the ship."
The vessel, the Costa Concordia,
smashed
into rocks off the Italian coast on Friday. The ship's captain has been questioned. He argues that
nautical
charts failed to show any spike of rock, but the authorities say he brought the ship too close to the island of Giglio, where it ran aground.
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has harshly criticised President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and the way he's handled the anti-government protests in the country. Speaking in Lebanon, Mr Ban said the Arab revolution showed that people no longer accepted tyrannies.
"Today, I say again to President Assad of Syria: Stop killing your own people. The path of repression is a