BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

Italy's fragile coalition government has collapsed after ministers belonging to the center-right party of the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said they were resigning. Here's BBC's Rome correspondent Alan Johnston.

Tensions within the government had become extreme in recent days so much so that the center-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta said he will put business on hold until his administration secured fresh backing in a parliamentary confidence vote. But Mr. Berlusconi said he wouldn't support a government that put important economic matters on hold and so his ministers have resigned. Mr. Letta said that the reasons Mr. Berlusconi has given for the resignations are a huge lie. There’s been a complete breakdown in relations.

At least 42 people have died in Nigeria after an overloaded boat capsized in the River Niger, more than 100 are still missing. Officials say the boat split in two after setting off from a village in Niger state. From Lagos, Tomi Oladipo.

The passengers were mostly traders returning home after a busy market day in another village before disaster struck. A spokesman for the state emergency management agency says the boat had over 150 people on board, more than double the number of the passengers that could handle not counting the heavy goods they had with them. Officials say the recovered corpses will be given a mass burial near the riverbank. Water transport is not well regulated on the River Niger and boats often travel overloaded.