BBC News with Nick Kelley.
Egyptian state media say one person has been killed and at least 65 others injured during clashes in the capital Cairo after funeral prayers for Coptic Christians killed in sectarian violence. Witnesses said mourners were pelted with stone as they left St Mark's Cathedral chanting slogans against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohammed Morsi. Aleem Maqbool reports.
The funerals turned into a demonstration against Egypt's ruling party, it's spilled out into the streets, it wasn't an outpouring of rage, but also fear for what the future holds for minorities here. The priest of the local church Sourial Yunnan says conditions for Christians in Egypt have deteriorated under the ruling Muslim Brotherhood and believes the worse is yet to come.
President Morsi has condemned the violence and said any attack on the Cathedral was an attack on him personally.
Villagers and officials in eastern Afghanistan have said that 11 children had been killed in NATO air strikes on three villages. Locals said some of the children died when the roof of their home collapsed after bombs were dropped in Kunar province closed to the Pakistan border, two women and several insurgents were also killed. One tribal elder said fighting in the area lasted for seven hours. International coalition ISAF said it had no reports of civilian death from the operation but was investigating.
The Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has outlined new spending cuts following the constitutional court's rejection of parts of the government's