[00:00.00]BBC News with David Austin
[00:03.32]The funeral of the American singer Whitney Houston has just ended in Newark, New Jersey.
[00:08.29]It took place in a Baptist church, where she first began her singing career as a child.
[00:12.86]After many tributes by friends and family, the service concluded with a recording of Whitney Houston's greatest hit I Will Always Love You. 
[00:20.73]As part of the ceremony, Stevie Wonder performed his hit Love's in Need of Love Today.
[00:25.61]There's been violence in the Syrian capital Damascus, where a Chinese diplomatic mission has met President Bashar al-Assad
[00:57.83]and called for restraint in the conflict between his forces and the opposition.
[01:01.65]A funeral in Damascus turned into one of the biggest demonstrations yet seen there.
[01:06.51]Opposition activists said at least one person was killed when security forces opened fire. 
[01:11.63]Another 12 people were reported killed in other parts of the country.
[01:15.64]Diplomats at the United Nations nuclear watchdog in Vienna say that Iran is on the verge of greatly expanding its nuclear programme at an underground site.
[01:25.60]They say it's preparing to install thousands of new machines for enriching uranium at the facility near the city of Qom. Bethany Bell reports.
[01:34.12]New-generation centrifuges could greatly speed up the production of material that could be used for nuclear warheads.
[01:42.14]Western countries fear that Iran is secretly trying to develop a nuclear bomb, and they've increased international sanctions.
[01:50.24]But Tehran says its nuclear work is purely peaceful.
[01:54.47]This week, inspectors from the United Nations nuclear watchdog will be holding talks in Tehran to address the concerns about Iran's  controversial nuclear work.
[02:06.03]There have been more clashes in Senegal between police and people protesting against President Abdoulaye Wade's decision to stand for a third term in next weekend's elections. Thomas Fessy reports from the capital Dakar.
[02:18.05]The security forces have engaged in street running battles, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at scores of youth[s] who have mounted  barricades, 
[02:29.30]setting ablaze tyres and throwing stones back at the police. 
[02:33.72]This is happening right in the centre of the capital, just a few blocks away from the main square of the city's business centre,
[02:41.84]where the protesters were hoping to hold a rally. Just about a week ahead of the election, 
[02:46.94]they say they will continue to protest until the incumbent President Abdoulaye Wade withdraw[s] his candidacy for a third term.
[02:54.91]Thomas Fessy reporting World News from the BBC
[02:59.40]Somali leaders have signed an agreement which they hope will end the country's crisis.
[03:04.85]Somalia has been without a central government for the last 20 years. Martin Plaut has the details.
[03:10.77]The plan envisages a new smaller parliament with an upper chamber of elders. Thirty per cent of MPs will be women.
[03:17.68]The constitution would provide for a federal system of government building on the autonomous regional assemblies that already exist.
[03:25.94]The agreement - signed by the current government, two regional administrations and a pro-government militia - 
[03:32.10]will be discussed at next week's London conference on Somalia.
[03:35.34]But the Islamist group al-Shabab, which holds much of the centre and south of the country, did not participate in the agreement.
[03:42.85]Reports from Russia say that 17 security personnel have been killed during four days of fighting on the Chechen-Dagestan border in the North Caucasus.
[03:51.84]Seven insurgents were also killed in what's been the worst violence in the region in months.
[03:57.09]Russia is facing an Islamist insurgency along its southern border more than a decade after it defeated a separatist movement in Chechnya.
[04:05.05]Votes are being counted in the Baltic republic of Latvia in a referendum on whether Russian should become the second official language.
[04:12.04]The Central Election Commission said around two thirds of registered voters participated.
[04:17.46]Ethnic Russians, who make up a third of Latvia's population of about two million, 
[04:21.87]feel discriminated against as proficiency in Latvian is needed to become a citizen and to vote.
[04:27.90]The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 
[04:32.53]is expected to be questioned next week by police investigating an alleged prostitution ring.
[04:37.67]Sources familiar with the case say he's been summoned for questioning on Tuesday about sex parties
[04:43.43]that allegedly took place at restaurants and swingers' clubs in cities including Paris and Washington.
[04:49.13]Mr Strauss-Kahn resigned as head of the IMF in May after he was accused of trying to rape a New York hotel maid. That case collapsed.That's the BBC News.