A woman who was pulled out of raging flood waters in Brazil has spoken of her dramatic rescue and losing her beloved pet.
Ilair Pereira de Souza, 53, was helped by her neighbours when a river burst its banks in her hometown of Sao Jose do Vale do Rio Preto about 68 miles north of Rio de Janeiro
At least 611 people have died in the country after rains triggered flooding and landslides that tore through mountain villages and towns, in some cases burying families as they slept.
Ms Souza said: "The water had already reached the garage then I told my son 'let's find a way to solve this'.
"But he said: 'Mum let's leave, the walls are already collapsing, leave those things behind'.
Survivors of the mudslides are continuing to carry food, water and blankets to friends, neighbours and relatives still stranded in remote, stricken villages with more severe thunderstorms predicted.
Local and state fire departments say they have deployed 2,500 rescuers but 11 helicopters sent to airlift those in need have had difficulty flying through the low clouds and steady rain.
Police have said they have been too occupied with keeping order to deliver aid.
John McAreavey took the decision to share the image as he prepared to bury his wife beside the church where they married just after Christmas.
He has also released another picture of the couple outside of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to show how much she meant to him.
Irish President Mary McAleese and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness and Gerry Adams will attend the funeral service a few miles outside the Co Tyrone village of Ballygawley on Monday afternoon.
Michaela and John McAreavey outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France
Mrs McAreavey, a devout Catholic, was the daughter of Mickey Harte, the celebrated manager of Tyrone's gaelic football team.
Her coffin will be taken from her parent's home where hundreds have visited during a two-day wake.
Players from Harte's Tyrone team and his home club Errigal Ciaran will form a guard of honour.
A marquee for 300 people has been erected in the church grounds to cope with some of the overspill from the 400-capacity chapel.
The service will be led by Mr McAreavey's uncle, Bishop John McAreavey, who married the couple on December 30.
John and Michaela McAreavey at the Giant's Causeway, in North Antrim
Michaela's rosary beads, a pin representing her abstinence from alcohol, a Fainne emblem symbolising her love of the Irish language and a Tyrone jersey are all expected to be placed at the altar.
After mass, her coffin will be carried over a small stream to the adjoining cemetery for burial.
Mrs McAreavey's body was brought to the house on Friday night, ending the long journey from the Indian Ocean island.
Anglican Archbishop of Mauritius Ian Ernest said he felt his community wanted to seek forgiveness from the Irish people.
"There are lessons to learn for all of us but our country is a peaceful country, our country is a beautiful country and we have lots to offer to the world," he added.
Legends Hotel where body of Michaela McAreavey was found
Three employees at the Legends Hotel where she was killed have been charged in connection with the death, two with murder and one with conspiracy to murder.
Police say one of the accused, room attendant Avinash Treebhoowoon, 29, has confessed to the killing.
His co-accused, floor supervisor Sandip Moneea, 41, has denied any involvement.
It is understood Treebhoowoon admitted the crime to officers after the third accused, fellow room attendant Raj Theekoy, 33, made a statement implicating him and Moneea.
Theekoy is charged with conspiracy because he allegedly passed along the corridor outside the room while the struggle was taking place but, despite hearing screams, failed to report it.
Skin tissue found under Mrs McAreavey's fingernails could prove crucial to the police case against the two accused. The results of DNA tests are due in the next few days.
Health reforms planned by the Government are "extraordinarily risky" and could lead to lower standards of care, a report from the NHS Confederation is expected to warn.
Andrew Lansley wants to shake up the way hospitals are run and hand power to GPs
The organisation, which represents hospitals and primary care trusts, agrees reform is needed but will criticise Health Secretary Andrew Lansley for failing to explain how the changes will benefit patients, the Observer reported.
Mr Lansley is expected to publish the Health and Social Care Bill on Wednesday.
His reforms will hand GPs responsibility for around 80% of the NHS budget and abolish primary care trusts.
"Price competition", which will allow hospitals to undercut each other to attract patients, could risk standards of care, the NHS Confederation is set to warn.
"The absence of any compelling story about why the reforms are necessary or how they will translate into improved outcomes is of concern," it will say.
GPs may have to ration treatment and managers have to carry out the reforms despitebeing subjected to "unpleasant and demotivating" attacks.
The Government has protected the NHS budget, but it must still simplify its structure and cut bureaucracy.
Department of Health spokesman
There are risks to carrying out such substantial reforms at the same time as cutting managers by 45% and attempting to save £20bn by 2015, it will add.
Former health secretary Andy Burnham told Murnaghan the overhaul could bring chaos.
"These reforms threaten to unpick the fabric of our National Health Service. At just the moment when the NHS faces a huge financial challenge what do they do? They bring in a massive reorganisation on a scale that we have never seen before in the NHS," he said.
He described it as the "wrong reform at the wrong time" and claimed Labour's warnings about the Government's handling of the NHS had been proven correct.
Labour's shadow health secretary, John Healey, said the Confederation's report was a "comprehensive demolition job on the Conservative-led Government's handling of the NHS".
Andrew Lansley's reforms are wrong, ex health secretary Andy Burnham says
He said Prime Minister David Cameron had broken his promise to protect the health service.
But the Department of Health said the reforms would allow the NHS to put patients at the heart of everything it did and would "liberate" staff.
"We have listened extensively to all views about our plans to modernise the NHS. And now, with thanks to some 6,000 responses, we have set out with clarity and with direction why and how we need to deliver long-lasting reform in the NHS," a spokesman said.
"The Government has protected the NHS budget, but it must still simplify its structure and cut bureaucracy, which will release further savings to invest in care for patients. Modernisation of the NHS is a necessity, not an option.
"What we are proposing is a carefully staged transition, with the ever increasing engagement of patients and NHS staff," he added.
If I was to sack all the senior managers it would save less than 1% of the £90m worth of cuts that Eric Pickles is making us make.
Lambeth Council's Steve Reed
"Eric, you've fiddled the figures," he said during the fiery roundtable discussion.
Mr Reed accused the Communities Secretary - who disputed the claims - of inflicting cuts of 16.7% to his council this year.
"If I was to sack all the senior managers it would save less than 1% of the £90m worth of cuts that Eric Pickles is making us make [in total]," the told the programme.
"The problem isn't pay, the problem is he's front-loaded the cuts which makes it much more difficult to put in place plans to share back offices."
If the Labour Party wants to do that, let them use their own money, don't let them use the taxpayers' money.
Eric Pickles accuses Lambeth of paying for anti-government placards
He continued: "If he [Mr Pickles] understood how local government works he would not have allowed the front-loading the way he has done."
Care services and libraries would be forced to close, the Labour councillor added.
But the Conservative minister rejected this assessment and said he had cut £85m from his Whitehall department to spare local authorities cuts that were too severe.
He said Lambeth had reserves worth £83m and appeared to have spent cash putting anti-government placards near London's Waterloo station.
"If the Labour Party wants to do that, let them use their own money, don't let them use the taxpayers' money," Mr Pickles added.
Tony Travers from the London School of Economics, who also took part in debate, said the cuts were being front-loaded, both nationally and locally, to make sure they are less severe by the time the next election approaches.
Labour's Debbie Abrahams won the by-election, the Liberal Democrats came second
He predicted at least 100,000 jobs would go in local authorities across the country.
"We started third and of course we fought a very gentle campaign because that particular campaign was about the nastiness of previous Labour leaflets.
"The Liberals did, I think, pretty good. They increased their poll position."
The Tories were accused of failing to fight hard enough for the seat because they wanted to coalition partners the Lib Dems to win - something David Cameron denied.
Sally Bercow spoke about her husband, the Speaker
:: Also on Murnaghan, Labour activist Sally Bercow said there was a whispering campaign against her husband - Commons Speaker John Bercow.
"The bottom line is a lot of Tories, I'm afraid, still can't accept that my husband won the speakership fair and square and is doing a very good job and he did it without Tory support," she said.
"There'll always be a whispering campaign... basically he is on the side of the backbenchers," she added.
The Irish prime minister has confirmed he will stay on as leader amid damaging claims about his relationships with former bankers.
After holding two days of private talks with ministers and backbenchers Brian Cowen announced it was "not in the country's interest for him to stand down as party leader."
He also said he would place a vote of confidence in his leadership on Tuesday.
A number of ministers had called on him to stand down after claims he played golf with the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank just months before the scandal-riddled lender was taken into state care.
The allegations angered some of Mr Cowen's senior cabinet colleagues and backbench MPs who were already fearful of losing their seats in the forthcoming election.
Campaigners protesting about the economic bailout in November
Mr Cowen faced pressure to step down in November after pushing through the controversial 85bn euro bailout packagewhich he claimed was the "most important thing for the country".
He argued Ireland had no choice but to take loans from the EU and the International Monetary Fund at interest rates averaging 5.8% because bond investors would charge more.
Ireland's so-called Celtic Tiger economy was hit hard by the recession and the property bubble bursting.
British tourists stranded in Tunisia have hit out at fellow travellers who have complained of ''over-reaction'' from tour operators at bringing them home.
The row has come as tour operators Thomson and First Choice flew nearly 1,500 customers back to safety in the UK on Sunday.
However, the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) estimated that around 5,000 British tourists are in Tunisia at popular resorts including Sousse, Portel Kantoui, Hammamet, Djerba, Skanes and Mahdia.
It is also thought there are approximately 1,000 British ex-pats living in Tunisia.
One group stuck at the airport, on an overland tour from Turkey, through Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Libya before ending in Tunisia, was preparing for its second night at the airport.
In our hotel we heard gunshots and the staff told us to keep away from the windows. They said it was better not to go out.
James Milner-Walker
Among them are James Milner-Walker, 32, and fellow traveller April Clark, 33, both from Petersfield, Hampshire, who were sat in a second-floor coffee bar which had long run out of food and drink.
Mr Milner-Walker said: "In our hotel we heard gunshots, and the staff told us to keep away from the windows. They said it was better not to go out and we should keep the shutters down.
"We have seen some nasty rioting, though, from the windows and there has been plenty of tear gas and things set on fire.
"The rioters were throwing petrol bombs and stones at the police and it was pretty scary.
Tunisia's National Guard secure the country's streets
"To hear people say they are upset and tour companies have over-reacted is a bit much - I can only think they have not seen the level of violence that we have."
Ms Clark said: ''There are police everywhere and we should have stayed here for a few more days, but after the rioting we saw we decided it was best to try and leave.
"We managed to get a taxi to the airport but that took ages, and we have been here since Friday morning, waiting for our flight.
"Those that are back should be grateful they are safe at home. There is no food or water here and we are living on a packet of crisps.''
British people should not go to Tunisia unless they have an essential reason - and essential is not a holiday.
British Foreign & Commonwealth Office spokesman
Graham Sadler, 38, from Southampton, tour leader with Oasis Overland, said: ''It was pretty hairy in the city. There were police everywhere and there was a lot of shooting going on.
''I was in a hotel when I saw some police shouting at a guy on a balcony and then they started shooting at him. The staff pulled me back inside and then pulled the shutters down.
''A few minutes later they opened them up, looked outside and then looked at me with a look on his face as if to say: 'not very good don't look outside'.
''We have been here two days now and you have to take things as they come at you, but I will be glad to get back and I'm surprised people are complaining.
Some British holidaymakers are home already
''In my opinion, getting out of here is the safest option. I know the feeling is that tourists are not being targeted, but when someone has a gun they probably don't have a preference who they shoot.''
A spokesman for the Foreign Office warned travellers to avoid all non-essential travel to Tunisia.
He said: "British people should not go to Tunisia unless they have an essential reason - and essential is not a holiday."
Alison Chung and Richard Williams, Sky News Online
Gunfights broke out in the Tunisian capital as tensions mounted once more ahead of the formation of a new government.
Shots could be heard in the centre of Tunis, with a battle reported to be underway near the city's presidential palace.
Opposition party leaders say the composition of a new government will be announced on Monday and will not include any parties close to disgraced former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
But plans to reinstate political stability came amid reports police had arrested four people carrying German passports and two with Swedish passports over a gun battle near opposition headquarters.
Police also said they had killed two snipers, while a separate gun battle took place near the dreaded interior ministry building.
The skirmishes came as troops and tanks in the centre of the city attempted to prevent further violence and looting and the new leadership seek to create a coalition government.
Hundreds of soldiers are patrolling the streets of the capital, while army roadblocks have stopped access to Bourguiba Avenue, Tunis' main thoroughfare and scene of angry clashes.
In the wake of a second evening of city-wide curfew, reports emerged of unprecedented clashes between protesters and troops in the city.
But Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi gave an optimistic appraisal of the future during a brief statement on state television.
"Tomorrow we will announce the new government which will open a new page in the history of Tunisia," he said.
According to state media, several people including the former head of the presidential guard Ali Seriati have been detained accused of fomenting violence.
In some Tunis neighbourhoods, residents set up barricades and organised their own overnight patrols, armed with baseball bats and clubs, to deter looters.
On Saturday, around 1,000 prison inmates escaped and dozens were killed as they staged a mass jailbreak in the coastal town of Mahdia.
Elsewhere at another jail south of Tunis, 42 people died after fires broke out.
The violence came as Tunisia's parliamentary speaker was sworn in as interim president following weeks of unrest that forced the nation's leader to flee.
Are Troops Regaining Control?
Fouad Mebazaa took an oath of office after a ruling by the country's constitutional authority, which also said presidential elections must be held within 60 days.
That came after prime minister Mr Ghannouchi took over as interim president after Mr Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia.
Mr Ben Ali, who served as president for more than 23 years, took refuge in the kingdom following weeks of protests over poverty, unemployment and repression.
Mr Ghannouchi said he had accepted Mr Mebazaa's request on state television that he form a coalition government.
Will the new leadership quell the violence?
The French government was among a number across Europe which called on Tunisia to hold free elections as soon as possible.
It said it had taken steps "to ensure suspicious financial movements concerning Tunisian assets in France are blocked administratively".
But Mr Ben Ali's overthrow has reverberated with long-serving leaders in other countries across the Arab world .
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said: "I am very pained by what is happening in Tunisia."
It was not clear if protesters would accept the new power arrangement because of Mr Mebazaa and Mr Ghannouchi's links to Ben Ali's rule.
The fall of Mr Ben Ali follows the country's largest protests in generations.
Thousands of Tunisians had joined the violence that spread from provincial towns to Tunis.
The government said at least 23 people have died in the riots, but opposition members have put the death toll at more than three times that.
