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First, today's main stories in detail.

BBC News with Nick Kelly.

The United Nation special envoy Ibrahim Gambari says there's consensus in the Security Council that following recent unrest in Burma, a return to the status quo would be unacceptable. Burmese monks in the UN visitors' gallery in New York heard Mr. Gambari urge Burma's military leaders to stop the killings, release political prisoners, and meet the opposition. Our UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan reports.

As Burma's UN envoy sat impassively and red-robed monks listened intently from the visitors' gallery, Ibrahim Gambari spoke of continuing and disturbing reports of abuse by the security forces, and noted unconfirmed accounts that the number of casualties is much higher than the authorities have admitted. Mr. Gambari said he was cautiously encouraged by General Than Shwe's offer of talks with the detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. He said he saw a window of opportunity for possible talks and hoped to return to Burma before his scheduled date of mid-November.

Marion Jones, the triple Olympic gold medal winning athlete, has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators in America about her use of steroids. The sprinter stands to lose the 5 medals she won at the Sydney Games seven years ago. Mike Costello reports.

Marion Jones appeared at the court in White Plains, north of New York City late on Friday afternoon, looking tense and accompanied by her mother. She pleaded guilty to charges of lying to federal agents about the use of illegal steroids and about an unrelated financial matter. She was confirming what she said in a letter leaked to the Washington Post, that she lied to investigators about the use of banned substances in the buildup to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, where she won 3 gold medals and 2 bronzes. In response, the International Olympic Committee have said they are prepared to strip her of the medals once they've assessed the case.

President Bush has dismissed as "baseless gossip" Arab Press' reports that he has ordered preparations for a military attack against Iran early next year. In an interview with the Al-Arabiya satellite network, Mr. Bush expressed his determination to confront Iran's nuclear ambitions through diplomatic means.

A spokesman for Prince William, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth, says the prince is concerned about what he described as the threatening behavior of paparazzi. The prince and his girlfriend Kate Middleton, were chased by photographers in cars and motorbikes as they left a London night club on Thursday night. Torin Douglas reports.

The prince and Kate Middleton were photographed as they left a London night club. According to his spokesman Paddy Harverson, their car was then pursued by photographers on motorcycles, in vehicles and on foot. Mr. Harverson said the prince found it incomprehensible that such potentially dangerous behavior continued as a jury was hearing evidence into the death of his mother Diana, Princess of Wales. She was being pursued by photographers when her car crashed in a Paris underpass.

World News from the BBC.

A judge in Santiago has ordered the conditional release of the widow and five children of the former military ruler of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet. The group will remain behind bars until an appeals court rules on the decision on Saturday. General Pinochet's family was arrested on Thursday for the alleged illegal transfer of $27 million to foreign banks.

A court in the United States has been told that a pregnant woman was probably still alive when a stranger attacked her and removed her unborn baby. The baby survived and is now 3 years old. Andy Gallagher reports.

The court was told that Bobbie Jo Stinnett, who was eight months pregnant at the time of her death, had fought for her life and that of her unborn child. The mother-to-be was strangled at her home in Missouri, and her baby was removed from her womb. The prosecution said that Lisa Montgomery spent a great deal of time planning the murder, using the Internet to research home births and cesarean sections before carrying out the brutal killing. The police found the baby the day after the killing, using E-mails Lisa Montgomery had sent to the murdered woman. Lisa Montgomery's lawyers claimed that she was insane at the time of the attack, and she has pleaded not guilty to the killing.

The party of the exiled former Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto will take part in the presidential election later today, which has been boycotted by opposition parties. The move is part of a reconciliation agreement between Ms. Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf which paves the way for power-sharing deal. Under the terms of the agreement, corruption charges against Ms. Bhutto will be dropped so she can return to Pakistan.

And a Canadian company has been granted a patent waiver to produce generic anti-retroviral drugs for export to Rwanda, the first such authorization to occur under World Trade Organization rules, put in place in 2003. Under the deal, Rwanda will import 260, 000 packs of a generic antiretroviral drug.

BBC News.

Glossary
status quo
n. The existing condition or state of affairs.
现状：现存情况或事态
cesarean section 也作 caesarean section
n. A surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus, performed to deliver a fetus. 剖腹产手术：切开腹腔壁和子宫取出胎儿的一种外科手术
From the traditional belief that Julius Caesar (or his eponymous ancestor) was born by this operation
源自尤利乌斯凯撒 Caesar（或其先人）即以此种手术出生的传统观念
retrovirus n. [微]逆转录酶病毒( 一种致肿瘤病毒)