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BBC news 2011-11-30

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The British Prime Minister David Cameron has said Iran will face serious consequences after hundreds of protesters stormed two British diplomatic compounds in Tehran. Mr Cameron described the attacks as "outrageous and indefensible", sentiments echoed by the Foreign Secretary William Hague.

"The United Kingdom takes this irresponsible action extremely seriously. It amounts to a grave breach of the Vienna Convention. We hold the Iranian government responsible for its failure to take adequate measures to protect our embassy as it is required to do."

During the storming, offices were smashed and flags torn down in the attacks, which followed a demonstration against sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear programme. The Iranian foreign ministry has expressed regret for what it described as the unacceptable behaviour of a small group of protesters.

The US doctor convicted of ending the life of Michael Jackson has been given the maximum sentence of four years in jail. The judge said Doctor Conrad Murray had continually lied and was caught in a cycle of medicine madness that violated his obligations as a doctor. He was found guilty earlier this month of involuntary manslaughter. Alastair Leithead reports from Los Angeles.

A lawyer and friend of the Jackson family read a statement to the court describing their loss of a father, brother and son, but acknowledging even the maximum four-year sentence would not bring him back. The prosecution summarised what Doctor Murray had been convicted of: providing a dangerous drug to a vulnerable man, not caring for him before his death or once he stopped breathing, and then trying to cover up what he'd done. Conrad Murray again elected not to speak in his own defence. His lawyer focused on his life before becoming Michael Jackson's doctor.

Reports from Ivory Coast say the former President Laurent Gbagbo is on a plane heading for the International Criminal Court in The Hague after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Both Mr Gbagbo's lawyer and the country's national prosecutor say that he's left the northern town of Korhogo, where he's been under house arrest since being toppled from power in April. John James reports from Abidjan.

The government of President Alassane Ouattara has been keen for Mr Gbagbo to be sent to the International Criminal Court before National Assembly elections planned for the 11 December. The former president's presence on Ivorian soil caused tension with repeated reports in the newspapers that pro-Gbagbo armed groups would try and free their leader. It's not clear what charges he will face at the International Criminal Court, but around 3,000 people died in a post-election crisis provoked by Mr Gbagbo's decision to stay on in power.

Finance ministers from the eurozone are meeting in Brussels for their latest debt crisis talks. They are trying to raise money for the bailout fund so it's big enough to provide a lifeline to Spain or Italy if needed, but it's thought that they won't reach the proposed trillion euros.

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China is raising its rural poverty line by more than 90% in what it says is an attempt to increase aid to its low-income population. People will be classified as poor in future if they earn less than $1 a day, meaning four times as many people as now will be entitled to government subsidies and training. The Chinese President Hu Jintao demanded more effective action to narrow the gap between rich and poor, which analysts say has widened.

Psychiatrists appointed by a court in Norway have concluded that the man who killed 77 people in July was insane when he committed the crime. They found Anders Behring Breivik was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed that he had been chosen to save the Norwegian people. Emily Buchanan reports.

Two psychiatrists spent a total of 36 hours talking to Anders Breivik as well as poring over his diaries and police interviews. They concluded that Norway's mass killer was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and so was not criminally responsible for his actions. Some psychologists have expressed surprise at this diagnosis, given his meticulous well-planned crime, but the psychiatrists justified their diagnosis by saying Breivik has so-called "grandiose delusions", believing himself to be the leader of a movement that will rescue Norway from multiculturalism.

Four of 11 candidates standing in Monday's presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo have called for the poll to be annulled. The four - Kengo wa Dondo, Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi, Adam and Vital Kamerhe - accused the authorities of systematic fraud, which meant that the poll would not be credible. The electoral commission called the move an act of desperation. There were reports of ballot-rigging and also violence during voting, but the commission has described the poll as satisfactory. International monitors have yet to give their formal assessment.

That's the latest BBC World News.