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Michael sent these photos yesterday. Here are fresh ones for today:

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He has sent these:

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Paddy and his trusty producer Bruce have interviewed the bunga bunga party friend of the Italian prime minister. Can't wait to hear the interview on Sunday? Look, Paddy has sent this scene-setting photo:

Not around on Sunday morning? Why not podcast? You don't need a pod!

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As Hugh reported on the World at One on Wednesday: "Democracy protests in Tahrir Square next door, lots of noise - perfect cover for thieves to get onto the roof of Cairo Museum and break in and slide down ropes and nick stuff. A bit like the classic thriller Topkapi, starring Peter Ustinov, in which a man is lowered on a wire to steal the Pink Panther diamond. Small items were taken from Cairo Museum, mostly - but significant. Some of them have already been recovered, but broken.

And there are still tanks on the streets.

In front of Tutankhamun's death mask, the minister for Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, vehemently counters accusations that the robbery at the museum were an inside job.

The face of authority. I said to a soldier, "So you are the governemt now!" Yes, he replied, "We are the authority".

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(State) Television Centre

Relax, it's only an armed personnel vehicle.

Guns and baked sweet potatoes outside the television centre

Guns'n'Pretzels

Guns'n'Radio Shack

They protect the television building to stop this happening to it. This is (was) the headquarters of Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party.

Revolutionary civic pride.

Volunteers have been repainting white lines, railings and curbstones, and removing graffiti. "We are making Cairo clean, " one said.

Black chador, and baseball cap. Fundamentalist Islam Not.

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Hugh has been witnessing history in Egypt over the past few days. Here are some of his photographs. Smiles, fireworks and flags. The (mostly) friendly revolution. And the last one is of graffiti on the wall of the Horrea Cafe in Cairo. Horrea means 'freedom'. But they'd run out of beer; the staff said it was because the protests had interrupted their supplies.

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"A new exhibition has just opened here in the lobby of TV Centre. It features some of the real microphones used by King George VI when he spoke, using the King's Speech. They were disguised to look like desk furniture instead of those nasty looking modern microphones of the day."

And Paddy has been back down to reception to snap this for you:

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Gregg Donovan with a fan.

We'll talk to Gregg Donovan on the programme tonight, the Ambassador for Beverly Hills who faces the axe because of budget cuts. There's more in today's h.

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...is here.

I put "sleep" into our photo search and this was the top choice.

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...with the 19-year-old woman who suffered from an eating disorder and related problems, you might want to know what help is available.

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ has compiled some useful webpages about eating disorders and other mental health issues, including links to organisations which offer support and advice.

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Here are photos and words from John, along with his despatch on last night's PM.

"Reporting this kind of continually moving foreign story is always a case of thinking ahead. What's likely to happen next? Where is it best for us to be? Is it safe for us to be there? And will we be able to get back to the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ bureau to file? At times it's not been easy... the level of violence has been high. As well as tear gas and baton rounds the police were using live ammunition. For the past few days moving around the city has been difficult because of the makeshift checkpoints set up on almost every corner by groups of citizens vigilantes. They're there to protect their homes and businesses from looters as the police, having lost control of some areas of the city, had for a time almost completely withdrawn from the streets. The vigilantes are good natured and allow reasonably swift passage for journalists, but an altercation with them wouldn't be advised. They're heavily armed with almost anything they can get their hands on. A sort of neighbourhood watch with meat cleavers. I've had the privilege of working alongside Leana Hosea, the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ producer based here in Cairo. There's a picture of her below, standing with Said Shehata from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Arabic Service, on a normally busy road, but now deserted mid-curfew. Much of what you've heard in my reports over the past few days is really down to her. The rest of the pictures speak for themselves. It's been an extraordinary story to be involved in, and a privilege to be here to tell it on behalf of PM and our sister programme The World at One."

Army checkpoint

Burnt police van

Citizens' checkpoint

Leana and Said

Party HQ

Police car

Protestors in Tahrir Square

Ruling party HQ on fire

The army on the streets

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