War correspondent Marie Colvin has been buried in the Long Island community of her childhood where she first decided to become a reporter.

United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has visited Baba Amr, becoming the first international official to enter the embattled Syrian district since fighting began.

Red Cross teams handed out food, blankets and medical kits to desperate Syrians in central Homs province.

Syrian artillery pounded the rebel city of Rastan yesterday, killing seven civilians, monitors said.

The bodies of Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, killed in shelling while trapped in Syria, left the country on board a French plane to Paris.

Syrian Red Crescent officials have handed over the bodies of two foreign journalists who were killed in Syria to embassy officials.

Arrangements are being made for the repatriation of a newspaper journalist killed in Syria after her body arrived in Damascus.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has said it has recovered the bodies of two foreign journalists killed in Syria.

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it now has the bodies of two foreign reporters killed in Syria and is taking them to Damascus.

A Red Cross aid convoy carrying emergency supplies is heading to the Syrian city of Homs.

Two Western journalists killed in the Syrian city of Homs last week were buried in the embattled neighbourhood where they died, according to activist videos, while two other reporters escaped into neighbouring Lebanon.

Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa has escaped the besieged Syrian city of Homs and is in neighbouring Lebanon, his partner says.

Syrian security forces are advancing on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Baba Amr in the city of Homs, an official says.

A British photographer wounded in shelling in the besieged Syrian city of Homs is carrying a “burden” of knowing people died to get him to safety, it was reported today.

A wounded Western journalist working for The Sunday Times escaped from Syria after being trapped for days in the besieged city of Homs, activist groups said.

Two wounded Western journalists escaped from Syria today after being trapped for days in the besieged central city of Homs, activist groups said.

Plans to evacuate two wounded journalists from a besieged Syrian town are beginning to take shape, French president Nicolas Sarkozy said today.

A judge conducting an inquiry into press standards in Britain today praised a award-winning foreign correspondent killed in Syria.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has blasted Russia and China’s opposition to UN Security Council action on Syria, calling it “despicable”.

Britain is to recognise the Syrian opposition as a “legitimate representative” of the country’s people, William Hague said today.

As tensions mounted further in Syria, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby last night appointed Kofi Annan, Ban's predecessor as joint special envoy on the Syrian crisis.

Warnings from Syrian activists of a humanitarian catastrophe in Homs grew more desperate today as government forces resumed shelling an opposition stronghold in the city.

Syrian forces murdered journalist Marie Colvin after pledging to kill “any journalist who set foot on Syrian soil”, it emerged last night.

The editor of the Sunday Times paid tribute to “extraordinary” foreign correspondent Marie Colvin after she was killed in the besieged Syrian city of Homs today.

Two Western journalists killed in Syria were today identified as French photojournalist Remi Ochlik and American reporter Marie Colvin.

The Sri Lankan government said it is unlikely to prosecute an American journalist who interacted with a banned rebel organisation.

An American journalist was wounded in a skirmish between Sri Lankan Government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in the northern battle field, police and hospital sources said today.