HW BBC News with David Austin
The Islamic cooperation organization has pledged $350m towards the relief effort for famine victims in Somalia. The 57 Muslim nations meeting in Istanbul heard the Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the wealthy of the world.
This is a limus test not only for Somalia but also for the whole of humanity. Here the conference, every civilization, every state, rich people , G20 countries, countries with 20, 30 and $40,000 in personal income, everybody is going through a limus test for humanity. Thousands of people have rallied in the center of the Indian capital Delhi in support of the anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare. Huge crowds also gather outside the jail where he is being held. Sanjoy Majumder witnessed the protests.
At Delhi 's iconic India Gate, thousands of people congregated, shouting slogans and holding placards demanding that Anna Hazare be freed and that the government act on corruption. Similar demonstrations have been held in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Calcutta and a host of other cities. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accused him of trying to circumvent democracy and trying to impose his will on the government. But the spontaneous outbreak of public support is something of deep concern for the government.
A three years' struggle for control of the Anglican church in Zimbabwe has intensified with a high court hardly in control of all church property to the excommunicated former Bishop Harare Nolbert Kunonga. One Anglican priest has already been evicted from his home by the former bishop's supporters, who've also used violence to break up church services occasionally with police support. Our religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott reports. The power struggle began in 2008 when Bishop Kunonga unilaterally withdrew the Zimbabwean church from its association with other Anglican churches in central Africa in protest, he claimed, against his toleration of homosexuality. Bishop Kunonga was sacked from his job and excommunicated, but evidently with the backing of the Zimbabwean authorities has retained partial control of the church. Now Zimbabwe's high court has made Nolbert Kunonga custodian of all church buildings, pending further court action. There has been a sharp increase in a number of African migrants arriving in Italy in over-crowded boats run by people smugglers in the Mediterranean. Officials say that more than 3,000 people have reached the small Italian island of Lampedusa, which lies 200km from the Tunisian coast. The latest arrivals are believed to be included Somalis and Nigerians as well as North Africans fleeing the violence in Libya. World News from the BBC A former member of parliament and senior member of Pakistan's governing party, the PPP, has been killed in a drive-by shooting in the southern city of Karachi. At least 12 other people also died in the attack on customers at a roadside cafe, who are just broken their fast for Ramadan. The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he plans to nationalize the country's gold sector. Mr. Chavez said he would issue a decree in a coming days which would nationalize gold extraction and processing. He said he'll use the gold to increase Venezuela's international reserves. The country has some of the continent's largest gold deposits but it's not a major producer. Venezuela's steal works, oil services and banking have already been nationalized. The British Paralympic cycling champion Simon Richardson has suffered multiple injuries after an apparent hit-and-run accident. Mr. Richardson, who won gold and silver medals in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, was struck while he was out cycling in south Wales. Colette Hume reports from Cardiff.
Police say Simon Richardson was hit by a white van while cycling on his specially adapted bike. He suffered multiple injuries and was air-lifted to the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff. The 44-year-old won two golds and a silver in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, including the first British gold medal. He set two world records and was awarded the MBE for services to sport. Mr. Richardson has been in training for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Colette Hume
Russia has unveiled its first stealth fight jets during a visit by the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to an air show near Moscow. The Sukhoi T-50, designed to be undetectable by radar, made its maiden flight a year and a half ago but it's been kept secrets until now. Russian and Indian experts are still working on the final version of the plane, which is expected to be ready in five years.
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