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In this image taken from Egyptian State television on August 3, former president Hosni Mubarak is wheeled on a gurney into a holding cell in a Cairo courtroom.
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Egyptians loyal to former president Hosni Mubarak strike a foe during the trial of Mubarak and other officials from the ousted government in Cairo on August 3. The T-shirt worn by the man at center reads in Arabic "I am Egyptian and refuse the humiliation of the leader of the nation."
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Riot police are seen outside the police academy where the trial of Egypt's former President Hosni Mubarak will take place, in Cairo on Aug. 3.
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A supporter of Hosni Mubarak reads the Koran outside the police academy where Mubarak's trial will take place, in Cairo on Aug. 3. Mubarak left hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday to travel to Cairo where he will be tried for conspiring to kill protesters, the first Arab ruler to be put in the dock since uprisings swept the region.
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An anti-Mubarak protester holds a noose outside the police academy in Cairo on Aug. 3.
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Carlos Antonio Carias Lopez gestures after being sentenced to 6,060 years in prison on Tuesday, August 02 in Guatemala City. Carias Lopez was sentenced for the murder of 252 farmers in 1982, the killing was one of bloodiest slaughters during the 1960-96 civil war and ocurred in the Dos Erres village, Guatemala.
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Cristina Alfaro Mejia, whose husband and daughter were killed by soldiers during a massacre in the community of Dos Erres in 1982, holds a rose while waiting to the sentence in Guatemala City, Tuesday.
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Relatives of people killed by soldiers during a massacre in the community of Dos Erres in 1982, celebrate at the end of a trial in Guatemala City, Tuesday.
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Australian woman in Sydney 'bomb' drama
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Australian bomb-disposal teams have surrounded a house in Sydney, amid reports that a young woman has had an explosive device strapped to her body.
Police said in a statement that they were called to the house in the suburb of Mosman by an 18-year-old woman.
They said officers were in the house, where they were "examining the device and supporting the woman".
Assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch told Australian media the woman was unable to move away from the device.
"We are still treating the suspicious package as live," Mr Murdoch was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"I can't confirm whether it is strapped to the woman involved, but she is still in the vicinity of the device."
When asked if the woman could move away from the bomb, he said: "No, she can't get away from it."
Emergency crews have evacuated nearby houses in Mosman, which is one of Sydney's wealthiest suburbs.
Several streets have been cordoned off, and ambulances and fire crews are at the scene.
Roger White, a reporter with 2UE Radio in Sydney, said police were appealing for local residents to come forward if they had seen anyone in the area who should not have been there.
"We understand she had this device placed around her neck, with a ransom note attached to it, by someone who burst into her home and then took off," he said.
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Southampton cocaine haul 'is UK's biggest'
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The UK's largest ever seizure of a Class A drug has been made from a luxury yacht in Southampton, the UK Border Agency has said.
Officials found 1.2 tonnes of cocaine with a street value of up to £300m in the £1m yacht two months ago.
The 90% pure drugs were so well hidden in the 65ft pleasure cruiser, the Louise, it took six days to find them.
UK Border Agency found the drugs in a specially built compartment
They had originated in the Caribbean and were en route to the Netherlands. Dutch police have arrested six men.
They are thought to be an organised crime gang.
French authorities were alerted to the Louise while it was in the Caribbean in May and it was then tracked to Southampton, on its way to Holland.
Officials spent six days searching the vessel and found the drugs packed in a specially-designed compartment beneath the boat's bathing platform, UKBA said.
It is understood the cocaine, which originated in South America, was packed inside the boat while it was in Venezuela.
The average purity of cocaine seized at the UK border is 63%, officials said.
The haul is estimated to be worth about £50m wholesale and up to £300m on the streets.
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The 90% pure drugs were so well hidden it took six days to find them
Two 44-year-olds were arrested in Amsterdam, a 60-year-old was held in Meppel, a 32-year-old and 34-year-old were arrested in Heusden, while a 27-year-old was held in Waalwijk.
A total of 100,000 euros (£87,300), two Harley Davidson motorcycles, two firearms, a silencer and a quantity of ecstasy were also seized.
Brodie Clark, head of the UKBA's border force, said: "This has been an enormous seizure of cocaine. This is the largest we have on record."
Asked about how the drugs were hidden, he added: "It was ingenious, it was difficult to find. Skilful people spent a number of days looking for it."
Immigration Minister Damian Green said: "UK Border Agency staff have shown vigilance, dedication and determination to uncover this shipment."
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Malaysia's 8TV pulls 'racist' Ramadan adverts
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About a quarter of Malaysia's population are ethnic Chinese
A Malaysian TV channel has withdrawn a series of public-service messages about the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, after viewers complained they were racist.
One of the adverts showed an ethnic Chinese girl acting in a rude manner towards Muslims, followed by a message saying: "Do not be loud or obnoxious."
In another of the adverts the girl is wearing a vest-top and is told: "Do not wear tight and revealing clothes."
The station, 8TV, apologised for any "inconvenience or uneasiness" caused.
"It is with much regret that there were misinterpretations in the PSA [public service announcement] that were meant to serve only as a message of respect for the Ramadan month," the channel said in a message on its Facebook page.
"The message was not meant to offend anyone, race or creed in any way. This is an honest mistake involving a very small amount of humour that was misinterpreted which led to concerns."
The station, which aims largely at Malaysia's sizeable Chinese minority, pulled the messages from its schedules and also moved quickly to delete them from video-sharing websites.
Its Facebook page was inundated with critical messages.
One web user, Jules Yap, said the channel had shown "disgusting, arrogant behaviour".
"Can't believe how arrogant the higher-ups in 8TV are, coming out with a defensive, insincere 'apology' which at the same time blames the viewers for misinterpreting the offensive PSA ads, when the ads are clearly in poor taste," he said.
Boon Hun said: "Gosh, you keep using the word misinterpretations, like it's our fault!"
Ethnic Chinese make up about one quarter of Malaysia's population.
They often complain of being discriminated against by the country's laws, which give ethnic Malays preferential treatment.
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Russia nursery bomb blast injures five-year-old girl
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The Russian interior ministry has ordered police to check all schools and nurseries after a five-year-old girl was injured by a parcel bomb.
The device - which arrived at a nursery in the far eastern city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur - only partially exploded.
The girl was taken to hospital with severe burns to her hands and eyes. She opened a gift box tied with a ribbon.
It contained explosives equivalent to 7kg (15lb) of TNT, but failed to fully explode. It also contained nails.
A 27-year-old man from the city has been arrested and detectives say he has admitted the attack.
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Paedophile Derek Slade worked at schools in Africa and India
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A paedophile exploited his friendship with a prominent politician to get a job which he then used to gain access to vulnerable children abroad.
Derek Slade, who set up a school in Asia and worked at one in Africa, stole a dead boy's identity to hide his past.
The findings are featured in a BBC documentary by journalist Roger Cook.
An Abuse of Trust is being screened almost 30 years after the veteran reporter first exposed Slade's sadistic activities at a school in Suffolk.
The revelations about the headmaster's excessive use of violence at St George's in Great Finborough were broadcast as part of Radio 4's Checkpoint programme in 1982.
He hit boys with objects including a slipper and a wooden bat, leaving many with bruises.
Slade was forced to resign soon afterwards, but was not jailed until 2010 when it emerged that he had also sexually abused pupils.
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Slade built a school in India using money he obtained from a Leicester charity
The 61-year-old, from Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was found guilty of more than 50 sex assaults and beatings, as well as possession of 4,000 indecent images of children.
He was sentenced to 21 years.
But new evidence shows that in the intervening years, Slade used his connections to people such as Derek Sawyer - former leader of Islington Council - to help him get a job as director of education at a school in Africa.
The job was not supposed to involve contact with children, according to Mr Sawyer, who said he was unaware that Slade was a paedophile.
The two men, friends in their school days, set up an organisation called International British Education Projects (IBEP), which won a contract to run four schools in Swaziland.
Slade also successfully bid for £85,000 in funding from a Leicester charity to set up a school for the victims of India's Gujarat earthquake.
While working at a school in Swaziland, he used the pseudonym Edward Marsh - an identity he had falsely acquired using the birth certificate of an eight-year-old boy buried at a Derbyshire cemetery.
The six-month BBC investigation has revealed that pupils in both countries were abused.
The Swaziland school's doctor told the programme he had seen evidence of "excessive corporal punishment and fondling", while children in India said they were beaten and photographed.
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Former Labour councillor Mr Sawyer, who has been chairman of the London Courts Board and director of the youth offending charity Catch 22, said he had been led to believe Slade had legally changed his name.
He also said he was kept "in ignorance" about the violent disciplinarian's true nature.
"I was shocked by Derek Slade's conviction for sexual abuse but I am glad that justice has been done for his many victims," he said.
"Like many others, I have been taken in by Mr Slade and used by him. I knew nothing of any allegations of sexual abuse by Mr Slade, nor did I know that he should not have been put in a position of trust with children.
"I have had intermittent contact with Mr Slade over the past 40 years, which I now regret, but if I had known or believed that he was a risk to children I would obviously have had no association with him whatever."
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Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe land seizures 'cost $12bn'
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The seizure of most of Zimbabwe's white-owned land has cost nearly $12bn (£7bn) in lost production since 2000, the Commercial Farmers' Union says.
CFU head Deon Theron said agricultural production had fallen by 70%.
He also said that President Robert Mugabe and his family now "owned" 39 farms.
Mr Mugabe has always said that the land seizures were needed to correct colonial imbalances and that beneficiaries would only get one farm.
His officials have not yet commented on the report.
Mr Theron blamed the land seizures for the collapse of Zimbabwe's economy over the past decade, saying it had destroyed the country's tax base, with most of the economy now in the informal sector.
"If the aim of the land reform was to evict whites and replace them with blacks, then it can be deemed a success," Mr Theron said.
"However, if the aim was that it should benefit the majority and not only a chosen few, then it has been a failure."
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Cleveland Police Chief Constable Sean Price arrested
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Sean Price became chief constable of Cleveland Police in 2003
Cleveland Police's chief constable and his deputy have been arrested in an investigation into allegations of fraud and corruption, the BBC understands.
Chief Constable Sean Price and his deputy Derek Bonnard are believed to be two of the three held as part of the probe involving the force.
The inquiry centres on people associated with Cleveland Police Authority.
It is being conducted by Warwickshire Police Chief Constable Keith Bristow.
He is also being assisted by senior detectives from North Yorkshire Police.
Warwickshire Police said two men and a woman had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in a public office, fraud by abuse of position and corrupt practice.
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Saudi prince wins libel damages over Independent story
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Saudi Arabia's interior minister has accepted undisclosed damages over an article in The Independent newspaper accusing him of ordering police to shoot and kill unarmed protesters.
The newspaper accepted the "order" it reported was in fact a fake.
Its publishers, Independent Print Ltd, also offered "sincere apologies" to Prince Nayef Bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud at London's High Court.
Prince Nayef has said he will give the "substantial" damages to charity.
The article was written by the Independent's Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk, who also offered his apologies, and published on 15 April.
Rupert Earle, appearing for the prince, told Mrs Justice Nicola Davies the untruthful allegations arose after Saudi Shia activists sought to organise a demonstration on 11 March.
It was described as the "Hunayn Revolution" after a battle fought by the Prophet Muhammed in 630 AD.
Several websites featured an order allegedly issued by Prince Nayef, who is second in line to the Saudi throne, and addressed to police chiefs before the demonstration
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, attends a parliament session during which lawmakers are expected to pass the vote of confidence for four new ministers, in Tehran on August 3. Ahmadinejad's candidate for oil minister, Rostam Qasemi, is seen in a light blue suit at upper right
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Workers operate a crane to lift a turbine rotary wheel, weighing 144.5 tons, to place it onto a barge for its further transportation to the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station at a river port on the Yenisei River, near Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on August 3.
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Islamabad, Pakistan: A man buys food from a street vendor after Ramadan fasting
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Guatemala City, Guatemala: A woman celebrates outside court at the end of the civil war massacre trial
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Moscow, Russia: A ballerina takes a drink during the Cuban National Ballet gala concert at the Bolshoi theatre
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Madrid, Spain: Police detain a protester as they try to dismantle a demonstration at the Puerta del Sol
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Managua, Nicaragua: A child dressed in honour of the patron saint Santo Domingo de Guzman
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London, UK: Rows of beer pumps during the Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court exhibition centre - a torturous picture indeed for an expat.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: Asian and Arabs workers crowd the food counter at a mosque as they break their Ramadan fast
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Istanbul, Turkey: Dervishes perform at the Galata whirling dervish hall
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Hosni Mubarak appears in court - more pics
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Relatives of those killed during the Tahrir Square demonstrations rally outside Cairo's police academy
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Officers on patrol outside the police academy in Cairo
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The former dictator appears to be picking his nose while in court
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A protester shouts slogans against Hosni Mubarak outside the police academy
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Former Egyptian interior minister Habib el-Adly in the dock
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Clashes between pro- and anti-Mubarak demonstrators outside the police academy
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Family members of former soldier Reyes Collin Gualip (C, back facing camera), on trial for accusations of massacre during the civil war, embrace after his sentence was read at the Supreme Court in Guatemala City, August 2, 2011.
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Young men react during the funeral ceremony for Mona Abdninur, 18, in Hoeybraeten, near Oslo, August 2, 2011.
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Masses of seaweed is cleared away along the French coastline at Saint Michel-en-Greve, Northern Brittany, August 2, 2011. The mysterious death of 36 wild boars on France's northwestern coast baffled authorities after tests suggested large amounts of rotting seaweed strewn across beaches may not be to blame.
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A man sleeps near tents at a camp set up on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard calling for lower property prices in Israel, August 2, 2011.
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Somali refugee boys eat porridge during break time at the Liban integrated academy at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, August 2, 2011.
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Workers remove flowers and candles, placed in front of Oslo Cathedral in memory of those killed in July's bomb and shooting attack, August 3, 2011.
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More Legal Drama for Casey Anthony
Lawyers for Casey Anthony, who was recently found not guilty of killing her young daughter in a sensational trial, are looking to block a judge's order requiring the woman serve a year of probation in Orlando for check fraud.
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You're Outta Here
Officers detain an "indignant" protester on Tuesday while police try to dismantle a demonstration at Madrid's Puerta del Sol Square -- the birthplace of a nationwide protest against the suffering caused by Spain's economic blight.
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US Stock Market Takes a Hit
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 265.87 points to finish at 11,866.62, dropping below the 12,000 level.
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Man Jumps Over White House Fence
A Secret Service officer patrols the grounds of the White House on Tuesday after a homeless man jumped the fence along the North Lawn. Authorities said the intruder, identified as James D. Crudup, was quickly taken into custody.
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Say Hello to Vesta
This NASA image shows the asteroid Vesta from about 3,200 miles above its surface. The picture was taken on July 24 by the Dawn spacecraft, which slipped into orbit around the massive rock on July 15.
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Soaked in San Juan City
Residents walk through a street flooded by Typhoon Muifa in San Juan City, the Philippines, Tuesday.
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Clashes Erupt in Egypt
On Wednesday, a supporter of Hosni Mubarak, who's currently on trial for murder, throws a chair amid clashes between loyalists and foes of the former Egyptian president on the outskirts of Cairo.
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Silvio Berlusconi says Italy banks 'solid and solvent'
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said the country will not be drawn into the debt crisis engulfing Europe.
Addressing Parliament on Wednesday, he said Italy's banks are "solid and solvent" and the economy was "solid".
His comments come after heavy losses on the Milan stock market and a sharp rise in yields on Italian bonds.
The eurozone's third largest economy is about to introduce a 43bn-euro ($62bn; £38bn) austerity package.
Mr Berlusconi said Italy "has solid economic foundations" and called the recent fall in bond yields a "crisis of faith in the international markets".
Italy has so far managed to avoid sovereign debt problems, despite having one of the highest debt-to-GDP ratios in the eurozone at 120%.
But the economy is twice as big as Greece, Portugal and the Irish Republic combined, so a bailout would probably be unaffordable.
Mr Berlusconi has been criticised for his silence on Italy's economic problems, amid concerns about whether the government will introduce the full austerity package.
