Rescue workers in the Republic of Congo have found the wreckage of a plane that disappeared on Saturday while flying Australian mining company executives to an iron ore project. A government minister in Cameroon, where the plane took off, said there were no survivors. Will Ross reports.
The wreckage of the plane was found in a remote forested area of the Republic of Congo. Amongst the 11 passengers was the entire board of the Australian mining company, Sundance Resources. One of Australia's richest men, the mining tycoon, Ken Talbot, was also on the plane, as well as two British, two French and one American national. They'd all been visiting the Mbalam iron ore project which straddles Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea, and from where Sundance Resources is hoping to extract 35 million tons of iron ore a year.
The Iraqi minister for electricity has tendered his resignation after violent protests against widespread power cuts. Here's James Hodges.
The Minister Karim Waheed declared his resignation on Iraqi state television. Demonstrators demanding his departure and protesting against widespread electricity blackout have clashed with police in a number of Iraqi cities in recent days. Two demonstrators in the southern city of Basra were killed on Saturday.
That report from James Hodges.
BBC News.
The British government says the number of its soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the invasion of 2001 has reached 300. The death of the latest Royal Marine was announced on the day that nine NATO personnel were killed in bomb attacks and a helicopter crash in the south of Afghanistan. The latest deaths made this the deadliest month for the international coalition this year.