World News from the BBC.
The Mexican authorities say they have recovered a total of 77 bodies from an abandoned mine shaft that appears to have been used as a mass grave by drugs gangs. Only six of the bodies found at the silver mine in Guerrero State have so far been identified. One was the director of a local prison. Police believe drugs traffickers
conceal
their victims in the mine over an extended period.
A US army intelligence analyst has been arrested
on suspicion of
leaking
classified
military videos and documents to a website that campaigns for freedom of information. From Washington, here is David Willis.
Army Specialist Bradley Manning was arrested after allegedly
boast
ing to a former computer hacker in an online conversation that he'd leaked video over US military helicopter strike to the website WikiLeaks.
The website says the video shows an Apache Helicopter attack in Baghdad in 2007 which claimed the lives of several innocent civilians.
WikiLeaks describes itself as a nonprofit organisation funded by human rights campaigners,
investigative
journalists and the general public.
Reports are coming of an explosion in a gas pipeline in Texas. At least six people are thought to have been hurt in the blast which happened in Hood County near the city of Dallas. Details are still coming in.
The veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas has retired after remarks she made about Israel and the Jewish people were met with the