This is the latest World News from the BBC here in London.
Israel has rejected international calls for an outside investigation into its assault on an aid flotilla that tried to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed in the incident. Andrew North reports from Jerusalem.
Israel is under intense world-wide pressure to accept an external investigation into its deadly raid on the Gaza aid ships. The United Nations Human Rights Council has already ordered a fact-finding mission to start work. But the Israeli government says its military has begun its own investigation, and there's no need for any outside inquiry. Demands for one showed a double-standard towards Israel, said a spokesman, which no other country has to meet. When American or British troops have been accused of killing civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan, he said, it's their countries that investigate, not an international body.
The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Turkey has been stabbed to death. Bishop Luigi Padovese, who was 63, was attacked at his home in the southern province of Hatay. He died on his way to hospital. Police have arrested the bishop's driver. The provincial governor said that the incident was not politically motivated and the suspect had mental health problems.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned against any premature response to Wednesday's mass shooting in northwest England, when 12 people were killed by a lone gunman. Mr Cameron said the murders would inevitably spark a debate about Britain's gun laws, but they were already among the toughest in the world. Ownership of handguns and automatic weapons was outlawed after previous British shootings.