There are signs that the crisis surrounding next month's Commonwealth Games in India may be easing. Within the past hour, the England Games Association has announced that the team will be travelling to Delhi. It's one of several countries to express concerns over security and reports of unfit accommodation. The decision by the English association followed assurances from the Indian authorities and after hundreds of extra workers were drafted in to get the athletes' village ready. Other team managers have spoken of tangible progress.

Security forces in Colombia say they have killed a military leader of the Farc rebel group. Reports said the leader, known as Mono Jojoy, died in an air raid. Mono Jojoyreports from Colombia.

The Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos described the death of the man, known as Mono Jojoy, as the greatest blow to the Farc in their 46-year history. Within the rebel movement, he was a revered figure and the Farc's top general, who commanded the rebels' most powerful fighting division, the Eastern Bloc. In a large-scale operation, the security forces bombed a Farc camp in the mountains of La Macarena in the eastern province of Meta but were unable to confirm the death of the guerrilla leader until the army fought its way through the rebel units, which were protecting a base.

There has been fierce fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu, where Islamist militants have attacked possessions held by government forces and African Union peacekeepers. Health officials said 19 people were killed and more than 80 injured in the clashes. Some of the heaviest fighting was in the main Bakara market in south Mogadishu. The head of the ambulance service said most of those killed were civilians.