World News from the BBC
The government in Bangladesh has put its health and livestock officials on high alert after an
outbreak
of anthrax spread to more districts in the north and west. Five districts are now affected, and more than 320 people have been infected by skin anthrax which causes lesions. Livestock department officials have their leave cancelled and have been told to monitor the situation.
It's exactly a month since a rockfall trapped 33 miners deep underground in Chile. Their relatives have marked the occasion at the site where work to bore a rescue shaft to the miners is continuing. From there, Gideon Long reports.
One month on and relatives of the miners marked the occasion when a rock collapse at the mine cut them off from their loved ones. On a hillside,
overlook
ing the site, the Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golborne read out the names of all 33 men. The miners have survived on a
meagre
diet, but there is still a long way from being rescued. Engineers have drilled through nearly 50 metres of rock, but they still have another 650 to go. So they are launching plan B. Another drill is being assembled on a different part of the mountain, and it's due to begin work later on Sunday.
A British soldier has been killed by militants in southern Afghanistan. The army said he was part of an operation fighting insurgents in Helmand province when his unit was attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade. Another soldier wounded days ago in Afghanistan has