Twenty-three prisoners have been killed during a battle between rival drug gangs at a prison in Mexico. Officials said that the fighting broke out between inmates and new arrivals during breakfast at the prison in the northern state of Durango. The state has become a battleground between the Sinaloa cartel, which controls drug routes to the United States along the west coast of Mexico, and the rival Gulf cartel from the other side of the country.
Pope Benedict has summoned the heads of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland back to the Vatican to discuss recent revelations of widespread child abuse by Irish priests. From Rome, Duncan Kennedy has this report.
A Vatican spokesman said Pope Benedict would meet the bishops in mid-February to discuss the Ryan and Murphy reports. They were published last year. The Murphy inquiry uncovered systematic abuse of children by priests in the Dublin area stretching back 30 years. The Murphy report detailed abuse against thousands of children in orphanages and schools. A number of bishops have resigned in Ireland following their publication. Pope Benedict has already had one meeting with senior church figures where he expressed his indignation.
And in Germany, the international terminal at Munich airport has been reopened after a security alert when a man, whose laptop computer was being checked for explosives, ran off with it. Security equipment had indicated there might have been explosives in the computer. The terminal was evacuated and more than 1,000 police officers searched for the man, but didn't find him. All the passengers then had to go through security again before the police gave the all clear.