The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has said it's banning a popular method of transferring money via mobile phones in the areas it controls. The group believes the system encourages Western interference in the Somali economy. Here is Will Ross.
Its decision will not go down well with a growing number of Somalis who find sending and receiving money via mobile phone a safer option than walking around with cash. Somalia's transitional government has been swift to condemn the ban. It said the action had been taken after the money transfer firms had refused to allow their service to be used for what it called terrorist fundraising.
Football's world governing body Fifa says it's asked its ethics committee to take immediate steps to discover if members of the Fifa executive committee have violated its code of ethics. Two committee members have been accused by a British newspaper of offering to sell their votes in selecting hosts for future World Cups. Both men have denied wrongdoing.
A database cataloguing art looted by the Nazis from Jewish families has gone online in the hope that some of the art can be returned to descendants of the original owners. Among the 20,000 items in the database are works by Picasso, Chagall, Monet and Klimt. The vice president of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Greg Schneider, said museums, art dealers and auction houses should check the record to see if any works they held were stolen.