Medical workers in the city of Aden (say southern Yemen) say two explosions of there have killed at least one person and injured eight others. The blasts within minutes of each other struck a residential area of Aden, near the grounds of a local football team.
Police in Hungary have arrested the managing director of the aluminium plant at the centre of a massive chemical spillage which has devastated several towns and villages in the west of the country. The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced the arrest and said that the company would be temporarily nationalised, and those responsible should bear the financial consequences. A government spokesman, Anna Nagy, explained why such tough action was being taken.
"This is a human fault; this is a human mistake. It was not a natural catastrophe, and the people who operated the plant need to be responsible for what happened."
Rescuers have found the body of the last person still missing, taking the total number killed to eight.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has intervened in a long-running battle for control of Iran's biggest university, paving the way for it to be taken over by the government. Ayatollah Khamenei ruled that the endowment of Azad University in Tehran, which has 1.5 million students and tens of millions of dollars in assets, was religiously illegitimate. Until now, the university has been a centre of support for the former President Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's main rivals.