BBC News with Nick Kelly
The Hungarian government says it will take more than a year and cost tens of millions of dollars to clear up the damage caused by toxic sludge, which burst from a reservoir. Four people were killed and more than 100 injured after the mud from an industrial plant engulfed villages near the town of Ajkai. The Hungarian Environment Minister Zoltan Illes told the BBC that the spill covered an area 20km long by 10km wide. Mr Illes described the scale of the disaster.
"Unfortunately, never happened on this planet earth a similar accident of this magnitude and this size caused by red mud. So according to our estimation, minimum one and half years is needed and a really vast amount of money to clean up the area."
A Pakistani-American who tried to set off a bomb in Times Square in New York has been sentenced to life in prison. The man, Faisal Shahzad, told the court in the city that he was defending Islam. From New York, Laura Trevelyan reports.
Faisal Shahzad tried to set off a car bomb in the packed Times Square on a warm May evening. But his bomb didn't detonate, and he was dramatically arrested on the runway, trying to flee the country two days later. Shahzad had trained with the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan and had received money from them to build his bomb. He said he wanted to attack the US because of the American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. US prosecutors say Shahzad showed no remorse for his attempted attack, only pride.