The international police agency Interpol says more than 140 victims of child trafficking have been rescued in the West African state of Gabon. Interpol said they were from 10 different countries but did not specify which ones. Richard Hamilton reports.
Interpol said teams of officials carried out checks at markets, stores in the capital Libreville where children were doing various jobs, such as carrying heavy goods and selling products. Forty-four people have been arrested in the operation, thought to be the first of its kind in Central Africa. Other anti-child trafficking raids have also taken place in Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. Child labour, which is used in everything from domestic service to cotton picking, is not a new phenomenon in the region, and anti-slavery groups have long campaigned against it.
The President of the Philippines, Benigno Aquino, has defended the design of the country's new banknotes, which feature maps strewn with errors and a native parrot with a wrong-coloured beak. Here's Vivien Marsh.
President Aquino said some artistic licence had been taken with the design of the banknotes, and that if he wanted to find a place, he'd use GPS or a map. The important thing, he said, was that the bills were more difficult to fake. The stylised map on six different banknotes misplaces several tourist attractions and apparently excludes the Batanes Islands altogether.
And Spanish police have recovered all but one of 35 artworks stolen from a warehouse near Madrid last month. They include a sketch by Pablo Picasso and pieces by the sculptor Eduardo Chillida valued together at more than $6m.