consensus

at a meeting at the United Nations in New York. All the ICC's current investigations are in Africa, but several of its leaders have complained that Africa has been unfairly targeted. Anna Holligan reports from The Hague.

She's been working as a deputy for the last seven years. Now Fatou Bensouda is preparing to take on the highest role within the International Criminal Court. Speaking at the UN Assembly of State Parties in New York, she thanked her colleagues for

having faith in

her abilities and promised to continue working to achieve the court's ambition of ending

impunity

for the most serious crimes against humanity. The new chief prosecutor has already stated she will not change the established approach of going after war criminals regardless of where they come from.

The parliament in Tunisia has elected a new president. The former opposition leader Moncef Marzouki from the secular Congress for the Republic party was appointed. It follows parliamentary elections in October after the uprising in Tunisia which ousted its former long- standing leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in January this year.

A 93-year-old Belgian-Congolese nurse who saved hundreds of wounded American soldiers during World War II has received a

belated

award for valour from the US army. Augusta Chiwy volunteered to help at a medical centre at the height of the Battle of the Bulge in the town of Bastogne.