A rare protest by thousands of members of Portugal's armed forces has taken place in Lisbon. The demonstration was against unprecedented cuts in military pay and benefits and reductions in a number of military personnel. Alison Roberts reports from Lisbon.

There were no shouted slogans at this rare military protest - that's prohibited by law, as is wearing uniforms at such events. But there was anger at government proposals to

decimate

armed forces numbers and cut back wages and promotions. For now at least, this is just one more group in society angered by policies being implemented under Portugal's bailout.

Officials in Colombia say the mayor of the town of Toribio in the southwest of the country and nine other people have been injured in a bomb attack. Three of the injured were police officers. The security forces say the device was planted in the town centre by the country's largest left-wing rebel group, the Farc. The leader of the Farc, Alfonso Cano, was killed in a shoot-out with the military last week in the same region.

The Nicaraguan navy says it has killed four alleged drug dealers and seized more than a tonne of cocaine from a

speedboat

after a six-hour chase through Caribbean waters. Military officials say three Nicaraguans and a Colombian were killed in a shoot-out as the navy closed in on the boat.

Police in Bolivia have detained a woman who hid inside an all-male prison to avoid being arrested for fraud. Prosecutors say a member of her gang, who'd already been arrested, called the woman to warn her police were looking for her. She visited him in jail and hid for four days.