The former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has started his chemotherapy treatment for throat cancer. His doctors say his chances of being cured are very good. The cancer is in its early stages and hasn't spread to other parts of his body. The treatment is expected to last four months and will cause Lula to lose his hair and trademark beard.
A court in Russia has awarded two families $100,000 each in compensation after their daughters were accidentally switched at birth. The two families - one of which is Muslim, the other Russian Orthodox Christian - are considering buying properties close to each other as the children, who are now 12, have said they don't want to change families. Daniel Sandford reports from Moscow.
The two girls were born 15 minutes apart in December 1998 in the same hospital in the small town of Kopeysk. But unknown to their parents, they were swapped at birth accidentally. This only emerged when the woman who thought she was Irina's mother arranged a DNA test because her former husband was refusing to pay maintenance. The test showed that neither of them was her parent, and further research uncovered the hospital's mistake.
The dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London has become the second senior cleric to resign since anti-capitalist protesters set up camp at the cathedral two weeks ago. The Dean Graeme Knowles says that mounting criticism of how the situation had been handled had made his position untenable.