World news from the BBC.
The Nato-led international force in Afghanistan ISAF says it's arrested Haji Mali Khan, one of the highest-ranking members of the Haqqani network blamed for the recent attack on the American embassy in Kabul. ISAF has called his arrest a significant
milestone
. In a separate development, Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari has called for the United States to resume serious dialogue with his country.
The Sri Lanka's sports minister says he's sacked his department's entire medical team after a series of drug scandals. He says he's investigating allegations of the ministerial unit itself provided the banned substance (S.P) has the details.
The sports minister says he has received a number of complaints from sports associations and sports personnel. Among those who have admitted to taking banned substance was national
cricketer
Upul Tharanga . At least another 5 national sports personnel have been banned. The head of the medical team, Dr x has refused to comment. The minister says there's an urgent need to strengthen the sports medical unity with, as he put it, a good administrator and specialist to prevent such incidents in future.
Denmark has become the first country in the world to introduce a fat tax, a surcharge on food that are high in
saturated
fat which is seen as harmful to health. Butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, oil and process food will all be taxed if they contain more than 2.3% saturated fat. Here's fh .