World News from the BBC

The trial has ended in Tehran of two American men accused of spying. It's exactly two years since the men, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal, were arrested. They said they had crossed the Iranian border

by mistake

while hiking in neighbouring Iraq. The Arabic language Al-Alam television is reporting that the verdicts on the two men will be announced in the coming days.

The second outbreak of violence in two weeks in the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang is reported to have killed at least 15 people. Eight of them died in the city of Kashgar when two men stabbed passersby. From Beijing, Martin Patience.

The series of attacks are the latest unrest to hit Xinjiang. Earlier this month, more than 20 people were killed in violent clashes with the police. The province is home to the Uighurs, a

largely

Muslim ethnic group native to the area. But many are unhappy about what they regard as the

repressive

rule of Beijing. They are also angered by the migration of the country's majority Han Chinese to the region.

The African Union has announced it'll hold a summit to pledge help for the victims of Somalia's famine, which the United Nations says has already claimed 10,000 lives. The statement comes after

considerable

criticism of the continent's leaders in the African media for failing to help. The UN says 12 million people urgently need help in the region.