legitimacy

. The arrest warrants won't trouble Colonel Gaddafi

as long as

he remains in power in Tripoli.

A jury in America has found the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, guilty in his second corruption trial. He was accused of trying to sell President Obama's old Senate seat and other corruption charges. Mr Blagojevich denies any wrongdoing.

Aid workers in Sudan say the government has carried out more air attacks in South Kordofan state. Reports say 16 people were killed. South Kordofan is in north Sudan but is close to the border with the south, which becomes independent in two weeks' time. Our East Africa correspondent Will Ross reports.

Humanitarian sources told the BBC that five bombs were dropped from an Antonov aircraft on the village of Kurchi in South Kordofan. The BBC has seen disturbing photos of the dead, in some cases, their bodies torn apart by the bombs. The Sudanese government recently said it was disarming rebels there, people who once fought with southern soldiers but now live north of the border. Three weeks of aerial and ground attacks by the government forces have displaced more than 70,000 people.

State television in Iran has for the first time shown pictures of one of its underground missile launch

silo

s. An Iranian TV reporter was taken on a guided tour of a vault which contained a Shahab-3 missile, and an unidentified Revolutionary Guard officer told him similar silos could be found across the country. The Iranian Shahab-3 is thought to have a range of up to 2,000km.