World News from the BBC
The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, says two men have
confessed to
Monday's bomb attack on the Minsk metro, which killed 12 people and wounded more than 200. Both men are from Belarus but have not been named. In a televised address, Mr Lukashenko praised the speed of the investigation.
"It has taken the security agency and the police only 24 hours to conduct a brilliant operation after following up leads. The perpetrators were detained without noise, chatter or shots being fired. The main thing is that we know who committed this attack and how. At the moment, we do not know why, but we will know this soon. This is our main
objective
."
A group of American weapons experts has arrived in Russia to carry out the first inspections under the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty between Moscow and Washington that was inaugurated in February. The treaty requires both countries to cut their deployed nuclear warheads to
no more than
1,550 over the next seven years.
Shares in one of America's largest corporations, General Electric, fell sharply for a brief period as investors reacted to what turned out to be a hoax press release.
The hoax was work of activists wanting to draw attention to GE's use of tax avoidance measures. Here's our business reporter Mark Gregory.
General Electric shares slumped after the Associated Press news agency reported a statement apparently from the company saying it planned to