British prosecutors will not charge the computer hacker Gary McKinnon who is wanted him to the United States for breaking into military computers. The decision comes three months after the British Home Secretary blocked Mr MaKinnon extradition to the US on health grounds, because a medical report suggested he would likely to commit a suicide. Mr MaKinnon has more a form of autism.
Humanitarian Angecy in the east of the Democratic Republican of Congo say there has been a dramatic increase of the number of the displacing people following fighting last month between the M23 rebel group and government troops. The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said there were more than 800,000 displaced people in the province of North Kivu.
Nelson Mandela is spending a seventh night in hospital in Pretoria where he is having treatments for a lung infection. There had rumors in South Africa that the 94-year-0ld former president had returned to home. But an official statement said Mr Mandela has spent a comfortable 24 hours in hospital and would continue to receive treatment there.
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In one of the worst mass killings in recent US history, a gunman has shot dead 20 children and six adults at a primary school in the northeastern state of Connecticut. A police spokesman said the gunman himself was also died and another body had been found at a location connected with him. Paul Adams reports from Washington.