endorsement

comes in the wake of hurricane Sandy which so badly affected New York city. Mr Bloomberg said that the climate was changing and hurricane Sandy should compel all elected leaders to take immediate action.

Military censors in Israel have allowed the country's best-selling newspaper to publish a detailed account of the assassination">assassination of a senior figure in the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1988. Abu Jihad was shot dead in a raid on the PLO headquarters. Israel has always been blamed for his

assassination

but had never acknowledged it. Ronen Bergman is the journalist who broke the story.

I had the interview with the commander of the operation, and ever since we have been trying to publish the details of intelligence collection. I think that in the last six months, their position has changed, we were able to convince them to, at last, publish these details. Israelis were hoping that Abu Jihad was in charge of the uprising, they didn't understand that in fact this was a popular uprising, popular

intifada

.

The computer giant Apple has been ordered to rewrite a statement on its website relating to its dispute with its rival Samsung. Last month, judges in Britain ruled that Apple should publish a message making it clear that Samsung hadn't copied its iPad designs, but Samsung complained that the statement Apple had posted was inaccurate.

World news from the BBC.

A retired British businessman who fought