The head of the World Trade Organization Pascal Lamy called it a truly historic moment. Pointing out that many officials involved in the original proceedings had long since retired. Latin American banana growers claimed that EU import tariffs designed to protect farmers in former European colonies in the West Indies and Africa unfairly discriminated against their products.

Search and rescue efforts are still under way in Guatemala following a huge earthquake near the Mexican border on Wednesday. Around 50 people were killed and scores more were injured. Our central America correspondent Will Grant reports.

Rescue workers and fire-fighters worked through the night to free trapped victims including ten members of a single family in a small town of San Cristobal Cucho. Electricity remains cut off to much of the region, medical supplies are beginning to arrive in the province, but there are still a shortage of basic necessities and stuff.

Ten Columbian farm workers have been killed by unidentified gunmen in one of the worst targeted killings in the country in years. One of the survivors described how three armed men approached the foreman at the farm in Antioquia province, and asked if the farm owner have been paying protection money, they then opened fire and killed nine men and one woman.

The chief prosecutor of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in the Hague Serge Brammertz has rejected the assertion by Serbia's President that there was no genocide in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war. In an interview with radio Free Europe, Mr Brammertz has said Tomislav Nikolic's statement contradicted the international court's ruling, the genocide had taken place in 1995.