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Sixteen members of a

breakaway

group from the Amish community in the US state of Ohio have been convicted of hate crimes for a series of attacks in which they forcibly cut the beards and hair of fellow Amish. The group's leader and self staff bishop Samuel Mullet ordered the assaults on nine people as punishment for questioning his authority. BBC correspondent says this were deeply humiliating attacks in the community where violence is uncommon.

Two suicide bombers have

blown themselves up

in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least 14 people. A former editor of Somali national television, as well as two other journalists, and two policemen were among those killed. David Bamford reports.

A security official in Mogadishu said the two suicide attackers breached the zone very close to the presidential palace

detonating

their bombs in a just outside restaurant and theatre frequented by journalists and some politicians. A spokesman for the Islamist group al-Shabab said that, while they didn't order the attack, it had been carried out by their supporters angry about the intervention of foreign troops in Somalia.

India has formally implemented its plans to open the country's retail sector to global supermarket chains defying protests from opposition groups and local traders. The government notification came on the day of strikes in many parts of India against the plans announced last week. Businesses and offices remain shut in many cities and railway tracks were blocked in some places. The government says the reforms are essential to revive the slowing economy. But critics say the changes threaten the livelihood of millions.