shantytowns

or favelas. Similar operations have been launched in more than 20 favelas ahead of the Football World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics two years later.

A party that wants to

split up

Belgium appears to have made widespread gains in local elections. With 8% the ballot counted the Flemish Nationalist Party has won more than 36% of the vote. The party's leader, Bart de Wever has won the race to become mayor of Antwerp, the Europe's largest port cities. Maddy Savage reports from Brussels.

The city has been run by socialist politicians for decades and Bart de Wever told the crowds he had never expected to do so well there. The NVA has long argued that the Dutch-speaking part of the Belgium - Flanders has spent too much money subsidizing Wallonia, the poorer French-speaking region in the south. He believes his party's success at a local level will now help him build a platform to take on the country socialist Prime Minister Elio di Rupo in the country's next national elections in 2014.

Israeli air strikes have killed two militants in central Gaza bringing to five the total number of Palestinians killed there since Saturday. The Israeli military said it targeted a rocket squad, one of the militants killed in the Israeli attacks has been identified as the Salafist leader, Hisham al-Saedni who was killed on Saturday night.

A court in Israel has ruled that

manuscripts

written by Franz Kafka must be transferred to the country's national library in Jerusalem The writer, who belonged to the German speaking Jewish community in Prague, left his unpublished work to his friend Max Brod asking him to burn them after his death which occurred in 1924. However Max Brod ignored his friend's request.