And latest we have is: The Turkish authorities have released the Syrian plane and allowed it to resume its flight. But they say they will keep some (of) their equipment they found in this cargo for further examination. Turkish officials give no details of what they found.

An Egyptian court has

acquitted

senior Mubarak-era figures accused of orchestrating an attack against protesters during last year's uprising. Jon Leyne reports.

It was one of the most notorious days of the revolution. Supporters of the former President Mubarak charged the demonstrators holding a vigilant Tahrir Square using horses and camels. Clashes then broke out and through the night, unidentified gunmen shot the opposition protesters. Some of them, most senior figures of the former President Mubarak regime, including the speakers of the two houses of Parliament, ministers and businessmen, were accused of organizing the violence, but now they've all been acquitted.

President Obama has condemned the Taliban for shooting a 14-year-old Pakistani school girl in the head; he called it a

barbaric

and disgusting act.

World News from the BBC

The former head of an American military team in Libya has told a US Congressional Committee that the consulate in Benghazi where the American ambassador Chris Stephens and three other Americans died last month didn't have the necessary forces to protect itself. The attack has become a hotly disputed issue in the run-up to next month's presidential election.