People in Belarus have been voting to elect a new Parliament. The two main opposition parties boycott the election, saying it would't be free and fair under President Alexander Lukashenko who has governed since 1994. The opposition leader Stanislau Shushkevich says he thinks the election results have been decided in advance.

The counting will be done by those people who know in advance what results they should return, and they will ensure that this happens. There are no democratically minded people at any level of the election commission, nor are there any representatives of opposition parties which comprise only 1% of all the candidates able to stand for a election. This is a joke.

A human rights group in Honduras says a prominent lawyer who represented peasants in disputes with large land owners has been shot dead at a wedding in the capital Tegucigalpa. Reports say the lawyer Antonia Trejo was killed by unknown gunmen after walking outside the church to answer a mobile phone call.

And the former England football captain John Terry has announced his retirement from international competition. Terry said his position with the national team had become untenable because of the football association's decision to pursue disciplinary charges against him over accusations of racism. Earlier this year, a British court cleared Terry of racially abusing the footballer Anton Ferdinand. The football association's hearing into the matter is due to begin in the next few days.