World News from the BBC.
The South African Oscar Pistorius has won the final of the 400m at the London Paralympics setting a new Paralympics record. A capacity crowd watched him win his first solo gold in the Games' last event held in the Athletic Stadium. He dominated the race finishing around ten meters ahead of the other runners.
A 14-year-old suicide bomber has killed at least six people in an attack close to the Nato headquarters in the Afghan capital Kabul. Among the dead were children working as street sellers. The Taliban said it was behind the attack. A spokesman for the international forces in Afghanistan, Brigadier Gen. Gunter Katz, said those responsible
had no regard for
human life.
It's a clear sign that the
insurgency
is not caring at all about the civilian population, and they are misusing teenagers for their brutal attacks.
French police have
enlisted
the help of Italy and Switzerland in their investigation into the killing of a British-Iraqi family who were on holiday in the Alps. They want to know more about the a green four-wheel-drive vehicle reportedly sited near the scene. In Britain, a team of four French officers is working with local detectives in the house of the murdered man Saad al-Hilli and his wife. Postmortem examinations have revealed that each of the four people who died was shot twice in their head.
A Mauritanian website has uploaded a video showing four French citizens who were abducted by the North African branch of al-Qaeda in Niger two years ago. In the recordings, the men call on their families, employers and the French authorities to help negotiate their release.