BBC news with Nick Kelly.

State prosecutors in South Africa have charged miners arrested at the Marikana platinum mine with the murder of 34 their colleagues were shot dead by the police. The prosecutors used legislation from

apartheid

era as Karen Allen reports from Johannesburg.

Families and friends of the accused men gathered outside court to protest their innocent in what has become a

protracted

preliminary hearing. It follows the violence of fortnight ago in the mine owned by the world's third platinum producer Lonmin. The national prosecuting authority confirmed in court that it was invoking an apartheid era law, that enables it to press charges of murder and attempt murder against the miners themselves because they shared a common purpose. Two hundred and seventy mine workers at the Marikana mine were in court following the fatal shooting by the police of 34 their colleagues.

World food prices rose by 10% in July as a result of drought in the United States and Eastern Europe. The World Bank said that maize and wheat prices increased by 25%,

soybean

price row by 17% and sugar rose by 12%. Rice was the only food to fall in price, it declined by 4%. The World Bank said the price rises threatened the health of wellbeing of millions of people.

The UN Nuclear Watchdog says Iran has greatly increased its capacity to enrich uranium, it might have fortified underground site. The agency also accused Iran of hampering efforts to investigate whether another site to have been used to develop nuclear weapons. From Vienna, Kerry Scaring reports.