A Dutch nurse who was jailed for life for murder she did not commit has been exonerated and given a public apology. Lucia de Berk was convicted in 2001 of killing seven people in her care and served six years in prison. The attorney general in the Netherlands said experts had mistakenly testified that she'd killed patients who'd probably died of natural causes.
The party of the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has invited opposition groups to join the government if it wins Sudan's first multi-party elections in almost a quarter of a century. The voting ends on Thursday that many parties opted to boycott. From Sudan, James Copnall reports.
The presidential adviser Ghazi Salahuddin said opposition parties would be offered roles in the government to be formed after the elections. Officials from President Omar al-Bashir's National Congress Party were saying similar things in separate interviews. The exact proposal is not yet clear, and so there was no firm response from the various opposition groups, some of which boycotted the elections. But Dr Salahuddin said the offer would apply even to those who didn't participate. It can even apply to rebel groups in Darfur if they sign peace deals.
The head of the World Bank Robert Zoellick says it's time to stop using the term Third World to refer to developing countries. Mr Zoellick said the global economic crisis had shown that such categorizations were no longer relevant.
BBC News.