come up with ways
to help struggling eurozone countries, but not immediately. The Spanish and Italian stock markets closed nearly 5% down while both countries' borrowing costs rose sharply. Many analysts have been hoping for actions straight away from the ECB.
The Colombian government says it will appeal against a court decision which ruled against the Navy in a land dispute. The constitutional court ordered that the Navy
dismantle
a training base because it was built on land belonging to indigenous tribes in central Guaviare province.
A woman from northern France who confessed to killing eight of her newborn babies has been released from custody. Dominique Cottrez has been in detention since July 2010 soon after the discovery of the infants. She's told prosecutors she'd been raped by her father and killed the babies for fear that they were his. Her husband said he knew nothing of the births. Christian Fraser has more.
It is possibly the most shocking case of
infanticide
ever discovered in France. Dominique Cottrez, a loving mother of two grown children, had
suffocated
eight of her own newborn babies – the first in 1989, the last in 2006. Two baby skeletons were found at a house which had belonged to her parents in 2010; the remains of other six were found at her current home inside plastic bags which she placed in a fuel-storage tank. The probation order requires her to continue with the psychological and psychiatric care she's been receiving in custody.