World news from the BBC.
South Sudan has marked its first anniversary as an independent state with parade and festivities. But president Sallva Kiir has warned his people that they have tough challenges ahead. The president said the biggest threat to a peaceful existence came from Sudan. The two countries have been
in loggerheads
since the South won the independence with clashes along their borders in the fears dispute over the
division
of oil revenues.
Reports in the Czech Republic say a judge who sent a group of far right extremists to prison has been found dead. The reports said he had been at his country cottage. Rob Cameron reports from Prague.
Judge Miloslav Studnicka made Czech legal history two years ago when he handed down
exemplary
sentences to four Neo Nazi # who admitted fire bombing a Romani household. Now according to reports in the Czech media he has died found at his country cottage with his throat cut. A police spokeswoman refused to confirm any details in the case. The head of the Czech police said it was too early to say whether he had been murdered.
Rescue workers in Columbia have freed 20 miners who have been trapped in a coal mine after a tunnel collapsed. The men had been cut off when a wagon carrying coal
derailed
and hit one of the beams supporting the tunnel marking it down. Officials had thought only 15 man were trapped.
Reports from India say the government has bought thousands of documents relating to Mahatma Gandhi, days before they will due to put up for auction in London. The documents which include letters, papers and photos have been expected to