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the course of justice. Prosecutors accuse the couple and four other former employees of News International of concealing evidence from a police investigation into the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World newspaper.

The emergency services in Colombia say at least two people have been killed and more than a dozen injured in an explosion in the capital Bogota. One of those wounded is the former Interior Minister Fernando Londono.

One person has been killed and several wounded in an attack on a restaurant in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa. One gunman is reported to have opened fire when guards prevented him and two accomplices from entering the building. The gunmen then threw two grenades and fled. It's unclear who carried out the attack.

The Mexican author Carlos Fuentes has died. He was 83. From Mexico City, Will Grant looks back at his career.

A contemporary of other great Latin American writers, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and fellow Mexican Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes was a prolific novelist and essayist. He gained international

acclaim

for his works, The Death of Artemio Cruz in 1962, and more recently The Eagle's Throne, which imagined a world in which the United States had

knocked out

all of Mexico's telecommunications. He was never awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, but was

bestowed

with practically every other literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.