World News from the BBC
A car bomb has killed several people in Syria’s second biggest city Aleppo. Syrian state media and opposition activists say the explosion happened outside a carwash in the suburb. Reports say a man calling himself a member of the opposition Syrian Free Army said the group attacked the carwash because the owner was a member of the feared pro-government militia the shabiha.
Reports from Mali say Islamists fighters have
desecrated
the Holy Site in the northern city of Timbuktu. Officials said armed men from the Islamist group Ansar Dine attacked and burned the tomb of a revered 16th century Muslim scholar which is classified as World Heritage site. The Malian government said the attack was an
unspeakable
act in the name of Islam.
Thousands of South Sudanese stranded in a shift camp in Sudan for months as relations deteriorated between the two countries, are to be flown back home. International Organisation for Migration says it agreed to
repatriate
up to 15,000 southerners stranded in the camp 300km south of Khartoum.
And US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged feuding Bangladeshi political parties to work together to solve their problems for the good of their country. Mrs. Clinton is visiting the country warned that political turmoil risks to sending a negative signal to foreign investors. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.
In a candid message, the US Secretary of State said Bangladesh's democracy was