A military judge in the United States has rejected a request to throw out all the charges in the case of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to the
whistle-blowing
website Wikileaks. The decision made at a hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland means Private Manning's trial will go ahead in September as planned.
In what's being seen as a landmark case, an Indian woman has legally
annulled
a marriage that her parents arranged for her when she was a child. Laxmi Sargara, who is now 18, was married at the age of one to a three-year-old groom in the state of Rajasthan. Jo Jolly reports.
The teenager only found out about her marriage this month when her parents told her she would have to move to her in-laws' house. After asking a local social worker for help, Laxmi was able to persuade her husband to sign a legal document to annul the marriage and have this verified by a government official. Child marriage is illegal in India but is still common in many rural areas. Campaigners hope this case will encourage others to fight against the practice.
Scientists at a German research institute say satellite data from Global Positioning Systems, or GPS, could be used to provide much faster tsunami warnings. The scientists say they've analysed data gathered from over 500 GPS stations at the time a
devastating
earthquake hit Japan in March last year. They say it could have been used to predict both the correct magnitude of the quake and the size of the resultant tsunami in just three to four minutes, faster than traditional methods.