World News from the BBC
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has welcomed a statement by President Obama that there's a window of opportunity to solve the Iranian nuclear issue diplomatically. Ayatollah Khamenei said they were good words although he said the US still wanted to
bring the Iranian people to their knees
through
sanctions
. But a BBC correspondent points out that Mr Obama said Washington would take no options off the table in order to stop Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon.
The Pakistani interior minister says the three widows of Osama Bin Laden have been charged with illegally entering and living in Pakistan.
The three women, thought to be two Saudi Arabians and a Yemeni, were taken into Pakistani
custody
after American commandos killed the al-Qaeda leader at his home in Abbottabad last May.
Indigenous protesters in Ecuador have begun a two-week march across the country to demand that the government abandon plans for large-scale mining projects. Several hundreds protesters set off from an Amazon province where a Chinese company has been authorised to develop a huge
open-cast
copper mine. Ecuador's main indigenous organisation says mining will contaminate water supplies.
A rare "wanted" poster offering a reward for the capture of King Charles II in 1651 has been sold at
auction
in England for more than $50,000. The poster was issued by the parliament led by Oliver Cromwell towards the end of the English Civil War. Here's Claire Marshall with the details.