World News from the BBC
The unemployment rate in countries using the euro reached a record 10.7% in January. It's estimated that almost 17 million people were out of work. But there are enormous differences between individual countries. In Austria, unemployment was only 4%, compared to 23.3% in Spain.
Pakistan says it'll press ahead with plans to build a pipeline importing gas directly from Iran despite strong criticism from the United States. Aleem Maqbool reports.
Given that it comes at a time when America is encouraging more economic pressure on Tehran over its nuclear programme, Hillary Clinton said it was
inexplicable
that Pakistan was pursuing this deal. It'll mean the creation of a gas pipeline that's ultimately expected to benefit Iran
to the tune of
hundreds of millions of dollars. The US secretary of state said if it went ahead, it could lead to sanctions being
imposed on
Pakistan. But the country's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said no third country could dictate the relationship between Islamabad and Tehran.
Nigerian leaders have been paying their final respects at the funeral of a man whose 1967 declaration of an independent Biafran Republic sparked a civil war. Thousands attended the funeral service of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a former military governor of the eastern region. He accused the federal government of killing thousands of Igbos and became their leader. Around a million people died, mainly of disease and starvation, in the ensuing civil war between 1967 and 1970.