The Nigerian military and police task force set up to battle Boko Haram have arrested at least 158 suspected sect members in a dawn
raid
in Kano. Residents said a man and his pregnant wife were killed in the operation. It followed a deadly assault on Friday by Boko Haram members - some dressed in police uniform - on police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of the secret police. At least 185 people were killed in the attacks after the authorities had refused to release suspected sect members from prison.
A bronze cast made from the death mask of the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin has been sold to an anonymous
bidder
at an auction in western England. It was put up for sale along with bronze copies of Stalin's hands. Yuri Zhuravel has the details.
"...were sold to a telephone bidder at £3,600."
As the hammer fell, the bronze cast of Joseph Stalin's dead face and hands were sold to an anonymous bidder on the phone for $5,600. Only about a dozen copies of Stalin's death mask were ever made. Most are still in Russia and the former USSR, including in the Stalin Museum in his hometown in Georgia. This mask on sale in Shropshire was one of only two that ended up in the west in the early 1990s taken out of Russia by a British art dealer.
Four police officers in the US state of Connecticut have been arrested and charged with offences arising from their alleged mistreatment of Hispanic people. They are accused of assaulting illegal immigrants and filing false reports in an attempt to