A court in Turkey has jailed three more people in connection with the killing five years ago of the prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink. Mr Dink was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul. He'd angered Turkish nationalists by describing the mass killing of Armenians a century ago as genocide. His teenage killer was jailed last year.
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning to shut down the English language version of its website for 24 hours on Wednesday in protest at proposed legal changes in the United States. The legislation aims to combat the sale of pirated US products overseas. More from Mark Gregory.
Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales told the BBC that the proposed laws are so overbroad and badly written they could have all sorts of consequences that have nothing to do with piracy. One controversial provision would require Google and other search engines to block access to non-US sites deemed to be hosting stolen content; another would require online payment services like PayPal to stop the flow of revenues to pirate sites. Support for the changes has come from media groups and movie makers worried about their paid-for content being stolen and distributed free of charge.
Mexico is sending food aid to the north of the country where
indigenous
communities are suffering from severe shortages. The indigenous group, the Tarahumara, have been hit by a prolonged drought and freezing temperatures. Mexicans have been donating clothes and food after reports, which were later denied, that there had been a string of suicides among the Tarahumara.