Earlier, large crowds gathered outside jails across Burma to greet leaders of the democracy movement and dissident monks as they walked free.
Turkish police have raided more than 100 homes and offices in 17 cities as part of an operation against the Kurdish nationalist movement. At least 32 people have been detained. From Istanbul, here's Jonathan Head.
There are now two parallel operations underway by the Turkish state against the Kurdish nationalist movement. In the mountains of the southeast, the Turkish armed forces continue to fight armed insurgents of the Kurdish Workers' Party, the PKK. But in urban areas, many hundreds, perhaps thousands of civilians have also been
rounded up
in successive police raids. There have been so many no one is sure of the total number detained. They include lawyers, human rights activists and journalists. Turkey now has more journalists in jail than any other country.
A court in Norway has ordered a new
psychiatric
evaluation of Anders Behring Breivik, who was found to have been legally insane when he carried out a bomb attack and mass shooting last July. The court said the special and extremely serious nature of the case meant that the issue of Mr Breivik's criminal responsibility had to be studied more closely. The earlier assessment found that Mr Breivik was psychotic, but that assessment has been widely criticised.
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