pulled out of
parliament.
Police in Nigeria have arrested 14 suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. They said the arrests were made after an exchange of gunfire outside the home of one of the suspects in the northern city of Kano.
India has approved an ambitious plan to extend its subsidised food programme to cover almost two thirds of the population. The move is expected to increase the government's food bill by more than $5bn.
The official
death toll
in the Philippines after Sunday's tropical storm has risen to more than 900. The government's disaster monitoring office said more bodies had been recovered from the ocean and there were still many people missing.
Seventeen people, including current and former footballers, have been arrested in Italy as part of an investigation into
match-fixing
and illegal betting. They include Cristiano Doni, the former captain of Atalanta, who's already been
banned from
football over a previous case.
Several matches from the last two seasons in Italy's top leagues are under investigation.
And the European Union has warned Ukraine that the
imprisonment
of the opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has delayed an agreement which was supposed to bring Ukraine closer to EU membership.
That's a summary of the news brought to you by me, Julian Marshall, presenting Newshour...