[02:40.17]The Syrian opposition says that more than 50 rebels and more than 30 pro-Assad fighters were killed.
[02:45.97]The Syrian opposition says a temporary lifting of the government blockade to allow some food supplies into the Damascus suburb of Qudsaya has been negotiated.
[02:55.01]The suburb has been under siege for a month.
[02:57.46]World news from the BBC.
[03:00.10]More than 30,000 Yemenis have crossed the border into their home country in the last ten days from Saudi Arabia,
[03:07.06]which is currently expelling many illegal foreign workers.
[03:10.10]Reports from the border say some migrants accused Saudi police of abuse and say the deportation centers are overcrowded with insufficient food and water.
[03:19.55]Police in Spain have broken up a major Nigerian prostitution ring.
[03:25.15]They have arrested 25 Nigerians, who they accuse of trafficking women from the West African country
[03:30.16]with a promise of a better life in Europe and then forcing them to work as prostitutes there.
[03:34.84]They said five Nigerian women were freed in the operation.
[03:38.51]As be a bizarre ending to a football match in Italy, a third division side called Nocerina faked so many injuries
[03:46.88]that the game it was playing against one of its biggest rivals Salernitana had to be called off.
[03:51.93]From Rome, here is Allen Johnston.