I want to categorically deny any United States involvement in any kind of act of violence inside Iran.
United States has held its highest contact so far with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which has been the biggest winner in the country's parliamentary elections. The Deputy Secretary of State William Burns met the head of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, Mohamed Morsi, in Cairo.
A prosecutor has been shot dead by a man in the middle of a trial in Germany. The defendant who was appearing in court in the town of Dachau, near Munich, opened fire at the prosecutor before police were able to overpower him. Fiona Werge reports.
The man pulled out a revolver and shot first at the judge, but missed. He then fired three shots at the prosecutor in the local district court in Dachau, wounding him in the shoulder, stomach and arm. The lawyer was taken to the hospital where he later died. There were no reports of other injuries. According to a local newspaper, the lawyer who was 31, but only started working for the prosecutor's office a year ago. The defendant, in his 50s, was on trial over claims he paid his employees improper wages.
A French court has rejected an attempt by descendants of the man who founded the carmaker Renault to take back ownership of the firm. The company was nationalized in 1945 after the death of Louis Renault who had been accused of wartime collaboration with Nazi Germany. The Renault family argued that the move was unconstitutional and wanted the firm back from the French state.