[00:42.45]The tea shop attack mounts another grime day for Iraq where the level of violence is at its worst for five years.

[00:49.57]Earlier in the day, suicide bombers attacked police army and government buildings in town of Rawa and the home of a senior police officer in Samarra.

[00:58.47]The Afghan authorities say an army special forces commander in eastern Kunar province has defected to an insurgent group taking his union’s guns and other equipments with him.

[01:07.76]Anbarasan Ethirajan reports.

[01:09.99]The Afghan special forces commander in Kunar province Monsif Khan gave leave to all his soldiers during the Eid religious festival and then escaped with his team’s guns,

[01:20.72]night vision goggles, binoculars and their Humvee truck.

[01:24.44]Officers say Mr. Khan is the first special forces commander to switch sides joining the Heze-e-Islamic organization which carries out attacks on the Afghan government and Nato-led forces.

[01:35.86]Security forces have launched a manhunt for the missing commander and tribe elders have promised to help.

[01:42.15]The widow of former President Tito of Yugoslavia, Jovanka Broz has died in Belgrade at the age of 88.

[01:48.94]After marrying President Tito in 1952, she traveled the world as Yugoslavia’s glamorous first lady.

[01:55.41]From Belgrade, here’s Guy De Launey.