More funerals have been held in Kenya for victims of the attack on the Westgate Shopping Mall in which at least 67 people were killed, at the shopping center itself, blasts have been heard. They’re believed to be controlled explosions carried out by the Kenyan security forces. International forensic experts are continuing their search of the building, a third of which was destroyed during the assault by the Somali militant group al-Shabab.

A court in northern Russia is sitting into the night to deal with 30 Greenpeace activists arrested during a protest at an offshore oil platform in the Russian Arctic. 20 have been sent to a remand prison for two months to wait trial on charges of piracy, the crime that carries a prison sentence of up to 15 years. President Putin has commented that the accused obviously not pirates but he hasn't objected to that detention. The campaigners come from 18 different countries.

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The authorities in Brazil say they have uncovered slave-like conditions for workers employed on the expansion of Sao Paulo's international airport in preparation for next year’s football world cup. An official investigation found that one of the country’s biggest building contractors forced more than 100 workers to live in miserable accommodation near the building site. They were hired hundreds of kilometers away in poorer northeastern state.

Police in Mexico have found three human heads left by a monument at the entrance of the town of Los Reyes in the southwestern state of Michoacan. Officials say that criminal gang members left notes next to the heads warning the residents of consequences of supporting vigilante groups. Michoacan is at the center of drug production and distribution.