[02:48.35]Gay, who's the second fastest man in the world over 100 meters, says he's pulling out the Athletics World Championships in Moscow next month..
[02:55.88]This is the World News from the BBC.
[02:59.76]The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a tougher European data protection rules following revelations about the United States online surveillance programs.
[03:10.06]The comments follow leaks suggesting that the US eavesdropped on EU officials as part of a widespread electronic spy operation.
[03:18.67]Stephen Evans reports from Berlin.
[03:20.91]“Within an election two months away, Chancellor Merkel is under some pressure to disclose how much her government knew about the activities of the American national security agency.
[03:31.30]In her Sunday evening interview, she said that in future, the United States must abide by German law,
[03:38.31]an assertion that some in Germany hood as attested mission that the NSA broke German law by spying on German citizens.
[03:47.01]Chancellor Merkel sent her interior minister to Washington last week to find out how much spying there had been and on whom.
[03:55.78]The opposition in Berlin has accused her government of failing to get answers.”
[04:01.82]The authorities in Iraq said at least 15 people have died in a new wave of bomb attacks south of the capital Baghdad.