Supporters of the ruling Frelimo Party in Mozambique have held marches in several parts of the country to protest against armed attacks blamed on the opposition. Two people were killed when gunmen shot at three vehicles in Sofala province on Friday. The main opposition party and former rebel group Renamo had earlier warned that it would paralyze roads and railway vital to Mozambique’s coal exports.
A suicide bomber in Iraq has blown himself up in a Shiite mosque in a village north of Bagdad killing at least 14 people. Officials said more than 20 other people were injured in the attack during evening prayers in the Sobibor district. There’s been no immediate claim of responsibility.
There is a race against time in northern India to rescue thousands of people trapped by flash floods before new rain falls. The security forces are evacuating people by helicopter and trying to repair roads and bridges. A special railway service is carrying survivors away from Uttarakhand, the worst affected state.
Police in the Netherlands have given a seven-year-old joyrider a telling-off after he took his sleeping grandmother’s car and drove his fiver-year-old brother around town. Anna Hooligan has the details.
The seven-year-old managed to keep the road for a kilometer and it seems no one noticed there was a small boy behind the wheel. The miniature joyrider’s adventure was brought to an abrupt halt when the car hit a post. It happened in Bloomingdale, a small town just west of Amsterdam. The boy tried to reassure the police he hadn’t been acting irresponsibly telling them he’d strapped his little brother into the child seat and he was wearing a seatbelt.