[02:29.24]At least two Malian soldiers have been killed and several people injured in a suicide bombing in northern Mali.
[02:35.16]A Malian army spokesman said a patrol was targeted near the city of Gao.
[02:39.20]One report said there as many as five suicide bombers were involved.
[02:42.63]Police in Britain have arrested a senior member of the governing conservative party on suspicion of rape and sexual assault.
[02:48.98]Nigel Evans who is the deputy speaker of the Lower House of parliament is been questioned about alleged attacks on two men in their twenties.
[02:56.80]This is the World News from the BBC
[03:00.41]Officials with the US-led international force in Afghanistan say seven American soldiers have been killed in two separate incidents.
[03:08.93]Afghan officials say five of them were killed in the south of the country when their armed vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kandahar Province.
[03:16.08]Earlier this week, three British troops were killed by a roadside bomb in the neighboring province of Helmand.
[03:21.54]The Equal Opportunities Minister in the new Italian government has been removed from her post after criticizing homosexuals.
[03:28.82]David Willey in Rome has this story.
[03:31.46]Only a day after she was sworn in, Michaela Biancofiore, the junior minister for equal opportunities
[03:37.51]and a member of Silvio Berlusconi's Freedom party is forced to step down from her new job.