Tunisia has received about $29m from what it calls the looted assets held abroad by the ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and his family. The money has been held in a Lebanese bank account in the name of the wife of Mr Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after an uprising two years ago.
France's chief rabbi is leaving his post after admitting to plagiarism and lying about his
academic
background. The scandal began after a news magazine revealed that Gilles Bernheim had passed off another writer's work as his own. He also admitted to falsely stating that he'd obtained a prestigious qualification from the Sorbonne University in Paris. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris.
Gilles Bernheim started by denying the plagiarism, then he admitted it, but said it was a sin of pride which would not justify him deserting his post, but finally he has come to growing pressure from the Jewish community and agree to step down. He expressed his apologies for having misled people but said he hoped the scandal would not overshadow his works since 2008 as the country's senior rabbi.
The Nobel Prize medal awarded to the British scientist Francis Crick in 1962 for his discovery of DNA has sold for more than $2m at auction in New York. It was bought by Jack Wang, the chief executive of a bio-medical company based in Shanghai in China. Mr Crick's family is selling some of his possessions to coincide with the 60th Anniversary of the discovery.