In Britain Queen Elizabeth has left hospital after spending a night there with a stomach infection. Peter Hunt reports.
The Queen left hospital after a briefer-than-expected stay. Dressed in red, she said goodbye to a nurse on the steps of the King Edward VII's Hospital and then was driven off in a green Bentley to Buckingham Palace. According to officials, she’s been suffering from the symptoms of gastroenteritis which include vomiting and diarrhoea. For the past 24 hours, the 86-year-old monarch has been assessed by doctors. The nature of her treatment hasn’t been made public. It could have included tests to establish if the symptoms she’s been suffering from have been caused by an infection or a potentially more serious underlying problem.
The Mexican telecommunications magnet Carlos Slim has topped the Forbes magazine’s list of the world’s richest people for the fourth year running. Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, came second followed by Amancio Ortega from the Spanish retailer Zara, who saw the biggest increase in his wealth. The American publication said more than 200 people joined its list of the world’s billionaires this year.
Hundreds of people in western Bosnia have held a mock funeral for their own town to protest about unemployment, which has risen to 80 per cent following the collapse of a wood factory that was the last major local employer. They lit candles for the soul of the town of Drvar and left traditional obituary placards on electricity poles and in shop windows. The protesters accused the authorities of not doing enough to revive the town’s economy after it suffered extensive damage during the Bosnian War.