BBC news with Jonathan Izard.
Venezuela's National Assembly has been meeting to elect a possible stand-in for President Hugo Chavez who's struggling to recover from cancer surgery in Cuba. The assembly has reappointed a leading ally of Mr Chavez, Diosdado Cabello as its head. Sarah Grainger reports from Caracas.
Mr Chavez is due to be sworn in for another term of office on Jan 10. But it looks unlikely that he'll be well enough to attend. If he steps down before then, Mr Cabello would become Venezuela's care-taker president while fresh elections will organize within a month. Opposition politicians have said they would welcome the return to the ballot box, but government ministers are insisting that Mr Chavez's inauguration can be postponed to a later date. They say that President Chavez is on the road to recovery.
A court in the Indian capital Delhi has ordered five men accused of the gang rape and murder of a woman on a bus last month to appear before it on Monday. The case has sparked widespread anger in India and beyond. From Delhi, here's Andrew North.
Prosecutors say they have extensive evidence against the five men charged with the crime that continues to shake India. At a pretrial hearing, they told the court DNA tests show a match between the woman's blood and stains found on the clothes of the five men. Indian media say the bus driver has testified they planned to rape any woman who got on with some of the men posing as passengers to trick people into boarding. Delhi police have rejected allegations by the woman's friend that they were slow taking them to hospital.