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BBC News with Marion Marshall
Rebel fighters in Syria say they've shot down agovernment fighter plane
near the border with Iraq.Footage of the attack posted online shows a jetburst
into flames amid the sound of heavy gunfire.The rebels say they've captured the
pilot. Another video shows rebels questioning a man whoidentifies himself as the
pilot. Syrian state television has confirmed the crash, but said it wasdue to
technical problems. Kevin Connolly has more.
The plane appeared to be a Russian-built MiG-23, and experts say it's
decked out in thedistinctive markings of a Syrian air force. A few seconds into
the footage, a bright, yellowyorange point of flame appears on the fuselage, and
then, almost immediately, blossoms into ahuge ball of light. There's no
independent verification of the images. Planes like the MiG-23have given the
Syrian government a huge advantage over the rebels; and if one has been
shotdown, then it is a significant moment in this conflict.
In Norway, an official inquiry into the way police responded to the attacks
by Anders BehringBreivik last year has found they could have been avoided. The
commission said certainsecurity measures were not heeded, meaning that Breivik
was able to plant a bomb close togovernment buildings unnoticed. Caroline Hawley
reports.
It's just over a year since Anders Breivik set off a bomb at a government
building in Oslo, andthen drove to the picturesque island of Utoeya, where,
dressed in police uniform, he calmlypicked off his victims. The police
themselves arrived on the island more than an hour after thekillings began.
Today, the inquiry found that the bomb could have been prevented. Theinquiry
also found there'd been communication failures. It took the police too long to
issue adescription of Breivik and his vehicle; and it took the police too long
to get onto the island.
The Vatican has ordered that Pope Benedict's former butler should stand
trial for stealingsecret documents from the Pope's private office. Paolo
Gabriele and another Vatican employeeare also accused of stealing a check worth
$100,000. David Willey reports from Rome.
The Pope's private apartment on the top floor of the Apostolic Palace in
the Vatican is supposedto be one of the most secure locations in the world. Yet,
Paolo Gabriele managed to spiritaway a stack of correspondents which he took
home and photocopied, according to Vaticaninvestigators. The Vatican spokesman
said inquiries are continuing, and other people workinginside the Vatican may be
implicated. The theft has been a deeply embarrassing episode forthe Roman
Catholic Church.
The Olympic flag has arrived in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, which
will host the 2016Summer Games. The flag arrived with the city Mayor Eduardo
Paes who received it from hisLondon counterpart on Sunday. It marks the official
start of Rio's Olympic preparations whichinclude the building of several sports
venues in the next four years. Rio will be the first SouthAmerican city to host
the Olympics.
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Nearly 1,000 people have fled from wild fires on one of the Spanish Canary
Islands. Fanned bywarm winds, the fires on La Gomera have engulfed scrubland and
dry valleys, and sentresidents fleeing from the western town of Valle Gran Rey.
The fires have damaged part of LaGomera's Garajonay National Park.
Police in the United States say three people have been killed in a shooting
incident near a Texasuniversity campus. One of the dead was a police officer who
first arrived on the scene. Thegunman, who was wounded during exchange of
gunfire, has also died. The shooting was closeto A&M University northwest of
Houston.
Conservationists in South Africa say they've succeeded in reducing the
elephant populationafter a five-year contraception program. The number of cubs
being born at a park in northernKwaZulu-Natal has now halved. Darts carrying
contraceptives are fired from the air, avoiding thedistressing process of
hunting and culling the animals. Controlling the elephant population isvital as
they often rampage through farms to find the vast quantities of vegetation they
need.A district ecologist, Catharine Hanekom, said the results were
encouraging.
"The really* a * is that * remote application. So we were flying in
helicopter. We jostledanimals from the *. The * were for us, and that's
basically the impact that * have on thehood."
The owners of Cosmopolitan magazine say its long-time editor, Helen Gurley
Brown, has died inNew York at the age of 90. Helen Gurley Brown became famous in
1962 after writing thebestseller Sex and the Single Girl – a book of advice and
anecdotes on why being singleshouldn't mean being sexless. Widely credited with
helping to encourage the female sexualrevolution, she was hired by Hearst which
owns Cosmopolitan in 1965 to improve themagazine's fortunes. For the next 32
years, she developed a style which encouraged readers toget everything out of
life.
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