Volgograd: many dead in second explosion in Russian city
At least 14 people killed in trolleybus explosion, the day after 17 died in another suicide attack at the city's railway station
At least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus crowded with morning commuters in Volgograd, less than 24 hours after another deadly suicide attack at the main train station in the same city.
The authorities initially said 15 people were dead, but a statement from local authorities subsequently put the toll at 14. Dozens were reported injured. A one-year-old child was critically injured.
The blast ripped the trolleybus apart, leaving a disfigured carcass without the roof and walls.
It is the third bombing attack in Volgograd in three months, with most security experts linking the wave of attacks to the pledge by the Chechen jihadist leader Doku Umarov to disrupt the Olympic Games in Sochi, which start in six weeks.
Police kill eight 'terrorists' in China's Xinjiang province
Eight people who were attacking a police station in Xinjiang province have been killed by police, Chinese authorities say. The largely Muslim region has seen a recent string of deadly incidents.
Authorities in western China said on Monday that police had shot dead eight "terrorists" who launched an attack on a police station in Shache county.
One of the attackers has been detained following the attack, the Xinjiang government news portal Tianshan Net said.
The website said the attackers were armed with knives and explosives.
The region, where mainly Muslim Uighurs are the largest ethnic group, has seen a number of violent incidents this year, with authorities blaming them on what they call "terrorists."
Security reinforced in Rio ghettos in World Cup clean-up
December 30, 2013 - 1:49PM
Donna Bowater
Rio de Janeiro: Security reinforcements were sent to Rio de Janeiro's biggest shanty towns over Christmas to try to contain an outbreak of violence that threatens to derail the city's pacification campaign ahead of the 2014 World Cup.
Extra police were drafted in to Rocinha, one of Latin America's most notorious favelas – ghettos – after an officer and a resident were injured on Christmas Day, amid intensifying gun fights with drug traffickers.
The confrontations flared in the wake of the alleged torture and murder of a resident by police, and come amid a growing backlash against the landmark program intended to end the dominance of drug gangs and militias.
Thousands flood makeshift camp in CAR
More than 100 000 people displaced by religious violence in Central African Republic are in urgent need of basic supplies at the Bangui airport camp.
Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said on Sunday that it was receiving between 15 and 20 wounded a day at a makeshift camp at Bangui airport in Central African Republic, and has called for urgent aid.
The wounded are the result of fighting in the riverside capital, where the deployment of French and African peacekeepers in early December has failed to halt violence.
Attacks by Muslim Seleka rebels, who seized power in March, and Christian militias have killed more than 1 000 people and displaced an estimated 400 000 in Bangui this month.
Egypt arrests 3 Al Jazeera journalists
December 30, 2013 -- Updated 0901 GMT (1701 HKT)
(CNN) -- Three Al Jazeera journalists were arrested by Egyptian security forces, with the government saying at least one of them met with members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood.
Correspondent Peter Greste, producer Mohamed Fahmy and cameraman Mohamed Fawzy were taken into custody Sunday evening in Cairo, the network said.
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior said on its Facebook page that security forces arrested a Muslim Brotherhood member and an Australian journalist at a Cairo hotel. Greste, an Australian, previously worked for CNN, Reuters and the BBC.
30 December 2013 Last updated at 01:09 GMT
Why many of Ghana's gold miners are giving up
Kwaku Boham worries about the future. For years, he and his four fellow gold miners have scratched out a living on a tiny plot next to the roadside near Tarkwa in south-eastern Ghana.
All day in the tropical heat and humidity, they dig out the red soil and rocks and crush them in a noisy grinder, hoping to yield some small nuggets to cover their expenses and feed their families.
But they have no control over what they sell any nuggets for - that's set in markets in New York and London. And over the past year, the price of gold has been falling.
On 1 January this year, the spot price of gold was $1,687.22 an ounce, this month it has been trading around $1,240 an ounce - a loss of around 25%.
The outlook for 2014 is not much healthier.
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