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BBC World News with Nick Kelly.

In a surprise move, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has announced the release of 15 British naval personnel seized by Iranian forces nearly 2 weeks ago. The announcement came during a news conference at which President Ahmadinejad awarded medals to the men who had captured the 15 Britons. Our Teheran correspondent Frances Harrison reports.

"The British embassy in Teheran would only say that they have now seen the sailors for the first time since they were captured 13 days ago. And they said they were now arranging their travel back to Britain. An Iranian official quoted in the local media has said the group will be handed over to the British embassy in Teheran on Thursday. After their release, there was total confusion about the whereabouts of the sailors. They were seen thanking President Ahmadinejad and then waving goodbye to journalists before being wist out of the presidential office."

After the announcement, President Ahmadinejad said he never wanted conflict with Britain and accused British Prime Minister Tony Blair of behaving badly. Mr. Blair has expressed relief at the Iranian change of heart. The news of the British naval crew's release brought relief for their families. The parents of Captain Chris Air said the news from Teheran was hard to take in at first. "All of a sudden, a chap come running down. He said your wife is outside, kind I said. I said what? He said yes, she is on the road screaming. I thought what's on? " "There couldn't be any better feeling than what I'm feeling now, just absolutely ..." "It's been 13 long days to us."

The American senator Barack Obama says he has raised a sizable campaign fund to back his bid to be the Democratic candidate in the 2008 presidential election. Senator Obama, who hopes to become America's first black president, says he has raised 25 million dollars so far. Justin Webb reports from Washington.
This is a stunning development likely to be looked back on as the moment that Barack Obama came of age. The black politician from Illinois who has only served 2 years in the Senate has proved with these figures that he has what it takes to sit at the top table. Only days ago, Hillary Clinton announced that she had raised a record sum, more money than all nine Democratic candidates combined in the equivalence stage of the 2004 campaign. Now Barack Obama can claim to have matched her.

The rebel leader in Ivory Coast Guillaume Soro has formally taken over as prime minister at a ceremony in the commercial capital Abidjan. Mr. Soro will form a new government charged with taking the country to free and fair elections within ten months.

Thousands of supporters of the Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych have held a second day of protests in Kiev against the president's decision to dissolve Parliament and call a new general election. There was a smaller competing demonstration by supporters of President Yushchenko, his pro-western rival during the Orange Revolution two years ago.

World News from the BBC.

There has been serious crowd trouble during a football match in Rome between the Italian side Roma and the English club Manchester United, a number of people were injured. European football's governing body UEFA, has announced it will launch an investigation into the trouble. Christian Phrase sent this report from the ground.
Before this game, fighting between rival fans broke out on the approach roads to the stadium. Seven fans were injured in the scuffles. Police said one Manchester United supporter was stabbed and is in hospital, though his condition is described as not serious. There was also trouble inside the stadium when riot police melt on Manchester United fans shortly after the first goal. But there will be question marks about the way the Carabiniere reacted. Fans were beaten repeatedly with truncheons, some of them while they were lying prostrate on the ground.

The first transatlantic merger of stock exchanges has been completed, the New York Stock Exchange has joined forces with Euronext, which groups the main share markets in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon. The BBC economics correspondent says that the deal should lead to lower charges for customers. Companies will be able to tap into a larger pool of potential investors in the United States and Europe. The Chief Executive of the New York Stock Exchange John Thain is confident of the financial benefits.
"There is no question that we will be able to bring our cost down, we believe that particularly on the technology side that there are 250 million dollars worth of expense synergies and that will go to the benefit of both the investors and our shareholders."

An international team of scientists says the supposed remains of the 15th century French heroine Joan of Ark almost certainly fakes. The researchers say the chart remains, which were discovered in a Paris chemist's shop in 1867, are most likely those from the Egyptian mummy, possibly dating from a thousand years before Joan of Ark was born. The researchers believed the forgery may have been an attempt to boost the process of Joan of Ark's beatification.

BBC World News.