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A committee of British MPs has strongly criticized the way the authorities handled the seizure by Iran of a party of sailors and marines in the gulf earlier this year. The MPs said it was wholly unsatisfactory that an inquiry had failed to find anyone responsible for allowing the service personnel to sell their stories to the media. David Loyn reports.

Although the Foreign Office made it known that it would be a significant mistake to allow the sale of stories of the ordeal, the sale to newspapers went ahead. The committee said it was wholly unsatisfactory that an inquiry carried out by the former head of BBC News, Tony Hall, failed to find anyone responsible for this decision at the Ministry of Defense. They say that the sale happened to spike the clear implications of the continuing press coverage for Britain's international standing and reputation.

The government of Brazil is under increasing pressure over the safety of its aviation industry after 5 flights from Sao Paulo to the United States had to turn back, because of radar installation failed. The incident happened 4 days after Brazil's worst air crash, and shortly after the president said air safety in Brazil met international standards. From Sao Paulo, Gary Duffy reports.

According to Infraero, the company which runs Brazil's airport, the radar at Manaus in the Amazon area shut down for just over 2 hours. The radar covers the point of entry into the country, responsible for some 90% of flight path, including routes from United States and Central America. After the radar was fixed, it took another 2 hours before it was fully functioning. The flights that were affected were traveling to the United States from Brazil. The exact cause of the problem is not clear, but flights have been returning to normal.

Italian police say they've closed down a training center for Islamist terrorists linked to al-Qaeda at a mosque in Perugia. Three Moroccans have been arrested including the mosque's imam. Police are searching for another Moroccan. Police say militants were being trained to handle weapons, explosives and poisons and to go on suicide missions abroad. YY is an adviser on Islamic affairs to the Italian Interior Ministry. He told the BBC the arrests were uNPRecedented.

This has shocked the Muslim community in Italy, and of course, the Italian citizens at the first situation, where we have to witness that so called "Muslims" are once again confusing their religious beliefs with political actions and training in violence in this apartment.

There are conflicting accounts of the fate of 2 Germans kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban spokesman said both men have been killed because Germany hadn't pulled its troops out of Afghanistan as the Taliban demanded. But the Afghan government later said it believed one of the hostages was still alive.

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Turkey is about to hold a parliamentary election in what's seen as a crucial test of its secular system, which attempts to maintain a balance between Islam and Democracy. The election was called to resolve the political crisis caused when Turkey's governing party nominated the devout Muslim Foreign Minister, Abdullah Gul, for the presidency. Sarah Rainsford reports from Ankara.

Voters have been heading home from the beaches by the coach load, interrupting their holidays to take part in the most important election here in many years. The role of religion here will be a key issue at the Ballot Box, and so were the Turkish relations with the outside world. National sentiment is running high, fed by bitter disappointment with the EU. Renewed fighting with separatist Kurds and talk of an incursion into northern Iraq will also influence the results.

Severe floods have continued to affect large parts of central and southern England after a torrential rainfall on Friday. Hundreds of people have been rescued from their homes. The Royal Air Force says it's carried out its biggest peacetime rescue operation. A horse trainer told the BBC how his stables were engulfed in water.

Just a huge amount of volume of water came into one of our yards, we had to evacuate 20 horses pretty shortly, it's quite scary, really, the horses were 3 or 4 foot deep in water, well, it's enough to make you cry, really, they are very young horses and of course, they had never encountered something like this before in their lives.

Federal and State Parliamentarians in India have elected Pratibha Patil as their country's first woman president. Mrs. Patil, who is 72, was the governor of the State Rajasthan before being nominated as the presidential candidate of India's governing coalition. In a bitter contest, she defeated the opposition candidate, the Indian Vice President, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. She succeeds the popular Abdul Kalam, as president.

And that's the World News from the BBC.