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...Turkey from northern Iraq. The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki signed a memorandum of understanding on security issues after lengthy talks in Ankara. Mr. al-Maliki said his own country was a victim of terrorism so he understood Turkey's concerns about the attacks by the Kurdish separatists movement the PKK. Mr. Erdogan said the two countries had agreed to work together to confront the PKK. "We express determination very openly once again about the fight against terrorism, predominantly the PKK. We have reached an agreement to spend all efforts to end the presence of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in Iraq."

An official report into an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle in Southern England has found that there's a strong probability that the strain originated from a nearby animal research center. The facility contains two laboratories, one run by the government, the other privately owned. The report by the Health and Safety Executive said there was a real possibility that the disease was spread by human movement. Government vets have set up an exclusion zone around the affected area.

A man suspected of being one of the world's most wanted drugs barons has been arrested in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, also known as Chupeta, allegedly a leader of the powerful Norte del Valle Colombian drugs cartel was arrested earlier on Tuesday on the city's outskirts. His detention follows a two-year international police operation. Jeremy McDermott reports.

With the $5-million bounty on his head, as one of the US's most wanted drugs traffickers, it was no surprise that the man arrested in Brazil bore little physical resemblance to the young bodybuilder on the wanted posters. Alias Chupeta had not only changed his appearance radically thanks to plastic surgery but he changed his base from the Colombian province of Valle del Cauca on the Pacific coast along his stronghold, to Brazil Sao Paulo.

Astronomers have disclosed details of what they say is the largest planet yet discovered anywhere in the universe. It's located some 1,400 light years away in the constellation of Hercules. Our science correspondent Neil Boulder reports.

The planet which has been dubbed TrES-4 is the biggest planet ever found by humankind. It's a whopping 70% bigger than Jupiter which is by far the biggest planet in our own solar system. It was discovered by using three telescopes, two in the United States, one in the Canary Islands. TrES-4 is however very different to Jupiter. Despite its size, it's lighter and it's also a lot, lot hotter than cold Jupiter with temperatures of over 1, 300 degrees Celsius.

World News from the BBC.

Diplomats in Vienna where the United Nations Nuclear Agency, the IAEA is based say Russia has placed new conditions on supplying nuclear fuel for a power station Moscow is building near the Iranian port of Bushehr. The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity, say Moscow has told Iran it must answer a number of questions about its past secret nuclear activities.

The president of Georgia has been to the village where a missile from a Russian fighter plane is said to have ploughed into the ground close to a house. The President Mikhail Saakashvili accused Russia of trying to spread panic and said the incident had a bearing on European safety and security. From Moscow, here is Sarah Rainsford.

Tbilisi insists two Russian planes violated Georgian airspace on Monday evening and one fired a missile which fell 60 kilometers from the capital. No one was hurt and the missile did not explode. Russia though denies any involvement and instead warns Tbilisi against playing what it calls "dangerous games". A statement from the Foreign Ministry here claims a plane flew in from the direction of Georgia fired the missile which hit a field close to a breakaway region that's been backed by Moscow for well over a decade.

The owner of a coal mine which collapsed in the American state of Utah on Monday says it will take another three days before rescue teams can reach six miners trapped inside. The owner, Bob Murray, said rescue workers had been unable to establish contact with the miners and he couldn't confirm if the men were alive or dead. Mr. Murray blamed the incident on a minor earthquake which struck Utah on Monday.

French police have found three works of art by Pablo Picasso that were stolen from his granddaughter's apartment in Paris last February. The two paintings and one drawing are estimated to be worth about $66 million. The police said they were in good condition in a hiding place elsewhere in Paris. They said they had arrested three people already known to them for dealing in stolen art.

BBC World News.