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BBC news 2010-12-11

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Police in London have launched a criminal investigation into student protests in the capital over the past month, which culminated in an attack on Prince Charles and his wife on Thursday night. The investigation aims to find those responsible for the violence. Here's Danny Shaw.

Detectives are now viewing CCTV footage to identify those responsible for the violence. Although most are believed to be students, police believe groups of youths looking for trouble joined in even though they had no interest in the issue of tuition fees. It's emerged that one of those involved was the adopted son of the Pink Floyd guitarist, David Gilmour. Charlie Gilmour, who's at Cambridge, admitted climbing the Cenotaph and swinging from a Union Flag. He said he was deeply ashamed of his behaviour.

The UN climate change summit in Cancun, Mexico is drawing to a close with no agreement so far on future cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. Some rich countries have been resisting calls for further cuts under the Kyoto Protocol. Richard Black is in Cancun.

Japan appears dead set against accepting further emission cuts under the Kyoto Protocol; so does Russia. But developing countries say those nations must uphold promises they made a decade ago. The US and other western countries want the World Bank to control money raised to help poorer countries deal with climate change. Those developing countries can't accept that as they regard the bank as a western-dominated institution.

The authorities in Mexico say they've shot dead a notorious drug baron in the western state of Michoacan. Nazario Moreno, known as The Craziest One, was a leader of the drug cartel known as La Familia Michoacana. He was killed during fighting between Mexican security forces and cartel gunmen that left at least 11 other people dead.

The only surviving American flag from one of the most famous battles of the American West, Custer's Last Stand, has been sold for approximately $2m at Sotheby's in New York. The silk Cavalry flag was carried into the 1876 battle at Little Bighorn, where General Custer led 200 soldiers against a much stronger force from the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. Bethany Bell reports from Washington.

The battle was a huge victory for the Native Americans, but the public frenzy to avenge Custer's death accelerated the government's efforts to confine the Plains Indians. Since 1895, the silk flag has been the property of the Detroit Institute of Arts and hasn't often been on display to the public. It's not yet clear who bought it at auction.

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Austrian police have arrested Croatia's fugitive former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. He's now expected to face extradition to Croatia. Kerry Skyring reports from Vienna.

Ivo Sanader was picked up while driving near Salzburg and is now being detained at a courthouse in the city. An interior ministry spokesman says police were acting on an international arrest warrant issued by Croatian justice officials, who want to question the former prime minister on corruption charges. Mr Sanader has strong links to Austria and once studied at the University of Innsbruck. Friends of the former prime minister had told Croatian media he was simply on a business trip.

The former tennis star Martina Navratilova has been forced to abandon an attempt to climb Africa's highest mountain after suffering from altitude sickness. Ms Navratilova was struck by pulmonary edema, an accumulation of fluid in the lungs on the fourth day of her climb on Mount Kilimanjaro. She was leading a team of climbers to raise funds for a sport charity.

A preacher in the United States has been found guilty of kidnapping a teenage girl and holding her captive for nine months. Brian Mitchell forced Elizabeth Smart into a polygamous marriage after he abducted her eight years ago when she was 14. Rajesh Mirchandani reports from Los Angeles.

Elizabeth Smart was just 14 when she was taken at knifepoint from her bed and held captive by Brian David Mitchell in 2002. She told the court she was forced into a polygamous marriage, tied to a metal post, raped on a daily basis and made to use alcohol and drugs. Her ordeal lasted for nine months until she was spotted in Salt Lake City with her captor and his wife.

Motor sport's governing body has dropped its ban on Formula 1 teams using radio orders to drivers to affect the outcome of races. The issue of team orders caused controversy this year when Ferrari apparently ordered Felipe Massa to let his teammate Fernando Alonso overtake him at the German Grand Prix. Ferrari was subsequently fined $100,000.

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