A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Men accused of killing boy are named
LONDON - Two brothers accused of killing Nigerian schoolboy Damilola Taylor were named yesterday after a court lifted a restriction preventing their identities being published.
Danny and Ricky Preddie, who were cleared of murder in April, are accused of the manslaughter of the 10-year-old, who bled to death in a stairwell on a rundown estate in Peckham, south London, in November 2000. - (Reuters)
Obasanjo accepts assembly verdict
ABUJA - Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday accepted the verdict of the national assembly ruling out an extension of his tenure and called on the ruling party to prepare for elections next year. - (Reuters)
25,000 march over killing in Turkey
ANKARA - More than 25,000 people marched yesterday in defence of secularism in mainly Muslim Turkey, shocked by the killing of a leading judge by a religious gunman.
Angry crowds outside the Ankara mosque where the funeral of slain judge Mustafa Ozbilgin was being held pushed government ministers on their way inside. - (Reuters)
Nepal's king to be stripped of power
KATHMANDU - Nepal's parliament yesterday approved a sweeping plan to curtail the powers of the king and take away his control over the army.
The landmark decision came less than a month after often-violent mass protests pressured King Gyanendra to reinstate parliament. - (Reuters)
Executive admits role in scandal
PARIS - A senior French arms industry executive has admitted writing an anonymous letter at the heart of a dirty tricks scandal shaking the government, but denied it was to help prime minister Dominique de Villepin smear interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Jean-Louis Gergorin said he alerted Mr de Villepin to a list of suspicious bank accounts, but did not mention Mr Sarkozy. - (Reuters)