18 February 2013 Last updated at 21:07 ET Nestle, the world’s biggest food company, has removed beef pasta meals from shelves in Italy and Spain after tests revealed traces of horse DNA.The Swiss-based firm has halted deliveries of products containing meat from a German supplier.Nestle is the latest in a string of major food producers [...]

18 February 2013 Last updated at 21:45 ET The economy has been the major issue in the build-up to the election Armenian President Serge Sarkisian has won a second five-year term in office, according to official results.With ballots from all precincts now counted, Mr Sarkisian received nearly 59% of the vote.His closest rival, Raffi Hovannisian, [...]

19 February 2013 Last updated at 06:11 ET Ms Ramphele says she will fight corruption in government South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) has dismissed the launch of a new party by former businesswoman Mamphela Ramphele.The ANC said Ms Ramphele was “goading” South Africans to be on the political periphery. On Monday, she launched [...]

19 February 2013 Last updated at 05:46 ET Relatives of those killed in Saturday’s blast are refusing to bury the bodies Pakistani police say they have arrested 170 suspects after a bomb attack on Saturday which targeted a Shia Muslim area in the western city of Quetta.Security sources said police killed four people, including a [...]

19 February 2013 Last updated at 00:55 ET Shanghai Shenhua was found guilty of bribing officials to fix a league match China’s football association has banned 33 players and officials for life after a three-year probe into match-fixing.The Shanghai Shenhua club was also fined 1m yuan (£103,000) and stripped of its 2003 league victory for [...]

19 February 2013 Last updated at 05:15 ET BBC Chinese service editor Raymond Li: “In China, everything about the military is top secret”A secretive branch of China’s military is most likely one of the world’s “most prolific cyber espionage groups”, a US cyber security firm has said. Mandiant said Unit 61398 was believed to have [...]

19 February 2013 Last updated at 05:34 ET Police found a burned-out vehicle close to the airportArmed robbers have made off with a “gigantic” haul of diamonds after a daring raid at Brussels Airport.They broke through a fence on Monday evening and stole gems worth tens of millions of euros as they were being loaded [...]

19 February 2013 Last updated at 06:14 ET Reeva Steenkamp’s brother Adam: “There’s a space missing in all the people… she knew”South African athletics star Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend by shooting her through a bathroom door at his home, prosecutors told a court.Details of the prosecution’s case against Mr Pistorius, accused of the premeditated [...]

18 February 2013 Last updated at 22:37 ET The air drop triggered a diplomatic incident, with Belarus expelling Swedish diplomats A court in Belarus has sentenced a border guard to two years in prison for failing to stop a plane dropping hundreds of teddy bears carrying pro-democracy messages over the country.The Supreme Court said the [...]

18 February 2013 Last updated at 23:08 ET New Zealand said packaging would carry graphic health warnings, as in Australia New Zealand says it will put all tobacco products into plain packaging, following the landmark move by Australia last year. A review had shown it would help reduce the appeal of smoking and better publicise [...]