Gunmen kill U.N. official at mosque
Gunmen opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Mogadishu, killing one of the country's senior U.N. officials and wounding his son and another man, a witness and a family member said.
Attacks on officials, including those working for the U.N. or aid agencies, are common in Somalia, where Islamic insurgents have vowed to wage an Iraq-style insurgency against the country's U.N.-supported government.
Osman Ali Ahmed, head of the U.N. Development Program for Somalia, died at the African Union hospital after being shot in the head, his wife said.
TURKEY
Ex-officers held in alleged coup plotTwo retired generals were jailed in connection with an alleged plot to topple Turkey's Islamic-rooted government, the highest-ranking ex-soldiers detained as part of the inquiry.
The two were among 21 people rounded up in the last week in the investigation into an alleged secularist and nationalist network called Ergenekon, the state-run Anatolia news agency said.
Retired Gen. Hursit Tolon, who once headed the paramilitary force, and former top army commander Sener Eruygur, who helped organize anti-government rallies last year, were being held at an Istanbul jail.
BRITAIN
Stabbing victim's parents issue pleaThe parents of Gabriel Ferez, a French student stabbed to death in London, called for his killer or killers to turn themselves in.
Police released without charge the only person arrested in connection with the June 29 deaths of Ferez and Laurent Bonomo.
The men, both 23-year-old graduate students, were bound and stabbed at Bonomo's rented apartment. Bonomo had been stabbed nearly 200 times, Ferez nearly 50 times.
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