BBC News with Sue Montgomery
President Obama has paid tribute to the demonstrators who were beaten and teargassed by police 50 years ago in Alabama as the march for the rights of black people to vote. Speaking in Selma at the Edmund Pettus bridge where much of the violence took place, President Obama praised the courage of Americans who proved the peaceful protest could lead to change. But he added that more are need to be done to bring about equality in the America.
We just need to open our eyes and our ears and our hearts to know that this nation’s racial history still passed its long shadow upon us. We know the march is not yet over. We know the racism is not yet won. We know that reaching that blessed destination where we are judged all of us by the content of our character requires admitting as much facing up to the truth.
Pictures of the brutal repression in 1965 changed the American public opinion, clearing the way for the voting rights act which allowed black people to vote.
At least 50 people have been killed and many others wounded in a spate of suicide bombings in the northeastern Nigerian city Maiduguri. The birthplace of the militant Islamic group Boko Haram. Richard Hamilton reports.
The first attack happened in a busy fish market when a women with the explosives strapped her body got out the motorised rickshaw and blew herself up. Boko Haram often uses women and girls as young as 7 as suicide bombers as they attempt to escape detection. The second occurred at another popular market and the third blast struck a crowded bus station. Boko Haram has relentlessly attacked Maiduguri throughout its six year uprising. The city is its birthplace and would be capital of an Islamic caliphate that they hope to establish.
Boko Haram has reportedly pledged the allegiance to the Islamic state group in Iraq and Syria. In an audio message released in a twitter account used by Boko Haram, a voice believed be that of the movement’s leader Abubakar Shekau makes the announcement in the past Boko Haram is thought to has links with Al-Qaeda.
The first of a series of remembrance services has been held in Malaysia a year after fight MH370 disappeared with 239 people on board. Malaysia’s deputy foreign minister was among those taking part. The BBC’s Jennifer P was there.
A few of the family members of the cabin crew on MH370 have gathered here to remember their loved ones and here is a board filled with well wishes and their pictures as it says pray for MH370. Here is a message that says a someone they called ‘Daddy’ which clearly from a muslim family member wishing peace upon their father. Here is another one at the bottom corner that says ‘we are still waiting for you’.
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Several foreign oil workers have gone missing in Libya after gunmen attacked a remote oil field on Friday. The Czekh foreign ministry said the group included a Czekh citizen along with others from Austria, Bangladesh and the Philippines is not clear whether they've been kidnapped.
United Nation’s culture agency UNESCO has condemned the destruction of the remains of the ancient Iraqi city of Hatra by Islamic state militants as a part of the strategy of culture cleansing. It's the second important site to be destroyed by militants this week. Allen Johnston reports.
More than 2,000 years after Hatra was founded its ruins remain an impressive site, with their walls and columns and arches rising high above the desert. But how much of all that remains now? Local people say they've heard explosions from the ruins and the militants moved in with bulldozers. The reports from Hatra come just days after they admit that IS has been destroying the nearby site of the ancient city of Nimrud.
The Peruvian government has withdrawn its ambassador to Chile as a part of deepening row over alleged military espionage. The Peruvian foreign ministry said its ambassador would not return to Santiago until they received the assurances that there would be no further spy. The relations between the two countries deteriorated last month when Peru said they had evidence that Chile had paid three members of the Peruvian navy to pass on confidential information. Chile has denied the involvement in espionage.
One of the Sierra Leone’s top athletes who went missing after the Commonwealth Games last year in Scotland is facing deportation from Britain after been discovered living on the street. Jimmy Thoronka told the Guardian Newspaper that while participating in the Games he was devastated by news that his immediate family in Sierra Leone had died of Ebola.