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Two men charged over woods attack

Detectives investigating how a woman was left abandoned and in a distressed state in woodland have charged a man and a teenage boy.

The 25-year-old and the 17-year-old have been charged in connection with attempted murder and kidnap.

They were arrested after the 27-year-old woman was found near Woodsome Hall Golf Club, Huddersfield, on Saturday night.

They will appear before Huddersfield Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

The 25-year-old man has also been charged with possession of a weapon for discharge of electrical incapacitant.

Another man, aged 49, and a 46-year-old woman are also being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder.

Police want to speak to anyone who saw a Vauxhall Astra car in the area.

West Yorkshire police believe the woman might have been taken from an address in Penistone Road, Huddersfield, after 2300 BST on Saturday.

The woman received minor injuries and has received medical treatment.

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Murray hits back against Troicki

Andy Murray loses the first two sets against Viktor Troicki but hits back to level the match before bad light ends play at the French Open.

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Valcke denies 2022 ‘bought’ claim

Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke denies Jack Warner’s claim in an e-mail that Mohamed Bin Hammam “bought” the 2022 World Cup finals for Qatar.

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X Factor judging panel finally revealed

Three singers join X Factor judging panel

Further blasts in Nigeria’s north

Nigeria's Vice-President, Namadi Sambo (centre), in Zaria (28 April 2011)

Vice-President Namadi Sambo’s house in Zaria was torched during April’s post-election violence

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At least six people have been injured by two explosions in the hometown of Nigeria’s Vice-President, Namadi Sambo, officials have said.

The blasts in the northern city of Zaria struck a bar on Sunday night and the old quarter on Monday morning.

There are also reports of an attack on a military patrol in Maiduguri.

At least 10 people were killed by a bombing at a market place in Bauchi on Sunday evening, hours after President Goodluck Jonathan’s inauguration.

No group has yet said it was behind the series of attacks.

The BBC’s Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar in Kaduna says the two bombings in nearby Zaria targeted a beer parlour in the government reservation and an old part of the city. Two children were injured in the latter attack.

Kaduna state police spokesman Aminu Lawal said the blasts were both caused by “locally-made explosive devices”.

Aftermath of bomb blasts in Bauchi (30 May 2011)

The Bauchi attack came only hours after President Jonathan was sworn in for his first full term

“We have intensified security in the affected areas and we have deployed more patrol teams,” he told the AFP news agency.

On Sunday, three explosions at the Mamy market attached to the Shadawanka barracks in the city of Bauchi killed 14 people and injured 29 others, the chairman of the Bauchi state emergency operations team told the BBC.

The BBC’s Ishaq Khalid says that although the site has been cordoned off by security forces, he saw a great deal of devastation there.

The bombs were planted in three different locations in the popular market area, where traders sell food, drink and other goods to soldiers and civilians in the evening, our correspondent says.

Police said they were still investigating the explosions, and were not yet able to say who they believed were behind them. It was also not clear if they are connected to the blasts in Zaria and Maiduguri.

Man injured by bomb blasts in Bauchi (30 May 2011)

The blasts at the Mamy market injured 29 people

The Bauchi attack came only hours after President Jonathan was sworn in for his first full four-year term of office in the capital, Abuja.

Mr Jonathan was promoted from vice-president after northerner Umaru Yar’Adua died in office in 2010.

April’s election was largely considered free and fair, but hundreds of people were killed in three days of rioting and reprisal killings in northern towns following the announcement of the result.

Mr Jonathan secured nearly 60% of the vote in the election. His main challenger, northern Muslim and former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, came a distant second with almost 32%.

Analysts say that Mr Jonathan will have to tackle the Christian-Muslim conflict and also the simmering tension in the oil-producing Niger Delta.

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Daredevil cheese chasers roll on

About 200 people gather at Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire for an unofficial cheese-rolling contest.

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Obama names new US military boss

President Barack Obama names General Martin Dempsey as his choice to be the new chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the highest US military post.

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Poisoning shuts China factories

China detains more than 70 people after adults and children fall ill with possible lead poisoning from battery factories.

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Yemen forces ‘kill 20 protesters’

Yemeni troops moved in to sweep the protest camp from the centre of Taiz, witnesses say

Security forces in Yemen have shot dead at least 20 anti-government protesters in the southern city of Taiz, medics and organisers say.

Soldiers reportedly moved in to end a four-month-old sit-in in the city.

Meanwhile, four Yemeni soldiers have been killed in an apparent ambush near the city of Zinjibar, reportedly held by al-Qaeda fighters, officials say.

President Ali Abdullah Saleh refuses to step down despite months of protests and strong opposition from a key tribe.

A protest organiser told AFP that security forces backed by army and Republican Guard troops drove the demonstrators out of Freedom Square in the city centre.

“At least 20 protesters have been killed,” the organiser said.

Earlier reports quoting witnesses and doctors said security forces attacked protesters with rifles and water cannon and set fire to their camp.

Sadek al-Shugaa, head of a field hospital at the protest camp, was quoted by AP news agency as saying soldiers fired into the crowds indiscriminately.

In Zinjibar, security officials said the soldiers died when their convoy came under attack.

“A convoy of reinforcements fell in an ambush by al-Qaeda elements 1km from Zinjibar. Four soldiers, including a colonel, were killed and a number of others were wounded,” the security official said.

Government reports from Zinjibar suggested the town had been seized some days ago by gunmen from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

A battle has reportedly been going on since as forces loyal to President Saleh try to take it back.

However, there are conflicting accounts of the loyalties of the armed men.

The government has blamed previous attacks in southern Yemen on al-Qaeda, but the country’s opposition has accused President Saleh of stoking fears of an Islamist takeover.

The opposition coalition Common Forum said Mr Saleh had “delivered Zinjibar to groups that he has formed and armed, to continue to utilise the spectre of al-Qaeda to frighten regional and international parties”.

On Sunday, President Saleh and the country’s most powerful tribal leader agreed a ceasefire after five days of fighting in the capital Sanaa, a mediator said.

More than 100 people have died in clashes between forces loyal to Hashid leader Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar and President Saleh.

The fighting had threatened to push Yemen into civil war.

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Ms Lagarde announced her candidacy for the IMF’s top job last week

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Christine Lagarde is planning to visit China, India and Brazil to drum up support for her bid to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

The French finance minister said she wanted to visit the three countries in an effort to ease concerns over her candidacy.

Emerging economies have voiced their concerns over the continuing hold of European nations over the IMF.

All 10 of the fund’s managing directors since its inception have been European.

Leaders of developing economies have voiced their displeasure, saying that the head of a global body should be chosen purely on merit.

India’s prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh was quoted as saying “We would like to remind the industrialised world that there is a tacit agreement that the top positions in international financial institutions must not go to specific countries as a matter of right,” according to a transcript of comments issued by the Foreign Ministry.

“You do recognise that those who exercise power, they don’t want to give up power and therefore the struggle for a better, balanced world order, a more equitable world order… is going to be a long haul”

Dr Manmohan Singh Indian prime minister

The balance of global financial power has changed drastically in the past few years.

Economies like China and India have grown at a much faster pace that those in the developed world, making them increasingly important players on the world stage.

However their influence at global bodies like the IMF has not altered much during the same period.

And India’s prime minister Dr Singh said it will take a long time for that change to happen.

“You do recognise that those who exercise power, they don’t want to give up power and therefore the struggle for a better, balanced world order, a more equitable world order, including the management of global institutions like the IMF, World Bank, Security Council… it is going to be a long haul, I am afraid,” he said.

His views were echoed by Professor Charles Adams of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore, who said that though the IMF had been moving in the right direction, the pace had been too slow.

“We have seen some changes in the IMF away from the European and major advanced economies to the emerging market economies, but it has been slow, at times painful,” he said.

“It does not yet reflect the economic reality,” he added.

The French foreign minister Alain Juppe said that Ms Lagarde had received the backing of the leaders of the Group of Eight Nations (G8) of developed economies.

“Among the eight heads of state and government, plus the president of the European Commission and the president of the European Council who were there (at the G8 meeting in Deauville, France), there was unanimous support for Christine Lagarde,” Mr Juppe was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency.

The Group of Eight Nations represents some of the biggest and most powerful economies in the world.

Its members are the US, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada and Russia.

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