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　　Rescue teams are struggling to reach remote areas of northern Pakistan and neighboringAfghanistan hit by a strong earthquake. More than 260 people are known to have died duringthe quake on Monday. Nearly 2000 people were injured. Innu Row is on the charity ConcernWorldwide in Kabul. The information is quite sketchy. It is coming from very remote areas. Theearthquake happened around 1:40 local time. And around 5 o'clock, it gets dark, so not verymuch assessments have been possible. Also some of the areas are insecure with the Talibanfighting.

　　American defense officials say a US navy ship in the South China Sea is preparing to sailtowards artificial islands built by China. They say the USS Lassen will patrol the area aroundthe Spratly archipelago and sail within a 12-nautical mile limit.

　　The British government has suffered a major setback in its efforts to cut billions of dollars inwelfare payments as part of plans to reduce the budget deficit. The newly elected upperchamber of parliament, the House of Lords, passed measures to delay the government’sproposals on reducing tax credits to workers on lower incomes. The Finance Minister GeorgeOsborne warned the move by the upper house raised constitutional issues. Russell Kenreports. Twice defeated in the House of Lords, the government must now live with theconsequences. Within an hour of the final vote, George Osborne announced a concession,although the reform will go ahead, he will now deliver a new policy certain to be presented byhis opponents as a climb-down. In challenging the government’s plans to cut tax credits, themajority of peers rejected arguments that they risked prompting a constitutional crisis.

　　The University of Mississippi in the southern United States has taken down the state flag fromits campus after complaints that its confederate battle emblem was too closely associated withslavery. Staff and students have voted overwhelmingly for the flag’s removal. The BBC's NickBrien sent this report. The University of Mississippi used to be regarded as one of the bastionof segregation. In the early 1960s it was the scene of Battle of Ole Miss where whitesupremacies fought with federal troops to block the admission of its first black student. So itsdecision to lower Mississippi State flag which features the confederate battle colors is loadedwith extra historical meaning.

　　The Columbian president Juan Manuel Santos says at least 12 members of the security forceshave been killed in clash with left-wing rebels. In a televised address, he said the attack wascarried out by members of the National Liberation Army or ELN. The defense ministry says therebels attacked soldiers and police who were carrying ballot boxes following regional elections inColumbia. World news from the BBC.

　　The Attorney General of Venezuela said she had sacked a prosecutor who fled the country aftercriticizing the imprisonment of the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. The Attorney General,Luisa Ortega said Franklin Nieves has abandoned his post. She denied that her office hadpressured officials to falsify evidence in the trial of Mr. Lopez who was sentenced last monthto 14 years in prison on charges of inciting violence during anti-government protests.

　　British police say they have arrested a 15-year-old boy in Northern Ireland in connection with acyber attack on one of the country’s biggest telecoms companies Talk Talk. They said he wasbeing held on suspicion of computer misuse offences following a search of the house inCounty Antrim. Laurel Cather Jones reports. The arrest comes four days after Talk Talkrevealed that it had been the victim of what it called a significant and sustained cyber attack.The following day, the firm's Chief Executive Dido Harding revealed that she had received aransom demand from someone claiming to be behind the attack but could not be certain thatit was the hackers. Talk Talk remains under pressure. Share price closed down 12 percent onMonday and it has now lost nearly a quarter of its value.

　　Eight senior football executives have put their names forward as candidates to succeed SappBlotter as president of the governing body FIFA. The deadline for nomination has now passed.The latest to announce their bids were Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, president of theAsian Football Federation and Gianni Infartino, Secretary General of UEFA, the European body.Elections will take place next February.

　　One of the greatest names in German football, Franz Beckonbauer has admitted making mistakein his country’s bidding process to host the 2006 World Cup, but he has denied allegations thatvotes were bought. Beckonbauer was the head of the German World Cup Organizing Committeewhich is alleged to have made a payment to the sprot's governing body FIFA. The BBC news.