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| "I'm scared to sleep", tearful Pistorius tells court | |  By David Dolan PRETORIA (Reuters) - His voice cracking with emotion, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defence on Monday, saying the Valentine's Day shooting of his girlfriend last year had left him sleepless, terrified and plagued by nightmares. The disabled South African track star, on trial for murder, also apologised to the mother of model Reeva Steenkamp, saying he fired four times through a toilet door at his luxury Pretoria home in the belief he was defending her from an intruder. Steenkamp, a law graduate and model, was hit by at least three rounds fired by Pistorius, one of which - to the head - killed her almost instantly, the court has heard. Reeva's mother June Steenkamp, sitting in the public gallery of the packed Pretoria courtroom, bowed her head and remained steely faced.
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| Fighting in Palestinian camp in south Lebanon kills five | | | At least five people were killed in fighting on Monday between Palestinian factions in a refugee camp near Lebanon's southern city of Sidon, local sources said. They said the fighting broke out between fighters from a group orginally linked to Palestinian President Mohammad Abbas's Fatah group and a rival militant organisation. It was not immediately clear what triggered the clashes in the Mieh Mieh camp, in which at least 10 people were wounded. Fatah and a range of Islamist factions compete for influence in Mieh Mieh and the nearby Ain al-Hilweh, two of the 12 Palestinian camps in Lebanon that are home to more than 200,000 registered refugees. |
| Two United Nations workers killed in Somalia - spokesman | | | MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Two male expatriate consultants working for the United Nations in Somalia were shot dead on Monday, at Galkayo Airport in north central Somalia, said a U.N. spokesman. Aleem Siddique, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) said the U.N. would not release the names and nationalities of the two workers until their families had been notified of their death. (Reporting by Drazen Jorgic; Editing by James Macharia) |
| Emotional Pistorius takes stand in own defence at murder trial | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defence at his murder trial on Monday, saying the shooting of his girlfriend had left him sleepless, terrified and plagued by nightmares. He also apologised to the mother of Reeva Steenkamp in the public gallery, saying he fired four shots through a toilet door in the early hours of Valentine's Day last year in the belief that he was defending her from an intruder. "I was simply trying to protect Reeva," he told the court, his voice quavering with emotion. ...
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| Egypt court upholds jailing of prominent pro-democracy activists | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian appeals court upheld on Monday the jailing of three prominent liberal pro-democracy activists, the judge said. Last December, a court handed out three-year jail sentences to Ahmed Maher, Ahmed Douma and Mohamed Adel, symbols of the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, for protesting without permission and assaulting the police. (Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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