Lawyers for the Bodo community in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta, which was devastated by two major oil spills a decade ago, have gone to court in London to fend off what they say is an attempt by Shell to kill off their litigation.

Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from oil spills, according to a geologist.

Police shot at violent mobs in north-eastern India, killing 14 people and raising the death toll from three days of ethnic clashes to at least 30, officials said today. About 25,000 villagers have fled their homes, they said.

Former Manchester City and Southampton striker Uwe Rosler has been diagnosed with chest cancer.

Nearly a dozen armed tribal separatists have raided a village in India's remote north-east and killed 16 people after ordering them to line up.