Brazil’s impeachment of its president will serve little on its own, but must be the catalyst to drive changes in a country languishing, writes Luiz Felipe d’Avila

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was abducted by gunmen who snatched him from his hotel and held him for several hours in apparent retaliation for a US special forces raid that captured an al Qaida suspect in Tripoli last weekend.

Libyan militias operating alongside the defence ministry readied their forces to advance on a town that remains a bastion of support for the ousted regime of Muammar Gaddafi, stoking fears of an impending battle that has already sent dozens of families fleeing.

UN peacekeepers found the bodies of a dozen shot civilians yesterday in an eastern Congo village occupied by Tutsi rebels who have seized fresh territory in North Kivu province, witnesses and a UN spokesman said.

FREE Catholic education could become a thing of the past if trusts replacing religious orders who pull out of hundreds of secondary schools are not run properly.