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　　A top Honduras businessman and four-timepresidential candidate Jaime Rolando Rosenthal hasbeen charged in the United States with drugtrafficking and money laundering. Leonardo Rochahas more.

　　“The US treasury department said the three men made illegal money transits for internationaldrug cartels operating across Central America. They come from one of the wealthiest and mostinfluential families in Honduras. Jaime Rolando Rosenthal is the head of the powerfulcontinental group, which owns a bank, a newspaper and a number of other businesses. Hisson Yani is a high profile politician. And his nephew Yankelserved as minister of investmentuntil June. He’s made his name in Honduras as president of Marathon, one of the country'sbiggest football clubs.”

　　A Brazilian court has ruled that president Dilma Rousseff broke the law in her management oflast year's budget accounts. The government was accused of borrowing money illegally fromstate banks to make up for short falls in the federal budget. The oppositions say the court'sdecision paves the way for an impeachmentprocess against president Rousseff, who wasreelected less than a year ago.

　　The lawyers for the president of FIFA Sepp Blatter say he has not been notified of any action bythe organizations' ethic committee to provisionally suspend him. He is accused of signing acontract unfavorable to football's governing body and making a 2 million dollar payment topresident of UEFA Michel Platini.Mr. Blatter denied any wrongdoing. Richard Convoy reports.

　　“The fates of both Sepp Blatter as FIFA president since 1998 and Michel Platini the man whowants to succeed him, now, hang in the balance. FIFA's ethics committee is said to haverequested Mr. Blatter be provisionally suspended for 90 days given he is the subject of Swisscriminal inquiry. There are reports that Mr. Platini, who was questioned on the same day asMr. Blatter would, also be suspended, the decision which will prevent him from standing as acandidate in next February’sFIFA election.”

　　The international medical charity MSF has reiterated its demand for an independentinvestigation into the US airstrike on its hospital in Afghanistan despite a personal apology bypresident Obama. MSF said the bombing in Konduzon Saturday must be investigated byinternational fact finding commission under the Geneva Conventions. The charity said it couldnot rely on internal probes by the US, NATO or Afghanistan. Earlier president Obamatelephoned the head of MSF to apologize what he described as a mistaken air strike whichkilled 22 staff and patients.

　　The spokesman for the UN secretary general says that rebel forces in Yemen have agreed tostop fighting. Stephane Dujarric said that the Houthi rebels had accepted a UN Security Councilresolution aimed at ending the conflict which has devastated Yemen in the past six months.

　　World news from the BBC.

　　Head of Volkswagen in the United States is expected to apologize to congress when heappears on Thursday to answer questions about the scandal concerning rigged engineemissions test. In testimony submitted in advance of his appearance, Michael Horn said heonly found out about the cheating software over the past several weeks.

　　A simple blood test refined by researchers in Scotland and United States could rule out adiagnosis of heart attack from majority of people attending hospital because of chest pains.Dominic Hughes has more.

　　“Chest pains can be a symptom of heart problems, they can also have other causes. A bloodtest which detects high levels of the protein troponin can confirm a heart attack is taking place.Now research carried out in Scotland and United States has led to the development of a muchmore sensitive troponin test that means many more patients could be quickly reassured theirchest pain is nothing to worry about.The next step is studying the results of a wider clinicaltrial that involves 26,000 people.”

　　Activists from a British feminist group have disrupted the European premiere of the filmsSufferagette in London. About a dozen women climbed over railings and lay down on the redcarpet shouting slogans and displaying posters condemning domestic violence. Sufferagettedescribed the struggle to win the vote waged by Britishwomen in the first part of the 20thcentury. Some of the film stars expressed support to the protestors, among them, actressHelena Bonham Carter. “This is actually what the film is promoting. If you have a voice, youknow, if you want it happen, you have the courage to lie down as they are doing, instead oflaying down what you believe in. This is great.”

　　And a group of inmates from a New York prison have beaten Harvard University's prestigiousdebating team, the top ranked clever in the world. The competition took place last month atthe eastern New York correctional facility and maximum security prison.