BBC News with Jerry Smit
The head of the United Nations observer team for Syria have arrived there to (take charge of) the advance deployment. The Norwegian general, Robert Mood, and his team will have the job of monitoring a poorly observed ceasefire that's now in its third week. Jim Muir reports.
Major General Mood faces a (daunting) task, and he knows it. Arriving in Damascus, he said he believed the observer team he will be heading can make a difference, but he cautioned against any expectations that they alone can achieve miracles. So far there are only 30 observers now in the country. Major General Mood said that number would double in the coming days and build up rapidly to the (full strength) of 300. Some predictions, however, have been that it may take many weeks for that to happen as it's proving a painfully slow process.
Sudan says more than 12,000 citizens from South Sudan must leave the country within a week. The governor of White Nile state, Yousif Al-Shenbali, said their presence in Sudanese territory posed a threat to security and the environment. Sudan and South Sudan have (clashed over) a disputed oil-rich border area in recent weeks.
Police in Mexico are investigating the death of a journalist in the eastern state of Veracruz. Regina Martinez reported on (drug trafficking) for the weekly investigative news magazine Proceso. Will Grant has the details.
Regina Martinez's body was discovered in her home after a neighbour had alerted the police. There were signs of (heavy blows) to her face and body, the state attorney general's office said, and it appears she was asphyxiated. The governor of Veracruz has ordered what he called an exhaustive investigation into her death. Media watchdogs and human rights organisations consider Mexico to be one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist, and Regina Martinez's murder comes just days after two journalists were among 15 people killed in a shooting in a bar in Ciudad Juarez.
One of the most prominent Libyans to defect from Colonel Gaddafi's regime during the uprising last year has been found dead in (Vienna). The former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem was 69 and had been living in Europe with his family. From the Austrian capital, here's Bethany Bell.
A police spokesman, Roman Hahslinger, told the BBC that Mr Ghanem's body was found in the Danube river in Vienna early on Sunday morning, near a popular recreation area. He said the body did not appear to have been in the water very long and showed no (external signs) of violence. Mr Hahslinger says the cause of death was not immediately clear and an autopsy has been ordered.
The Red Cross in Pakistan says one of its British aid workers has been killed by his captors in the southwestern province of Balochistan. Doctor Khalil Rasjed Dale was (abducted from) the city of Quetta in January. Police said his beheaded body was found on Sunday morning along with a note which said he was killed by the Pakistani Taliban. Balochistan province is suffering from a separatist insurgency.