BBC News with Iain Purdon.
After eight days of fighting, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has begun. The deal was announced in Cairo by the Egyptian foreign minister flanked by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Speaking through an interpreter, the Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal said Hamas had won a victory in Gaza and Israel had failed in all its goals.
This is not a traditional war, this is not a battle between two sides. It is a treacherous cowardly aggression against our people in Gaza that an initiated they did, a response and reaction for that, and eight days later, the God has forced the [homes] of [desire less] to [saw/sew] pity of our people in Gaza and they has submitted it to the conditions of the resistance and affections.
At an earlier news conference in Jerusalem, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it was right for Israeli to try to achieve a lasting ceasefire.
It is true that some citizens expected a stronger major operation. But this time, it was necessary for Israel to take advantage of this opportunity and agree ceasefire. I had to take the necessary measures to protect our security.
The deals states that Israel and Hamas will stop all hostilities to and from the Gaza. Israeli is to stop targeted the assassinations while Palestinian militants have to stop all rocket fire and attacks along the border. Jon Leyne has the details.
The obvious based our complete cessation of hostilities from both sides and including Israeli agree not targeted individuals inside the Gaza Strip. They also talk about opening the crossings between Gaza and Israel that does seem to be commitments to open up Gaza that's the big concession to the Palestinians. Egypt is coming in as a responsive this agreement very important. But other things that's missing it's not written on this paper is what they are going to do about Gaza, Egypt border, to what extent Egypt is going to step up placing of that border to prevents missiles and militants getting through them.
The latest conflict has claimed the lives over 155 Palestinians and five Israelis. Before the ceasefire was announced, at least 21 people were injured in a bomb blast on a bus in Tel Aviv while in Gaza at least 30 people were killed.
The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila says he has ready to look into the grievances of the M23 rebel group who on Tuesday seized the eastern city of Goma. Mr Kabila said he would consider negotiating with the group.
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Nato says Turkey has asked to deploy Patriot Missiles on its territory near its border with Syria. The Nato Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the deployment would help Turkey to defend its population and territory. And the alliance would discuss the request without delay. Turkey has complained of cross border shelling from Syria.
There is a new tension between South Sudan and Sudan after the South accuses its neighbour of bombing one of its border towns. Sudan says it did carry out the attack, but said it was on its own territory near where Darfur rebels set up a compound close to the loosely demarcated border.
The European space agency has secured $12bn budget over three years to fund projects seen as vital to maintain its competitiveness and space technology and exploration. The agency's director general says spending on space was an investment. Jonathan Amos reports.
Europe maybe in the mid of the financial crisis but research ministers still managed to fund healthy budget for Esa. One of the most interesting proposals was to see Esa for the first time getting involved in a system to transport humans in space. The agency will build the module that come to propel the American's Orion astronaut capsule. It will have its first flight around the moon in 2017. Ministers also agreed to upgrade the Europe's rocket Arian 5 by making it more powerful and versatile. They want to protect its market leading position in the face of new and cheaper rockets.
And finally, music from a newly discovered 12th Century prayerbook will be performed this evening for the first time in hundreds of years. Archivists in the Scottish town of [Holick] stumbled across the manuscript containing the Latin text and chance for her mass. It was hidden in a bundle of papers belong into a prominent local family. The vellum scroll have been wrapped up for so long that it had to be gently steamed open.
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