BBC news with Jonathan Izard.
Pakistan has accused the U.S. of deliberately sabotaging its efforts to start peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban by killing their top commander in a drone strike. Reports say the militants have buried their leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a secret location in the tribal region of northwest Pakistan. Here's our world affairs correspondent Rajesh Mirchandani.
When Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited president Obama in Washington last week, the two leaders spoke of the resilient nature of the relationship between their countries. It has been severely tested now. Mr Sharif raised the issue of drone strike during his visit, yet despite Mr Sharif's demands for the U.S. to stop using drones. Soon after he returned home from his visit, America struck again on the eve of dialogue with the Taliban. However pleased the Pakistani government may be, the vicious killer has been removed, it's tampered by anger of about how it was done.
The French Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two French journalists working for the broadcast Radio France International had been killed in northern Mali,the bodies of Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon were found after they have been kidnapped by armed men in the town of Kidal. Mark Doyle reports from Bamako.
The two journalists were seized by four armed men after they interviewed a senior regional politician at his house in centre Kidal. Well-informed sources in Kidal said the men bundled the two into a yellow pickup truck as they left the house and drove them at speed into the surrounding desert.The journalists' employer Radio de France international said they were reported to have been killed shortly afterwards on a desert truck that leads eastwards out of Kidal. This incident took place in broad daylight very close to a base housing several hundred French soldiers and United Nations' peacekeepers.