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BBC news 2013-11-21

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The French authorities say police have arrested a man on suspicion of opening fire on the offices of a newspaper and a bank in the capital Paris. Christian Fraser reports.

For three days, they hunted him there was discernible anxiety on the part of the authorities that this man would strike again. Their tip-off came from a member of the public, who spotted him in a car in an underground car park in the western suburb of Bois-Colombes. There are reports police are yet speak to this man who is incapacitated when arrested, possibly because of an overdose. That has not be confirmed by the prosecutor, but the authorities say he does bear a strong resemblance to the man who walked into the office of a national newspaper, liberation on Monday, shooting a 23-year-old photographer twice in the back. Soon after that attack, the gunman appeared in a business district of La Defense,firing wildly at the offices of the French bank Societe Generale. But he evaded police by hijacking a passing car, he was dropped on the Champs Elysees and have not been seen since.

The government of the Central African Republic said it's in negotiations with the fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony, the government's spokesman told the BBC that Joseph Kony was in the Central African Republic but wanted his security to be guaranteed before he gave himself up. Richard Hamilton reports.

This is the first time for many years that whereabouts of Joseph Kony have been revealed, the leader of the lord's resistance army, stands at the very top of the international criminal court's most wanted list for crimes against humanity and war crimes including rape, murder and recruiting child soldiers. The LRA is believed to have killed 100,000 people in a two-decade-long reign of terror.

The United States has described as positive the latest international talks on Iran's nuclear program, but said it is in no rush to get any deal done. A senior U.S. official said it will be hard to reach an agreement during the talks which resumed between Iran and world powers in Geneva. Iran's foreign minister said he had a positive meeting with the European Union's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton who is mediating at the talks, her spokesman Micheal Mann told the BBC that they would determine to reach a lasting agreement.

No body is pretending this is gonna to be simpler and it is often tieing up for final details, so this is the difficult bit, so you know, I think we have come here with the message that Catherine Ashton wants to negotiate extremely hard to find a sustainable and robust deal, we made a lot of progress,there are still differences clearly between us, that's why we are not able to tie the deal last time,we're gonna to just keep working very hard to make sure that we move things forward. Micheal Mann.

The American Secretary of State John Kerry says the U.S. and Afghanistan have reached an agreement on the final terms of a security deal that will determine the presence of U.S. troops in the country after 2014. Mr Kerry says the draft text will be put to a council of Afghan tribal elders for approval on Thursday.

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Fierce fighting is continuing around the Syrian town of Qara, a day after forces loyal to president Bashar al-Assad took it from rebels. Two suicide bombers killed ten people at a security post and another two bombers blew themselves up outside a hospital. A BBC reporter embedded with government forces says the fighting caused the army to close a major highway, suggesting that the battle in the area could escalate.

Scientists say a meteorite discovered in the Saharan desert is the oldest chunk of rock ever found for Mars, the researchers say the stone was from a time when mars was a relatively new planet as Rebecca Morelle reports.

Dark and glossy, this piece of Mars that felt is nicknamed the black beauty, it measures just six centimeters across, but researchers say it gives us a wealth of information about the earliest years of the red planet. Tests have shown that the rock dates to 4.4 billion years ago, making it the most ancient Marxian meteorite ever found. It tells from a time when mars were just 100 million years old, this was a turbulent period and scientists believed the piece have crust formed as volcanoes erupted all over the planet's surface.

The funerals have taken place in the Egypt of eleven soldiers who are killed in a car bomb attack in northern Sinai. The interim president Adly Mansour has declared three days of national mourning, the soldiers were travelling home on leave when a booby-trapped car exploded, ripping through their bus near the town of El-Arish.

The British scientist Frederick Sanger who twice won the Nobel Prize for chemistry has died at the age of 95. He was honored in 1958 for work dealing with the structure of proteins, plants and animals. Two decades later, he shared the prize for research into the formation of DNA. His work helped lay the foundations for the decoding of human geno.

Those are the latest stories from BBC news.