A British grandmother arrested on drugs charges in Indonesia was yesterday (22 January 2013) sentenced to death by firing squad by judges in a Bali court.

An unarmed teacher at a California high school has thwarted a serious shooting incident, by talking a gunman into putting down his weapon.

Data analysis suggests that the death toll in the ongoing conflict in Syria has surpassed 60,000, says the United Nations human rights office.

In his final BBC Thought for the Day before retiring, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has talked about the corruption of a gun-toting culture.