NIGERIA: The army reported Sunday that it had regained Chibok from Boko Haram after fierce fighting on Saturday.

Brigadier General Olajide Olaleye said the town was "firmly in the hands of the Nigerian army. Free. Secured."

Chibok became notorious after Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls from it in April, threatening to sell them as child brides. The Islamist group seized control of it on Thursday.

IRAN: A judge and former Tehran prosecutor was disbarred and banned from all government positions for five years at the weekend.

The Supreme Court ruled that Saeed Mortazavi was responsible for the deaths of three prisoners under torture during protests against the disputed re-election of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The three died in Kahrizak prison, which was run by Mr Mortazavi.

NETHERLANDS: The transport of poultry and eggs was banned Sunday after a bird flu outbreak at a chicken farm was confirmed.

Ministry of Economic Affairs spokesman Jan van Diepen said the exact strain of the virus, which was deadly to birds and could infect humans, had not been identified.

All 150,000 chickens at the Hekendorp farm were being slaughtered, the Dutch government said.

The ban will last three days.

AFGHANISTAN: A suicide bomber lightly injured one of the country's few female MPs Sunday in a botched assassination attempt which killed three other people.

Shukria Barakzai's car was rammed by another vehicle, whose driver then detonated explosives. A small girl was among the dead.

Ms Barakzai is a prominent campaigner for women's rights and has earned the hatred of the Taliban for it.