2. Hillary Clinton is answering to Republican criticism of the Obama administration's handling of the attack at the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The secretary of state is saying she, and not the White House, is responsible for security at all of America's diplomatic missions.

 

 

 

3. Friends and former colleagues mourned the loss of former senator Arlen Specter, calling him "an irreplaceable man". Vice President Joe Biden and former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell were among hundreds attending the funeral in a Philadelphia suburb.

 

 

 

4. And the thieves who broke into a Dutch art museum have made off with paintings that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The works were by artists including Picasso, Monet and Matisse. An expert says the robbers clearly knew what they were after.