Catalonians are preparing to use a football match - Barcelona v. Real Madrid - to assert the call for independence reports The Times.

As an estimated 400 million viewers watch the match worldwide, Barcelona football fans are planning to recreate an enormous Catalan flag, holding up red or yellow cards to form the stripes of the flag.

The US and Peru decided to discuss and renew a 60-year-old defence cooperation agreement, on Saturday.

The US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the updated agreement would "improve our ability to conduct joint activities, to do training and other exchanges."

He added, 

The UN Security Council has condemned the Syrian attack of a Turkish village on Thursday, which killed five civilians, all of whom were women and children.

A UN statement said that the attack “underscored that this incident highlighted the grave impact the crisis in Syria has on the security of its neighbours and on regional peace and stability.”

Outcry has erupted in the Philippines over a recently passed internet freedom law that exposes users to prosecution related to libel.

The new law deems that even posts on social networking sites that have been deemed libellous can be taken to court, curbing freedom of expression.

Harry S. Roque, president of Media Defense South East Asiaamd law professor at the University of Philippines commented,

The high court in London has ruled that three Kenyans can proceed in their legal claims against the UK government for alleged torture during the Mau Mau uprising in 1950s. 

In his ruling, the judge Justice McCoombe said: "A fair trial for the Kenyans on this part of the case does remain possible and the evidence on both sides does remain significantly cogent for the court to complete its task satisfactorily."

The UK government has said although it acknowledges that detainees were tortured under the colonial administration, it does not accept liability and will appeal. 

Peace talks between the Colombian government and Farc will commence in Oslo on 15th October, with a joint news conference on 17th October.

Last week, the Colombian President Juan Manueal Santos, said he was "cautiously optimistic" that a peace deal could be reached.

Four Nigerian peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in Darfur.

Eight more soldiers, from the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission Unamid, were injured when their convoy was attacked on Tuesday.

"They were providing administrative and logistic support and they were moving from one of our camps to the other," said the spokesperson for Unamid, Chris Cycmanick.

Muslims from the town of Srebrenica have warned that the upcoming local elections could represent the “final step of a genocide” if Bosnian Serb candidates were to win.

The town, infamous for its massacre of 8,000 young Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, has seen many Muslims stripped of their voting rights this year after complex voting laws were enforced.

The move has sparked fears that a Serb majority would allow a Bosnian Serb candidate to succeed, reported Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

The number of Syrian refugees fleeing into neighboring countries has doubled since June to 300,000, said the UN Refugee Agency, warning that the number was likely to double again by the end of the year.

The spokesperson for UNHCR Adrian Edwards said,

“The latest figures show a total registered population of more than 311,500 Syrian refugees in the four countries (Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq.”

A Chinese firm has initiated legal action against US President Barak Obama, after he issued a presidential order, blocking the construction of wind farms on land owned by the firm.

Ralls Corp bought land near US navy facilities in the state of Oregon and planned to build wind farms.

However Obama blocked the construction and ordered the company to dismantle their facilities and sell the land.