SOUTH AFRICA: At least 14 artisanal miners have been killed and scores injured at a disused mine, police said today. The South African Police Service said the miners had been found dead at a mine near the city of Rustenburg, around 80 miles north-west of Johannesburg. LEBANON: Parliament abolished the death penalty today, making Lebanon the first country in the Arab world to replace the execution with life imprisonment and aggravated hard labour. However, dozens of death sentences have been issued since then, only to be suspended or commuted later. AUSTRALIA: Community and Public Sector Union national secretary Melissa Donnelly is to become next head of the country’s trade union movement, following the resignation of Sally McManus, it was announced today.