News Headlines - 06 October 2013

▽US commandos capture al-Qa’ida leader in Libya raid - The Independent

US military forces have launched morning anti-terror raids across Africa, moving to capture prominent leaders from both the al-Qa’ida and al-Shabaab movements. Troops described by witnesses as “commandos” seized al-Qa’ida’s Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas al-Libi, outside his home in Tripoli, Libya.

▽Official confirms 4 suspects’ names in Kenya mall attack

A military spokesman on Saturday confirmed the names of four men implicated in the attack on an upscale mall in Kenya's capital last month, an assault that turned into a four-day-long siege and killed at least 67 people.

▽Iraq Suicide Blasts Kill 27, Many of Them Children - ABC News

Suicide car bombers attacked an elementary school and a police station in a small northern Iraqi village on Sunday while another on foot detonated his payload among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, killing at least 27 people including children, officials said.

▽Inspectors begin destroying Syrian chemical weapons stockpile - The Globe and Mail

International inspectors began destroying Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said Sunday, racing under a tight deadline aiming to eliminate President Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons program within nine months.

▽BBC News - Cadbury loses legal fight over use of colour purple

Nestle has won a court battle with confectionery rival Cadbury, over Cadbury's attempt to trademark the purple colour of its Dairy Milk bars. Last year Cadbury won a legal case to stop other chocolate firms using the colour - known as Pantone 2865c.