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India 'sinks Somali pirate ship' An Indian navy warship has destroyed a Somali pirate "mother ship" that fired on it in the Gulf of Aden, officials say. Plea to halt DR Congo atrocities Community groups in DR Congo make an impassioned plea for European troops to be sent to halt atrocities there. Windpipe transplant breakthrough Surgeons in Spain claim a major breakthrough by giving a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells. UK prostitute users face clampdown Paying for sex with prostitutes who are controlled by pimps or illegally trafficked to the UK is to be outlawed. Nepali police 'torture children' The international pressure group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), accuses police in Nepal of torturing children.