A jury in the US state of Florida has charged a woman with the first-degree murder of a man who won $17m (£11.2m) in a lottery in 2006.The body of Abraham Shakespeare was found buried under a concrete slab in a backyard in Tampa, Florida last year.Investigators say Dorice Dee Dee Moore helped herself to millions of Mr Shakespeare's money before killing him.Mr Shakespeare, who was barely l
HELSINKI – Nokia Corp.on Friday revised its global market share estimate for mobile phones in 2009 to 34 percent, from an earlier 38 percent, and said it expected no growth this year.The revision was due to more accurate measuring methods, including of counterfeit products, the world's largest mobile phone maker said.Nokia said that although its market share was not expected to grow, the va
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake — and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.Two months since the Jan.12 quake, the government has yet to relocate a single person, despite a pledge that
JOHANNESBURG – Fatima Meer, a friend and biographer of Nelson Mandela has died.She was 81.The South African Press Association quoted a local politician and family friend, Logie Naidoo, as saying Meer died in a Durban hospital Friday.The cause of death was not given.In a statement, Achmat Dangor, chief executive of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said Meer had been a close friend of Mr.Mande
LONDON Cowen is set to meet with President Obama on Wednesday for bilateral talks before a St.Patrick's Day celebration that last year had the waters in the White House fountain running green.In recent months, however, Cowen has been laboring to put debt-saddled Ireland back into the black.He has been slashing public-sector salaries -- including his own -- and making cuts in social services to a
A human rights organisation in Egypt has accused the interior ministry of manipulating the legal system to target a blogger who exposed police brutality.The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information said Wael Abbas had been sentenced to six months in jail in a case that had already been closed.A Cairo appeals court cleared him last month of damaging an internet cable.But he was then convicted o
LONDON – The French and British leaders accused the U.S of protectionism on Friday over a contract to build a new Air Force refueling tanker.A European-led consortium pulled out of bidding this week for the $35 billion contract, saying the Pentagon was favoring rival American bidder Boeing. This is not the right way for the United States to treat its European allies, French President Nico
SAO PAULO – A Brazilian judge has ordered Air France to pay the equivalent of more than $1 million in damages to the family of one of the victims of last year's crash that killed more than 200 people, officials said Friday.Judge Mauro Nicolau Junior ordered Air France to pay 2 million reals in damages to the family of Marcelle Valpacos Fonseca, a Brazilian state prosecutor who was among th
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