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KANO, Nigeria,  (Reuters) – Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead nine health workers who were administering polio vaccinations in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s main northern city of Kano today, police said.

SYDNEY,  (Reuters) – Opener Shane Watson top-scored with 76 as Australia continued to dominate West Indies during a convincing five-wicket victory in the fourth one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground today.

(Trinidad Guardian) A huge, rarely-seen 100-mile long internal wave has been spotted near the north coast of Trinidad. A

(Trinidad Express) A 28-year-old Central woman will create history in Trinidad and Tobago and the region when she delivers the Caribbean’s first sextuplets.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – An appeals court judge ordered former Haitian President Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier to appear in court later this month on human rights allegations following a raucous hearing on the issue yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines has cancelled a number of flights today and tomorrow because of a snowstorm that was making its way up the Atlantic coast yesterday and which was expected to hit New York and other cities in the northeast United States.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Police swarmed a California ski area today in their search for a fired Los Angeles policeman accused of killing three people and declaring an all-out war on law enforcement officers and their families in a rambling Internet manifesto.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Summarised results from day/night matches in the opening round of the Regional Super50 today: Scores: At Kensington Oval: Jamaica beat Barbados by 75 runs.

The third man who was fatally shot during an armed confrontation with the police yesterday February 06, 2013, in Prashad Nagar, Georgetown, has been identified as Quincy Alexander called ‘Mac’, 32 years, of Meadowbrook Gardens, Georgetown, police said today.

CANBERRA, Australia, CMC-A scan has revealed no major damage to West Indies opening batsman Chris Gayle who sustained a thigh injury during the third One Day international against Australia Wednesday.

The GDF today announced that 95 officers have been promoted. The release from the army follows: Ninety-five Officers of the Guyana Defence Force have been promoted.

Former Auditor General of Guyana Anand Goolsarran has written to the Alliance For Change (AFC) asking that it consider replacing him as the party’s nominee to the yet-to-be established Public Procurement Commission citing reasons such as Government ridicule and vicious attacks since his name was put up as a nominee some months ago.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt and other overseas athletes will be able to compete tax-free in this year’s London Diamond League event at the Olympic Stadium after the British finance minister agreed to a “one-off” exemption.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – International Criminal Court judges ordered Libya today to hand over Muammar Gaddafi’s former spy chief and let him see his lawyer, raising the stakes in a dispute over who has the right to try the deposed strongman’s top lieutenants.

TUNIS,  (Reuters) – Tunisia’s governing Islamists rejected today a plan by the prime minister to replace the government after unrest erupted over the killing of an opposition leader, deepening the worst crisis since the country’s 2011 revolution.

(Jamaica Observer) Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart yesterday urged Jamaicans to stop sitting around waiting for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal and to get on with the job of moving Jamaica forward through export earning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica has been given the green light to train aviation professionals for the global markets, which will need 350,000 pilots and 480,000 mechanics by 2026.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three of the country’s leading private-sector groups have given Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell and the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) 30 days to lay out a clear road map to secure massive reductions in electricity rates.

CANBERRA,  (Reuters) – The use of performance enhancing drugs is “widespread” among professional and amateur athletes in Australia, a government report which rocked the sports-mad country said today.

(Trinidad Express) investigation into the death of Lance Corporal Curtis Marshall is still being actively pursued, with homicide detectives detaining several members of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment for questioning.