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(Barbados Nation) A young beauty queen has been stripped of her title as police investigate the circulation of nude photographs of the queen via BlackBerry cellphones.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday charged a “crisis of confidence” in Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and demanded that he be removed from office.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian Premier League (IPL) side Deccan Chargers have been shut down for failing to comply with a deadline to pay overdue player fees, organisers of the Twenty20 league said on today.

(Trinidad Express) President George Maxwell Richards yesterday signed the Proclamation Order repealing Section 34.

(Trinidad Express) Attorneys representing businessmen Ishwar Galbaransingh, Steve Ferguson and six other men, charged with fraud-related offences arising out of the Piarco Development Project, have signalled their intention to argue that the proceedings should be stayed on the ground that it would be an abuse of process to continue.

PARIS/LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s royal family began legal action against a French magazine today for a “grotesque” breach of privacy after it published topless photographs of Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Americans need to get used to Jamaica’s men dominating the global sprinting scene because it will not change soon, Jamaican double Olympic silver medallist Yohan Blake said on Friday.

COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Seven Asian players including India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Sri Lanka’s wicketkeeper-batsman Kumar Sangakkara were selected in the International Cricket Council’s one-day team of the year on Friday.

(WICB) Colombo, Sri Lanka – Marlon Samuels believes he will have a key role to play in the West Indies team in the upcoming ICC World T20 tournament.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has ordered a security review for U.S.

KHARTOUM/TUNIS, (Reuters) – Fury about a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad tore across the Middle East today with protesters attacking U.S.

Canada on Tuesday said that effective that day citizens of St.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – Members of a Syrian opposition group will visit China next week, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday, weeks after an envoy of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s visited, as Beijing steps up diplomacy to help resolve the crisis gripping the country.

(Trinidad Express) Plans by National Security Minister Jack Warner to acquire shares in two local newspapers were “unfortunate” and undemocratic, says executive director of the Centre for Law and Democracy Toby Mendel.

(Trinidad Express) After close to ten hours of debate, the House of Representatives passed the amendment to the Administration of Justice (Indictable Proceedings) Act close to midnight on Wednesday which will see the removal of the controversial Section 34.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar can take her sister Vidwatie Newton on any overseas trip she wishes at State expense as the Integrity Commission has found there was no breach of the Public Life Act when the PM did so in the past.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Afghan-American allegedly caught with more than euro 300,000 at the Norman Manley International airport is to return to court on September 27.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The West Indies lost their warm-up match to Sri Lanka by nine wickets today ahead of the World Twenty20 competition.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has responded to the disparaging comments by Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe against Jamaican men calling them unfortunate, misguided and disrespectful.

(Barbados Nation) Eight young men, charged with the theft of copper and cable from businesses in St Thomas and St Michael, were remanded when they appeared in the Bridgetown Traffic Court yesterday.