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(Jamaica Gleaner) With evidence indicating that Jamaica lottery scammers are continuing to run rampant in at least three American states, two United States (US) legislators are considering bringing the multibillion-dollar industry to the attention of Congress.

(BBC) India took an unassailable 3-1 lead today in the one-day series against England following a five-wicket win in Mohali.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Roger Federer fended off a withering challenge from Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to prevail 7-6 4-6 7-6 3-6 6-3 in Rod Laver Arena and reach the Australian Open semi-finals today.

HOBART, (Reuters) – Phil Hughes returned to form with a century before Xavier Doherty and Moises Henriques took three wickets each to lead Australia to a series-levelling 32-run win over Sri Lanka in the final one-day cricket international today.

(Trinidad Express) Government was yesterday accused of using National Security helicopters for campaigning in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Serena Williams went down fighting like the five-times champion she is but bowed out of the Australian Open quarter-finals today, hampered by a back injury and stunned in three sets by fellow American Sloane Stephens.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron promised today to give Britons a straight referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave, provided he wins an election in 2015.

(Trinidad Express) A MORVANT couple were shot dead as they slept in their bed early yesterday morning but by 1 p.m.

(WICB) Gros Islet, St Lucia – Two legends of West Indies cricket have hailed Windward Islands captain Darren Sammy for the gesture of withdrawing an appeal at the end of last Friday night’s Caribbean T20 match against Guyana.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Three people were wounded, one critically, today when gunfire erupted during an altercation between two people on a community college campus near Houston, police said, the latest in a series of shootings on U.S.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council today unanimously condemned North Korea’s December rocket launch and expanded existing U.N.

GROS-ISLET, St. Lucia,  CMC-President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dr.

U.S. Ambassador to Guyana D. Brent Hardt welcomed guests on Monday from Guyana’s government, private sector, civil society, and diplomatic community to share in the historic, second Inauguration of President Barack Obama.

A  Guyanese man is one of three persons scheduled to go on trial in the Dutch Caribbean island of St Maarten for the murder of a couple from South Carolina, US.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s bespectacled and shaven-headed information minister stands solemnly at the microphone to impart the latest news on President Hugo Chavez’s cancer.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – A cloud of harmless gas smelling of sweat and rotten eggs leaked from a chemicals factory in northwest France and drifted across the English Channel as far as London today.

NIAMEY/BAMAKO,  (Reuters) – Chadian forces advanced towards the Mali border today as an African troop deployment and a U.S.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-The Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Association (TTCA) is seeking the assistance of the government to retain the services of its Indian Premier League (IPL) players for the 2013 Champions league T20.

GT&T customers in the Catherine, East Coast area were last evening left without internet service following a vehicular accident at Airy Hall, Mahaicony which damaged a GT&T pole and burnt the attached telephone cable.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland,  CMC- Former president of the Dominica Football Association (DFA) Patrick John has dropped his appeal against a two-year FIFA ban in the bribery case involving Mohamed Bin Hammam.