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YOKOHAMA, Japan,  (Reuters) – Paolo Guerrero snatched a 69th-minute winner as South American champions Corinthians stunned Chelsea to win soccer’s Club World Cup today.

NEWTOWN, Conn.,  (Reuters) – The 20 children killed at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua,  CMC – Trinidad and Tobago edged Martinique on penalties in a dramatic semi-final to book their spot in Sunday’s final of the CFU Caribbean Cup.

SYDNEY, Australia,  CMC – West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels both failed, but Samuels’s Melbourne Renegades snatched a five-wicket in a low-scoring encounter in the Australia Big Bash here Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The trial of President Desi Bouterse and others implicated in the deaths of 15 prominent people who were opposed to the then military government in Suriname in 1982, has been postponed.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who canceled a planned overseas trip last weekend because of illness, is recovering at home after fainting due to dehydration and sustaining a concussion, a U.S.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The funds the government needs to finish the road Meerzorg-Albina have been made available by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

(Trinidad Guardian) The co-pilot of CAL’s flight BW 523, which crash-landed in Guyana last year, has resigned and the captain of the flight is currently employed at another CAL division, the airline has said.

The Dutch Caribbean island of Saba has become increasingly popular with gay couples after legislators legalised same-sex marriages in a region still openly hostile to gays and lesbians, the Associated Press says.

(Reuters) – In the aftermath of Friday’s elementary school shooting, a shattered New England town searched for clues to why a young man would commit so heinous an act.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Nelson Mandela, the 94-year-old former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate hospitalised with a lung infection, has successfully undergone a procedure to have gall stones removed, the government said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) National selection panel chairman, Courtnay Daley, says Jamaica will miss the services of Chris Gayle and Marlon Samuels at next month’s Caribbean Twenty20 (T20) tournament, but it presents an opportunity for other players to step up and show their worth.

Canada is to construct a new Chancery at its Kingston location.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Beleaguered Premier of the Cayman Islands, William McKeeva Bush, says his attempt to improve the immigration status of Jamaicans caused a “bang up” between himself and the governor – Duncan Taylor – of the British territory.

(BBC) England took four wickets in the last hour of the third day to fight back against India in the final Test.

(Barbados Nation) Bleak economic prospects in the region may put the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) at risk for further downgrades in its credit rating, says president Dr Warren Smith.

(Trinidad Express) Former chief magistrate Sherman McNicolls, who gave a police statement five years ago that led to a criminal charge being laid against Chief Justice Sat Sharma died on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) Three men allowed to plead guilty to murder for the first time in local legal history will spend the rest of their lives in prison.

LEICESTER, England,  CMC – Out-of-favour West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has been appointed Leicestershire’s four-day captain for the upcoming English county season.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez is recovering “satisfactorily” from his cancer surgery in Cuba although the process remains slow, Information Minister Ernesto Villegas said today.