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(BBC) India’s Cheteshwar Pujara again defied England with an elegant century on day one of the second Test in Mumbai.

ADELAIDE,  (Reuters) – Graeme Smith struck a defiant century in response to Australia’s massive first innings total, but the hosts grabbed a pair of wickets after tea to restrict South Africa to 217 for two at the close of the second day of the second test.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday she would not give into the demands of hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh.

After almost five hours of fierce arguments between the government and opposition, Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman this evening ruled that a motion brought by Opposition Leader David Granger to gag Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee would be sent to the Privileges Committee for consideration and in the interim the minister would not be allowed to bring any motion to the House.

The Associated Press says that a helicopter crashed today in an upscale Bahamas resort, killing one US citizen and injuring at least three others.

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was a marathon session this morning when the judges of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) sat for a preliminary case management hearing in the Shanique Myrie case.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – R&B star Rihanna scored her 12th chart-topping single on the Billboard Hot 100 on Wednesday, as her seventh studio album “Unapologetic” raced toward a big debut after its release this week.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,  (Reuters) – Former three-time world boxing champion Hector “Macho” Camacho is brain dead following a drive-by shooting in Puerto Rico, a doctor said on Thursday.

Salim Bacchus called ‘Black Salim’ of 139 Line Path ‘D’, Corriverton, Corentyne, Berbice, appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the  New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court today after being charged with the murder of Police Constable 20682 Jirbahan Dianand on September 14, 2012, police said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Port-of-Spain mayor Louis Lee Sing is insisting there is no coconut vendors’ association, despite several releases being sent to the media signed by “Baldeo Babwah, president of the Coconut Vendors Association.”

KHULNA, Bangladesh,  (Reuters) – Marlon Samuels struck his fifth test century to move the West Indies towards Bangladesh’s first innings total at the close of the second day’s play in the second test today.

(Jamaica Observer) The People’s National Party’s (PNP’s) pre-election promise to review Jamaica’s buggery law has taken a back seat to the passage of more pressing legislation in the Houses of Parliament.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Approximately J$60 million has been spent by the Portia Simpson Miller administration to provide some of its ministers with new high-end vehicles since taking office almost a year ago.

(Barbados Nation) Leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, will be arriving in Barbados on Sunday for a week’s visit as part of the second phase of a Caribbean tour.

ADELAIDE,  (Reuters) – Michael Clarke blasted his second double-century in consecutive innings to drive Australia to a mammoth first-day total of 482-5 in the second test today as South Africa’s ailing pace attack was brought to its knees.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Taliban movement threatened today to attack Indian targets to avenge the country’s execution of Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of the militant squad responsible for a rampage through Mumbai that killed 166 people in 2008.

(Trinidad Express) Former chief justice and former chairman of the Caribbean Court of Justice Michael de la Bastide yesterday criticised the British Privy Council, saying it decided the case involving the amnesty given to the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen on the “wrong premise” and it focussed on the “wrong man”—the President.

CAIRO/GAZA,  (Reuters) – Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip agreed today to an Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire to halt an eight-day conflict that killed 162 Palestinians and five Israelis.

Friends and family remembered actor Sherman Hemsley today at his funeral service in West Texas by showing video clips of his best known role as George Jefferson on the TV sitcom “The Jeffersons.”

(Barbados Nation) Millions of people around the world have already seen a sneak preview of a new Barbados tourism campaign featuring Rihanna.