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(Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today federal agencies are looking for apartments and hotel rooms for people displaced by superstorm Sandy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Investigators from the St Catherine Major Investigation Task Force are probing the murder of two women in the parish.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister of Belize Dean Barrow is scheduled to meet with financial advisors in the United States this week to discuss the restructuring of the country’s multi-million dollar foreign debt.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A New York nanny suspected of slaying two young children of a Manhattan couple last month in their luxury apartment was arrested on Saturday and charged with murder in their stabbing deaths, New York’s deputy police commissioner said.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Text messages sent by the former head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers to Prime Minister David Cameron, published today, have further revealed their close personal relationship.

KARACHI,  (Reuters) – Pakistan test and one-day captain Misbah-ul-Haq has backed an International Cricket Council (ICC) move to introduce day-night tests but suggested initial trials with the coloured ball in first class cricket.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,  (Reuters) – Puerto Ricans, long divided over the U.S.

KANDY, Sri Lanka,  (Reuters) – Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by 14 runs under the Duckworth-Lewis method today to finally achieve a positive result on a rain-scarred tour.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A housing crisis loomed in New York City as victims of superstorm Sandy struggled today against near-freezing temperatures and officials fretted that displaced voters would not be able to cast ballots in Tuesday’s presidential election.

At about 0830h today, acting on information received, police ranks went to First Dam, Garden of Eden, EBD, where they found a .38 Taurus Special Revolver along with 1,407 rounds of ammunition of various calibre, two bullet proof vests, two pairs black leather boots, three face masks, and a quantity of clothing in two black suitcases and a travelling bag on the dam.

The police say they are investigating the murder of labourer Herman La Cruz, 49 years, of Port Kaituma, NWD, which occurred at about 1900h on November 01, 2012, at Aranka Backdam.

ABU DHABI,  (Reuters) – Finland’s Kimi Raikkonen won an accident-strewn and thrilling Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix for Lotus today.

(Jamaica Observer) Last week’s beating by security guards of a student accused of engaging in homosexual acts in a University of Technology (UTech) bathroom, captured on video and widely circulated, brought into sharp focus a 2012 study that suggested that Jamaicans are becoming increasingly more tolerant of homosexuals.

(Barbados Nation) CLICO policyholders will lose out on more than half of their investment under the plan recently proposed by judicial manager Deloitte Consulting Limited.

(Trinidad Express) The question has been repeatedly put to the Government that early proclamation of Section 34 was part of a conspiracy to allow certain men to walk free and it has been repeatedly denied by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan and the rest of the People’s Partnership Government.

(Trinidad Express) “Don’t shoot the messenger.” That’s the defence which Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) secretary general Sat Maharaj offered up for National Security Minister Jack Warner yesterday.

(Trinidad Express)  Political leader of the Congress of the People (COP) and Minister of Legal Affairs Prakash Ramadhar is distancing his party from racial comments made by National Security Minister Jack Warner on Friday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Women helped propel Barack Obama to the White House in 2008, but their flagging enthusiasm for him reflected in recent polls has created uncertainty about who will capture the female vote in Tuesday’s election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The international medical group, Doctors Without Borders says there has been a slight increase in Cholera cases in Haiti following the passage of Hurricane Sandy last week.

(Reuters) – The New York City subway system is now operating along 80 percent of its network, and more of the network will come back on line through the weekend, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said today.