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(Reuters) – Movie lovers, Bollywood stars and well-wishers paid their last respects to film-maker Yash Chopra today, a day after he died of multiple organ failure.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — US Ambassador to Jamaica Pamela Bridgewater is advocating the use of plea bargaining to assist with clearing up the backlog of cases in the judicial system.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Three militants planned to detonate explosives in rucksacks and ram a car fixed with blades into a crowd of people in Britain in a major assault that could have been more devastating than the 2005 attacks in London, a court heard today.

(de Ware Tijd) WAGENINGEN — Paradise Oil Company (POC), a Staatsolie affiliate, hopes a profitable strike in the District of Coronie is imminent.

(de Ware Tijd) THE HAGUE — Suriname has raked in over 1 million Euros so far with the sale of tourist passes in the Netherlands.

(Barbados Nation) Locked in a row over United States rum subsidies to international producers, Barbados and its Caribbean neighbours are worried about Washington’s seeming indifference to the region’s plight.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Lance Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life after the International Cycling Union (UCI) said today it had ratified the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s (USADA) sanctions.

(Trinidad Express) “THE single transaction that caused the CL Financial empire to fall.”

(Trinidad Express) A forensic management audit commissioned by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has found that this country did not get value for money in the £5 million sale of its prime slots at Heathrow Airport in London, England, by former British West Indies Airways (BWIA) to British Airways in 2007.

(BBC) One of India’s most influential film-makers, Yash Chopra, has died from dengue fever in Mumbai, aged 80.

(Jamaica Gleaner) All new recruits to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will soon be required to undergo polygraph testing, better known as a lie detector test.

MILWAUKEE, (Reuters) – The lone suspect in a mass shooting at a spa in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been found from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene, Brookfield police said.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are tied at 47 percent support each among likely voters with just over two weeks to go before the U.S.

At about 0200h today, police say that taxi driver Edward Freeman, 24 years, had just arrived in his motor vehicle at his home at Sideline Dam, East La Penitence, Georgetown, when he was attacked by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.

Owner of De Sinco, Frank De Abreu is unconscious in the Georgetown Public Hospital following an accident this morning at the corner of Lamaha and Irving streets.

BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Violence erupted in downtown Beirut today as protesters tried to storm the offices of Prime Minister Najib Mikati after the funeral of an assassinated intelligence chief whose death they blame on Syria.

Two men died early this morning after they were fatally stabbed in separate incidents in Georgetown.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The plans to modernize the Martin Luther King Highway are at an advanced stage.

(Jamaica Observer) Dancehall artiste Sean Paul will be doing a series of shows in India next month.

(Jamaica Observer) The Cayman Islands is apparently lapping up former members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), who ostensibly go there in search of better wages and conditions of work.