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(Reuters) – Former FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam has won his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a life ban from all soccer-related activity over bribery allegations.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, convicted of leading a $7 billion Ponzi scheme, is serving his 110-year sentence in a high-security federal prison in central Florida, according to the U.S

Picketers gathered outside of Police Headquarters, Eve Leary this morning to protest the police killing of three protesters in Linden last evening and the injuring of around a dozen others.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — Deputy Mayor of Montego Bay Michael Troupe and his People’s National Party (PNP) colleague Sylvan Reid were among five people taken into custody yesterday during pre-dawn raids carried out by members of the Lottery Scam Task Force.

(Jamaica Observer) Government is yet to be officially informed about the decision to remove the Air Jamaica logo from Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) planes, days after reports that the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in Trinidad had instructed the airline to drop the Air Jamaica brand.

(Reuters) – Thousands of mourners, including Bollywood stars, gathered today for the funeral of actor Rajesh Khanna, braving heavy rains and traffic jams in Mumbai.

(Barbados Nation) Government has been told that it must urgently put  its economic house in order, following the latest downgrade of Barbados’ sovereign credit rating by Standard & Poor’s (S&P).

(Trinidad Express) A Moruga man was yesterday sentenced to 26 years in prison with hard labour for the rape of an epileptic woman.

The Alliance For Change last night condemned the use of deadly force by the police in the Linden power protest which led to three people dying.

The Guyana Government tonight expressed regret at the loss of life in protests at Linden today over the increase in power tariffs and said that a full probe of events will be convened as soon as “sufficient calm” returns to the mining community.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Belize is studying a plan to decriminalize possession of small quantities of marijuana, joining other Latin American nations that are trying to find novel ways to battle drug trafficking.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,  CMC-Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago demolished new opponents to continue their domination of the Americas Federation of Netball Associations (AFNA) Championship in Port of Spain Tuesday night.

Protests over an increase in Linden power tariffs took a tragic turn tonight with three people dying and a fire raging in the Linden Secretariat compound.

St. John’s, Antigua – West Indies have today named the following provisional 30-member squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 to be staged in Sri Lanka in September.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Rajesh Khanna, one of the Indian film industry’s first home-grown screen idols, died  this morning, his family said.

(Reuters) – Kevin Pietersen was left out of England’s provisional, 30-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup announced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s revenue has declined by TT$10 billion over the last four years because of the global economic recession, says Finance Minister Larry Howai.

(Jamaica Observer) The lotto scam task force is now conducting operations at the premises of two PNP councillors in St James, including the deputy mayor of Montego Bay Michael Troupe.

(Jamaica Observer) The Clarke family has expressed satisfaction with yesterday’s ruling by the director of public prosecutions (DPP) that murder charges be brought against three soldiers for the 2010 shooting of their loved one, Keith Clarke, during the hunt for former Tivoli Gardens don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

Lindeners turned out in large numbers this morning for the first of a five-day ‘shutdown’ of the town as the protest over the imposition of a hike in electricity rates gathered steam.