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Jurors in the Allen Stanford fraud trial in the United States on Tuesday saw an undated video clip of a lavish “Stanford World in Antigua”.

CARACAS, (AP): The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers...

A former employee testified at the fraud trial of financier R. Allen Stanford that among those employed as financial analysts was a preacher and a farm hand.

The two men convicted for the death of Stephen Lawrence are to file an appeal against their conviction and sentence.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans to introduce a tax on financial transactions.

Doctors in the United States have reported that an American man was clinging to life after he was shot during a botched robbery outside a bank in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.Doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital said that Dave Bompart, 50, of...

SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC):The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Alicia Bárcena, says the investment ratio in the region is not enough to maintain high growth rates.

The United States is to cut almost 100,000 troops in light of budget cuts.

PHNOM PENH (AP):About 300 Cambodians working at the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal will not be paid this month and some have worked without pay since October, because funds from donor countries have dried up, a tribunal spokesman disclosed...

The bodies of three people have been recovered in Brazil by rescue workers searching through rubble, after the collapse of two high-rise office buildings in Rio de Janeiro.

CONNECTICUT (AP):Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on charges that they assaulted illegal immigrants and covered up abuses in a New Haven suburb...

CALIFORNIA (AP):A Marine sergeant who told his troops to "shoot first, ask questions later" in a raid that killed unarmed Iraqi women, children and elderly pleaded guilty Monday in a deal that will carry no more than three months confinement and end the...