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Just after 9 last night a man threw acid in the face of Assistant Treasurer of the Guyana Cricket Board, Preetipaul Jaigobin who was in a Strathspey, East Coast Demerara restaurant at the time.

PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago’s  Prime Minister-elect Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised  today to rebuild a nation fractured by allegations of fiscal  mismanagement and corruption under the defeated People’s  National Movement.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Thirty-one people, 28 of them  civilians, have been killed in three days of violence in  Jamaica triggered by government moves to extradite an alleged  drug lord to the United States, police said today.

NORTH SOUND, Antigua (Reuters) – South Africa  overcame a sizzling late innings blitz by Darren Sammy to take a  2-0 lead in the one-day international series against the West  Indies today.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Soldiers and police stormed a  Kingston slum today and traded gunfire with supporters of  an alleged Jamaican drug lord who faces extradition to the  United States.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica declared a state of  emergency in two parishes of its capital Kingston today  after shooting and firebomb attacks on police stations by  suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces  extradition to the United States.

MANGALORE, India, (Reuters) – An Air India Express  airliner crashed outside an airport in southern India today, killing 158 people when it burst into flames after  overshooting a table-top runway and plunging into forest below.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Air India Express  passenger plane from Dubai crashed outside an airport in  southern India today, killing at least 160 people when it  burst into flames after overshooting the runway and ploughing  into a forest.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A Venezuelan natural gas  exploration rig sank in the Caribbean sea early today,  less than a month after a deadly explosion in the Gulf of  Mexico sank a BP-owned oil rig and created a natural disaster.

TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – A Libyan Airbus crashed as it  tried to land at Tripoli airport early today, killing 103  passengers and crew aboard, but a Dutch boy survived, officials  said.

Following investigations and advice from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions, grasstrack racer Dwarka Gangadeen was this afternoon charged with the murder of his wife Bridgette and he is expected to appear in court tomorrow.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Gordon Brown resigned as prime  minister of Britain today and said Conservative leader  David Cameron would take over, ending 13 years of rule by the  centre-left Labour Party.

Fire just after 7 am today ravaged the historic St Joseph Mercy Hospital.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Conservatives  offered coalition talks to the Liberal Democrats today after  a dramatic parliamentary election produced no outright majority,  the first time this has happened in Britain since 1974.

LONDON, (Reuters) – An exit poll published after voting ended in the British election today suggested the opposition Conservatives would emerge as the largest party, but fall short of an outright majority in parliament.

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Any links between Pakistan’s  Taliban and a failed bombing in New York’s Times Square could  put the country under renewed U.S.

New York bomb suspect charged, arrests in Pakistan NEW YORK/ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – U.S.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Backyard barbecue gas tanks,  firecrackers and alarm clocks were among the ingredients used  to make a car bomb that authorities say would have killed many  people if it had exploded in New York’s busy Times Square.    

SMOLENSK, Russia, (Reuters) – Poland’s President  Lech Kaczynski, its central bank head and the country’s military  chief were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in  thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport today.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister  Vladimir Putin gave the United States’ main Latin American foe,  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a needed boost with a brief  visit yesterday to discuss oil, defense and nuclear energy  cooperation.