World

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – Herb Reed, the last of the founding members of 1950s R&B crooners The Platters, known for hits such as “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” and “The Great Pretender,” has died in Boston age 83.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. lawyer who worked for some of the country’s most prestigious firms was sentenced on Monday to a record 12 years jail for an insider trading scheme which lasted 17 years and netted more than $37 million between 1994 and 2011.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States has cancelled funding for Pakistan’s version of the children’s television series “Sesame Street,” saying yesterday it had received credible allegations of fraud and corruption in the production of the popular Muppet program.

ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo admitted yesterday fathering a second child when he was a Roman Catholic bishop, in an apparent effort to limit damage from the latest paternity scandal to emerge during his four-year-old presidency.

MILWAUKEE,  (Reuters) – Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker will become the first governor in U.S.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – The U.S. subsidiary of Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht has filed a lawsuit challenging a recently signed Florida law barring local governments from hiring companies that do business in Cuba or Syria.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Clashes broke out between rival Libyan militias at Tripoli’s international airport yesterday after gunmen drove armed pickup trucks onto the tarmac and surrounded planes, forcing the airport to cancel flights.

JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudanese officials have “stolen” an estimated $4 billion of public money and should return it to salvage the young nation’s reputation and help lift its people out of poverty, the president said in a letter seen yesterday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – When Russia opens a “billion-dollar bridge” on its Pacific coast this summer, Vladimir Putin can expect an enthusiastic audience among the 5,000 islanders whom it will connect to the mainland, at an eye-popping cost per head.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A Canadian man suspected of murdering and dismembering a Chinese student, then posting a video of the grisly crime online, was arrested in an Internet cafe in Berlin yesterday after an international manhunt.

LONDON (Reuters) – Four days of nationwide celebrations during which millions of people have turned out to mark Queen Elizabeth’s 60 years on the throne conclude today with a church service and carriage procession through central London.

LAGOS, (Reuters) – A passenger plane crashed into a densely populated part of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, yesterday, killing all 147 people on board, the airline said.

MILWAUKEE, (Reuters) – Political activists converged on Wisconsin yesterday to join get-out-the-vote efforts two days before a historic recall election for Republican Governor Scott Walker that is seen as a test for November’s presidential race.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth joined an armada of 1,000 vessels and more than a million cheering spectators yesterday to celebrate her 60th year on the throne with the most dazzling display of pageantry seen on London’s River Thames for 350 years.

DUBAI, (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden led a frugal life, spending all his personal wealth on attacks against the West and serving his guests good food, al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri said in a video posted online yesterday.

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Toronto police said yesterday they think they know the identity of the shooter who killed one person and wounded six others on Saturday in a rare outburst of major violence at the city’s main downtown mall.

DENVER (Reuters) – Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama hasn’t exactly been a friend to marijuana users.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Hosni Mubarak, toppled by an uprising last year after 30 years ruling Egypt, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for his role in killing protesters after a trial that sets a precedent for holding Middle East autocrats to account.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) – Clashes erupted between heavily-armed supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Lebanon’s port of Tripoli yesterday, killing nine people and prompting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati to rush there to try to stop the violence.

ACCRA (Reuters) – A cargo jet slammed into a minibus at Ghana’s Accra airport yesterday after overshooting the runway on landing, killing at least 10 people, according to a Reuters witness and an aviation official.