Hugo Chavez coffin arrives at Caracas museum
The body of Hugo Chavez has been laid to rest at a military museum in Venezuela's capital, Caracas.
Thousands of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the hearse as it carried his coffin from the military academy where it laid in state for 10 days.
Many of his supporters were wearing red, the colour of Mr Chavez's political movement.
Mr Chavez, who led Venezuela for 14 years, died of cancer last week.
His coffin was received by a military guard of honour.
Religious and political ceremonies were held at the military museum, attended by Mr Chavez's chosen successor Nicolas Maduro.Mr Maduro asked the National Assembly to reform the constitution to allow Mr Chavez's body to be buried in the National Pantheon, together with the most important leaders in Venezuela's history.
Mr Chavez, for his part, had said he wanted to be buried in his hometown in Barinas.
After Friday's ceremonies, the country's Information Minister, Ernesto Villegas, said the government had dropped plans to embalm Mr Chavez for permanent display.
He said the decision was made at the advice of Russian experts who said Mr Chavez's body had not been properly prepared. The embalming process would take seven to eight months.
Earlier in the day, political and military authorities joined Mr Chavez's relatives for a ceremony at the military academy where his remains lay in state for 10 days.
"Thanks, comandante, for giving us back our fatherland," said one of Mr Chavez's daughters, Maria Gabriela, in an emotional eulogy.
"You have left us unexpectedly and have left an enormous vacuum in Venezuela," said one of Mr Chavez's former teachers at the military academy, Major General Jacinto Perez Arcay.
Tens of thousands of Venezuelans have visited the coffin of their former leader.
Shortly after his death was announced on 5 March, the government declared seven days of mourning, which was later extended to 10 days.
Tourists shot in Bridgetown
Police reported the shooting of two British tourists in the City around 2 p.m. The names have not been released but police reports state a man, in his 70’s, was shot in his left side while a woman, in her 50’s, received a gunshot injury to her right thigh. The shooting occurred in Hincks Street.
The pair was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where they were being treated.
Cyprus parliament to hold bailout crisis session
Cyprus' parliament is due to hold an emergency session to discuss a big bailout, which has angered the public.
It is by no means certain that the deal, reluctantly endorsed by the president, will get enough support to pass in parliament.
The 10bn-euro ($13bn; £8.6bn) bailout agreed by the EU and IMF demands that all bank customers pay a one-off levy.
This led to mass cash withdrawals, and President Nicos Anastasiades later said he wanted to ease the bailout terms.
The Cypriot president's Democratic Rally party - which has 20 seats in the 56-member assembly - needs support from other factions to ratify the bailout.
A spokesman for one of its coalition partners, the Democratic Party, told BBC News they wanted assurances that the deal would resolve the problems facing Cyprus before voting in favour.
Opposition leader George Lillikas, an independent, said the president had "betrayed the people's vote".
If the deal is defeated, state media say banks could be closed on Tuesday so as to avoid mass withdrawals.
Ahead of the parliamentary vote, President Anastasiades said he was trying to amend the levy demand.
"I fully share the unhappiness caused by a difficult and painful decision," he said on TV on Sunday.
"That's why I continue to fight with the eurogroup to amend their decisions in the coming hours to limit the impact on small depositors."
However, the president warned that Cyprus had had to choose between stabilising its finances or the eventual collapse of its financial system and exit from the eurozone.He also said it was the worst crisis since Turkey invaded in 1974.
'Good step'
Under the bailout's terms, people in Cyprus with less than 100,000 euros in their accounts would have to pay a one-time tax of 6.75%. Those with sums over that threshold would pay 9.9% in tax.
Depositors will be compensated with the equivalent amount in shares in their banks, and Mr Anastasiades promised that those who kept deposits in Cypriot banks for the next two years would be given bonds linked to revenues from natural gas.
Cyprus announced the discovery of a field containing between 5 and 8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas under the Mediterranean Sea in 2011 but Turkey disputes its drilling rights.
It is believed that eurozone leaders, particularly in Germany, insisted on the levy because of the large amount of Russian capital kept in Cypriot banks, amid fears of money-laundering.
The speaker of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, later argued in a newspaper interview that there should be an exemption from the levy for savers, for example, who had less than 25,000 euros in their accounts.
"The solution must be socially acceptable," Mr Schulz, who belongs to Germany's opposition Social Democrats, told Germany's Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the levy, saying: "I think it's a good step which will certainly make it easier for us to approve the help for Cyprus."
It is now clear that negotiators of the bailout in Brussels drastically underestimated the reaction in Cyprus, says the BBC's Mark Lowen.
A tiny eurozone economy feels it is being blackmailed by the most powerful, and the growing resentment will do nothing to foster European solidarity, our correspondent adds.
If the levy goes ahead, it will affect many non-Cypriots with bank accounts, including UK expatriates.
However, depositors in the overseas arms of Cypriot banks will not be hit. Bank of Cyprus UK and Laiki Bank UK both confirmed on their websites that there would be no impact.
Chancellor George Osborne said the UK would compensate any government employees and military personnel whose bank accounts were affected.
The levy itself will not take effect until Tuesday, following a public holiday, but action was taken to control electronic money transfers over the weekend.
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Canada prisoners in daring helicopter escape
Two inmates have made a daring escape from a prison in Canada by climbing up a rope into a hovering helicopter.
Officials at the St-Jerome prison, near Montreal, said the inmates fled at about 14:20 (18:20 GMT) on Sunday, triggering a massive manhunt.
Police later said they arrested one of the prisoners and two other men. They also surrounded the area whey they believe the second escapee is hiding.
The helicopter was also found, and the pilot is now being questioned.
The two inmates were identified as Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 36, and Danny Provencal, 33.
Both were reportedly injured during the escape from the prison, about 60km (40 miles) north-west of Montreal.
Before Hudon-Barbeau was re-arrested, he reportedly called local media outlets saying he was "ready to die".
Police said much of the action took place in the town of Chertsey.
They added that the area were the second suspect was thought to be hiding was now surrounded.
"We're hot on the trail of the one (inmate) that's missing," police spokesman Sgt Benoit Richard was quoted as saying by The Globe and Mail newspaper.
The helicopter - which was found some 85km away from the prison - was reportedly hijacked from a tour company.
The 480-prisoner St-Jerome facility was a scene of a small riot last month. Police had to use pepper spray to quell inmates.
Famed French Criminal Lawyer Metzner Found Dead
French lawyer Olivier Metzner, well-known for defending such high-profile clients as former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and ex-prime minister Dominique de Villepin, was found dead Sunday.
Police say his body was floating near his private island off Brittany. They say a suicide note was found in his home. An autopsy is being carried out to determine the exact cause of death. He was 63 years old.
Metzner began his legal career by successfully defending petty thieves, and soon became an expert on getting his clients freed on technicalities.
He successfully fought to absolve Continental Airlines of manslaughter charges in a deadly 2000 Concorde crash.
But he failed to win acquittal for former Panamanian dictator Noriega on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
Pope Francis Delights Pilgrims with Informal 1st Sunday Address
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Pope Francis walked among the people of Rome like a local priest and then spoke to tens of thousands from his window on the first Sunday since he was elected to lead the world's 1.2-billion Roman Catholics.
The pontiff offered a simple “good morning” to what he called his “brothers and sisters” packed into St. Peter's Square and the surrounding streets. He appeared on a small balcony high above the square, attached to his official apartment. Far below was a happy crowd, many people waving banners and flags, especially the blue, white and yellow flag of his home country, Argentina.
The pope preached a short homily about forgiveness to the cheers and adoring gazes of the faithful. He got a laugh when he said that thanks to the media, the square was “the size of the world.”
People on the square were thrilled to have the chance to see the new pope, who, four days into his papacy, has already established a reputation for having the common touch.
FEDERICA, from Italy: “It was an amazing day and an amazing man, I think. I think that he is a man that is real near to the people. So, I am really happy and I hope that he can change something in this world.”
DENEYS, from South Africa: “I was completely overwhelmed and completely charmed by what he had to say, as I think everybody was. It was just fantastic.”
Earlier, Pope Francis surprised his security guards by stepping outside the Vatican to greet people on a street corner, shaking hands and kissing babies. Then he went into a small church on the Vatican grounds to lead mass, greeting parishioners as they left, like a local priest would do.
The pope also sent out his first Twitter message, offering thanks and asking people to pray for him. He signed it simply, “Pope Francis.”
The former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has been riding a wave of enthusiasm since his fellow cardinals elected him in a surprise move Wednesday evening. But he has a lot of work to do, cleaning up a scandal in the Vatican bureaucracy involving finances and charges of sexual blackmail by power-hungry factions, and scandals over sexual abuse by priests in several parts of the world.
He has not said anything about those issues directly, but Sunday's homily about mercy and forgiveness may give a clue about his thinking. He said God's capacity for forgiveness is endless, and people should not stop asking for it.
The pope's next major event is his installation mass in front of another huge crowd Tuesday on St. Peter's Square, this time including world leaders.
He ended Sunday's audience with greetings and blessings, but unlike his recent predecessors he did not speak in any language other than Italian. He concluded with a simple farewell.
The pope said, “Have a good Sunday, and a good lunch.” Then he waved and disappeared back into the building.
Lima's first woman mayor Villaran 'survives recall vote'
The first woman mayor of Peru's capital Lima, Susana Villaran, has narrowly survived a vote to depose her from office, exit polls suggest.
They indicate that Ms Villaran was backed by about 52% of voters.
The campaign to recall her was backed by the conservative opposition who accused her of being inefficient - a claim denied by Ms Villaran.
In 2010 she also became the first left-wing politician to be elected as mayor of the capital.
About six million people were eligible to cast their ballots in Sunday's vote.
The electoral commission has promised to announce the official results on Monday.
After her victory three years ago, Ms Villaran, a human rights activist, promised to tackle corruption in Lima, which is home to a third of Peruvians.
Ms Villaran's supporters have accused the country's business elite and powerful conservative politicians of trying to oust her because of her progressive social policies.
Greek footballer banned for Nazi salute
A Greek footballer has been banned for life from playing for the national team after making a Nazi salute.
AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis, 20, made the gesture to celebrate his winning goal during a Saturday match.
The Greek football federation called it "a severe provocation" that insulted "all the victims of Nazi bestiality".
Katidis denied he gave a Nazi salute. "I am not a fascist and would not have done it if I had known what it meant," Katidis said on his Twitter account.
The player - a former captain of Greece's under-19 team - was fiercely criticised on social media for the salute after scoring the winner in AEK's 2-1 victory over Veria in the Olympic stadium on Saturday.
He insisted he was simply pointing at a team mate in the stands.
The club have asked him to explain himself at a board meeting next week.
But AEK's German coach Ewald Lienen has backed Katidis.
"He is a young kid who does not have any political ideas. He most likely saw such a salute on the internet or somewhere else and did it without knowing what it means," he said, according to Reuters news agency.
The Supervisor of Elections has announced that By-Election is set for March 22
The Supervisor of Elections Dudley Lewis has aannounced that based on the ruling of the Supreme Court in the matter between the Attorney General and Ms. Amanda Anisha Missick; and considering the withdrawal of the challenge against Amanda Missick brought by Oral Selver and the withdrawal of the challenge against Oral Selver brought by Althea Ewing Williams; there will be a By-Election in the Cheshire Hall and Richmond Hill 7th Electoral District 7 as planned on March 22, 2013.
Therefore, both Candidates Mr. Oral Isaac Selver representing the People's Democratic Party (PDM) and Ms. Amanda A. Misick, representing the Progressive National Party (PNP) are eligible for the by-election.
Mr. Lewis has also cautioned the public against the publishing of false information about the withdrawal of any candidate. Under section 75(1)(b) of the Elections Ordinance, it is an offense to publish false information against any candidate in an effort to win votes for another.
Section 75 (1)(b) states that every person who before, or during an election, knowingly publishes a false statement of the withdrawal of a candidate at such election for the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of another candidate, shall be guilty of an illegal practice and shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine of $2,000 and be incapable during a period of five years from the date of conviction, of being registered as a voter or of voting at an election.
Queen's Counsel Ariel Misick secured victory in Emerald Cay case
Queen's Counsel Ariel Misick secured the victory in the Emerald Cay case against TCI Attorney General Huw Shepheard, the Civil Recovery Unit and the Registrar of Lands.
British law Lords have dismissed an appeal that was brought by TCI Attorney General Huw Shepheard, the Civil Recovery Unit and the Registrar of Lands over the recovery of unpaid stamp duty and penalties in relation to the sale of the private island of Emerald Cay in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Turks and Caicos Islands Queen's Counsel ArieMisick secured the victory at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Wednesday.
The Council, the highest court in the land, overruled several earlier judgments in hearings devoted to the same case. The latest appeal was heard before Lords Hope, Kerr, Reed and Carn-wath and Sir John Chad-wick, who delivered the judgment.
The Privy Council found that the Registrar of Lands operated outside of the law in dealing with the stamp duty issue surrounding Emerald Cay.
Once owned by American billionaire Tim Blixseth, Emerald Cay is located off Silly Creek and Chalk Sound, on the island of Providenciales.