The jury reached its verdict on the second day of deliberations. Doctor Conrad Murray faces up to four years in jail if he's found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He's been accused of giving Michael Jackson a lethal dose of the powerful anaesthetic, propofol. The decision of the seven men and five women will be read in open court and televised around the world.
The Chinese artist and government critic Ai Weiwei says thousands of his supporters have donated money to help him pay a tax bill of $2.5m. So far he's received more than $0.75m, much of it through Internet and bank transfers. Ai Weiwei told the BBC it was amazing to receive such gestures of solidarity.
The international militant known as Carlos the Jackal has gone on trial in Paris in connection with bomb attacks on trains in France in the 1980s that killed 11 people. He described himself in court as a professional revolutionary but denies the charges. Carlos, who's also known as Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is already serving a life sentence in France for the murder of two policemen. A BBC correspondent says the man, once mythologised as the quintessential terrorist, is now a rather chubby, dapper man in late middle age.
A survey of Roman Catholic priests in Austria has found that a majority of respondents believe that reforms to the Church are urgently needed. The survey of 500 local clergy commissioned by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation found that two thirds felt that there was a dramatic split between the Church and what was termed modern culture. More than half said they supported the idea of women priests.