Nine members of a white supremacist group in Russia have been given jail sentences of between 2 and 22 years for killing a man from Cameroon. It's the latest in a series of court cases involving racist attacks in Russia. Here is John ...
Three of the group, knowed as the Simbirsk White Power, were convicted of the racially motivated murder of the Cameroonian, Etizok Ndobe Ernest, who worked in the central city of Ulyanovsk, as a DJ. Investigators said his throat was slit since he was stapped repeatly on his way home from work in 2008. This latest case comes as the Russian authorities appear to be making a concerted effort to combat hate crime. Independent groups that monitor the issue say the number of those killed in racially motivated attacks last year dropped by more than a quarter to just over 70. A figure they say is still unacceptable high.
Germany and France have suggested a possible ban on the trade in some types of complex financial instruments that have playing for worsening the Greek debt crisis. Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Nicolas Sarkozy in a joint letter call for the European Commission to investigate the actions of speculators. They say if the financial instruments, known as credit defaults swaps are found to have been abused, they should be outlawed.
The British Rock Group Pink Floyd has won a legal battle against its record label EMI in a dispute over how its music is sold online. A British judge ruled that EMI could not longer sell individual Pink Floyd tracks rather than whole albums over the Internet without the Band's permission. The ruling also applies to mobile phone ring tunes.