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Cuba has suspended all postal deliveries to the United States until further notice. The suspension follows stricter security measures imposed by the US last year after the attempted mailing of explosives from Yemen. The Cuban postal service says large amounts of mail were refused entry and returned. Correspondents say the cost of so many returns may have led to the decision to stop the service.
The founder of an Italian luxury leather goods company has announced that he'll foot the bill so that urgently needed restoration can get underway on one of the world's most famous monuments, the Colosseum in Rome. The donor is offering $34m, the largest injection of private money for the
upkeep
of any of Italy's many ancient but crumbling monuments.
A French court has convicted the former boss of the French-American media giant, Vivendi Universal, of embezzlement and false reporting to the stock market. Jean-Marie Messier was ousted in 2002 following the purchase of Universal when it had debts of $47bn. He's been given a three-year suspended prison sentence and fined $200,000. A lawyer representing the small shareholders, Frederik Karel Canoy, said it was a hard-fought victory.
"We won. It's a victory we've been waiting for eight years. We have a total answer from the tribunal, so I'm proud to be French. We don't need to bring the case to the United States to have a judicial answer."
Staff at an aquarium in Ukraine are worried about the health of one of their crocodiles after it ate a mobile phone accidentally dropped into its