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A court in the United States has sentenced a Cuban-American man who'd pleaded guilty to hijacking a plane in 1968 to 15 years in prison. The man, Luis Armando Pena Soltren, had forced the pilot of the plane, which was flying from New York to Puerto Rico, to land in Cuba instead. He said he had hijacked the plane to be able to see his father, who was ill. Mr Soltren turned himself into the US authorities last year after spending more than four decades in Cuba.
A preliminary hearing to determine whether Michael Jackson's doctor should stand trial for manslaughter has opened in Los Angeles. Dr Conrad Murray has pleaded not guilty but faces up to four years in prison if convicted. Rajesh Mirchandani reports.
Prosecutors are setting out some of their case against Dr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician who's charged with his manslaughter. They say Dr Murray had been treating the singer's insomnia with the powerful anaesthetic propofol nearly every day for
roughly
two months up to and including the day he died in 2009. They say evidence will show the star died in his bedroom and that Dr Murray waited as long as 21 minutes before calling for help.
It's thought Dr Murray's lawyers may argue that Michael Jackson injected himself with the
lethal
dose in June 2009.
Ten days after his death in Miami, a dispute over where to bury the former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez has been