foul play

. Alastair Leithead reports from Los Angeles.

The video footage of Rodney King's beating at the hands of four white police officers sent tensions within the African-American community in Los Angeles soaring. Their acquittal the following year sparked the LA riots, which killed more than 50 people and injured thousands more. After a high-speed chase, Rodney King, who was on

parole

, was stopped and then Tasered and beaten almost to death. In the years since, he'd struggled to live a stable life within the law, but had recently written a memoir of his life and was due to marry.

Voting has ended in Egypt on the second and final day of the run-off to choose the next president. The Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi is running against Ahmed Shafik, who served as prime minister under Hosni Mubarak. Turnout was estimated at about 40%.

The heir to the Saudi

throne

, Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, has been buried in Mecca. King Abdullah and other senior members of the royal family attended evening prayers in the grand mosque in Mecca in the presence of Prince Nayef's body, which was wrapped in a brown cloak. The Saudis have not yet announced who will take his place as the next in line to the throne.

The Argentine tennis player David Nalbandian has been disqualified during the final of a tennis tournament in London for accidentally injuring a line judge. After losing a game to his Croatian opponent Marin Cilic, Nalbandian attacked an advertising board, which hit the official and cut his leg.