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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- On Yangon's teeming streets, 2012 is the year of Aung San Suu Kyi....

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- On Yangon's teeming streets, 2012 is the year of Aung San Suu Kyi....

HOUSTON (AP) -- Investors taken in by Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford expressed relief and a sense of vindication after a federal jury convicted the jet-setting financier of swindling them out of more than $7 billion. But they said the verdict will never replace the loss of their life savings....

Apple rolled out a high-definition iPad with a faster processor, a better camera and a display screen that promises to be dramatically sharper.

Britain's big aid programme in India is under scrutiny as never before. Critics say that India should be able to fund its own development, since it has nuclear weapons and a space programme.

The police were largely apolitical until Tony Blair said "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime", ex-Met chief Lord Blair tells the Leveson Inquiry.

Prince Harry has paid a personal tribute to the Queen, describing her as a "wonderful, caring grandmother" to whom he is utterly devoted.

An Indonesian court sentences former Citibank executive Malinda Dee to eight years in prison for stealing more than $4m (£2.5m) from her wealthy clients.

Anders Behring Breivik, who confessed to attacks which left 77 people dead and 242 injured in Norway, is charged with committing terror acts.

David Cameron has offered his thoughts to the families and friends of six British soldiers "missing, believed killed" in Afghanistan.

The head of Britain's Olympic talent factory believes the team could win more medals in 2016 than at this summer's Games.

In what is a footnote to the GPS case, Jones’s claim previously barred by Heck can conceivably be resurrected by F.R.C.P. 60(b)(5), not by mandamus, but qualified immunity may be a problem [it will]. In re Jones, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4575 (D.C. Cir. March 6, 2012)*:

Two years after the district court dismissed Jones’ civil case¸ this Court reversed Jones’ conviction. See United States v. Maynard, 615 F.3d 544 (D.C. Cir. 2010). The Supreme Court recently affirmed that ruling. See United States v. Jones, 132 S. Ct. 945 (2012). Because Jones can now show that the dismissal of his civil suit was “based on an earlier judgment that has been reversed or vacated,” he might consider filing a motion in district court under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(5). See Robinson v. Connell, No. 9:05-CV-1428 (GLS/ATB), 2010 WL 6268444, at *2 (N.D.N.Y. Sept. 8, 2010) (magistrate report and recommendation) (Second Circuit remanded civil claim, which had been dismissed under Heck, to district court to consider motion under Rue 60(b)(5) after criminal sentence was allegedly vacated), on remand from No. 08-1992-pr (2d Cir. Aug. 25, 2009). In the alternative, Jones might consider re-filing his complaint. Although Jones expresses concern that re-filing might raise “statute of limitations issues,” Pet. Br. 13–14 n.3, the Supreme Court has implied that, even if Jones’ claims had accrued before the district court dismissed them under Heck, the statutes of limitations should be tolled as long as the bar of Heck prevented Jones’ suit from going forward. See Wallace v. Kato, 549 U.S. 384, 395 n.4 (2007) (“Had petitioner filed suit upon his arrest and had his suit then been dismissed under Heck, the statute of limitations, absent tolling, would have run by the time he obtained reversal of his conviction. If under those circumstances he were not allowed to refile his suit, Heck would produce immunity from § 1983 liability, a result surely not intended.”).

Plaintiff’s claims for the wrongful towing of his car after his arrest were shown to be Heck barred. Dismissals for Heck bars are without prejudice. Rowell v. Ewing Bros. Towing Co., 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 4625 (9th Cir. March 6, 2012) (unpublished).*

A high-ranking Nigerian customs officer has been shot dead by gunmen thought to be from the militant Islamist sect Boko Haram, police say.

The body of a dead whale washed up on a beach in Skegness on Saturday has been removed.

Facebook was inaccessible for many users across Europe for about two hours on Wednesday morning due to "technical difficulties".

Leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, say they will not help Iran militarily in any conflict between Israel and the Islamic Republic.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More scientists are getting closer in the search for the "God particle" of physics that would help explain the fundamentals of the universe, but they haven't found it yet....

Tuesday night was super to some degree for every Republican presidential candidate except Rep. Ron Paul of Texas.

Former Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive Sir George Mathewson says plans to break up the bank are "totally inappropriate".

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