Tuesday 9 June 2009

Today's Top Stories - according to the BBC

BBC NEWS
11:47 GMT, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:47 UK

Picture of Ahmed Ghailani on the FBI website Guantanamo detainee sent to NY for trial
The first Guantanamo detainee to face a US civilian trial arrives in New York and is to appear in court later.

Ken Saro-Wiwa Shell settles Nigeria deaths case
Oil firm Shell agrees to pay $15.5m to families of a group of Nigerian activists executed in 1995, but accepts no liability.

Court sketch of Veronique Courjault. France 'freezer baby' case begins
The trial begins in France of a woman accused of killing three of her babies and hiding two of them in a freezer.

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