AFP - A Mexican suspect in the March drive-by shooting of a US consulate worker in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez appeared at a closed-door hearing in a Texas court, the San Antonio News said Saturday.

AFP - A Japanese court Monday sentenced two Greenpeace activists to suspended one-year jail terms for stealing a box of whale meat that the group said was proof of embezzlement in state-run "research whaling".

AFP - A Bahamas judge dismissed charges Monday against two alleged extortionists, halting a planned retrial in a case involving the death of Hollywood star John Travolta's son, court sources said.

AP - A judge in the Bahamas dismissed charges Monday against two people accused of trying to extort money from John Travolta after the actor decided he no longer wanted to face the pain of a new trial stemming from the death of his teenage son on the island chain.

AFP - John Lennon's killer was denied parole Tuesday for the sixth time since he was locked up for murdering the Beatle superstar in New York three decades ago.

AP - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, accused people who wrongly believe Obama is Muslim of catering to political enemies during a fiery speech Sunday in Arkansas.

AP - More law enforcement teams were being called in Sunday to hunt down a man accused of killing a Utah sheriff's deputy.

AP - A gunman entered a western Arizona home and fatally shot five people, including the mother of his two children and her new boyfriend, before fleeing with the kids to Southern California where he killed himself, police said Sunday.

Reuters - A U.S. aid worker was released in Darfur on Monday after being held by her kidnappers for more than 100 days, a Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman said.

AP - A man considered a person of interest in the death of a 14-year-old girl is a flight risk and a potential danger to the public, the Kansas attorney general told a judge Monday.

Reuters - Former baseball pitching star Roger Clemens on Monday pleaded not guilty to six counts that he lied and obstructed a congressional investigation about whether he used banned substances to enhance his performance.

AFP - Former ace pitcher Roger Clemens pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of perjury and obstruction of Congress in a probe of doping in baseball.