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Prince Harry is to receive an award for his charitable and humanitarian work in supporting servicemen and women.

Pollsters had told us that the French were bored by a dull campaign which had seen more personal attacks flying than issues being debated. They were wrong.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian semiofficial news agency reports that the country has disconnected its main crude oil terminal from the Internet to avoid being attacked by computer malware....

A deal is struck to sell Edinburgh Airport to the owner of Gatwick and London City airports for £807m.

MIAMI (AP) -- In a low-key event, George Zimmerman was released from a Florida jail on $150,000 bail as he awaits his second-degree murder trial in the fatal shooting of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin....

Donations to a fund-raising page set up by a woman who collapsed close to the London Marathon finish line rise to more than £200,000.

Global stocks fall after weak manufacturing data and political uncertainty in France and the Netherlands hit investor confidence.

Malawi's former President Bingu wa Mutharika, who died from a cardiac arrest on 5 April, is buried at his private farm in the south of the country.

Nine French tourists are ejected from the Indian state of Bihar for alleged involvement in Maoist activities, police officials say.

Negotiations start on April 26 over what happens to data taken offline by the shut down of file-sharing site Megaupload.

Police arrest a 20-year-old man on suspicion of murdering a two-year-old boy in Bolton.

The BBC confirms a third series of the period drama Upstairs Downstairs will not be commissioned.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A gift of balloons. That, prosecutors contend, is what sent singer Jennifer Hudson's then brother-in-law into such a jealous rage that he shot dead her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in a horrific act of vindictiveness in the home where the Hollywood star grew up....

David Cameron brushes off claims he is too relaxed, but tells the BBC he wants his ministers to "raise their game" after a "difficult month".

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was narrowly beaten into second place in presidential elections Sunday, as the National Front candidate Marine Le Pen posted the best result ever for a far-right candidate, the Interior Ministry announced with all the votes counted Monday.

North Korea warns of "unprecedented" action against South Korea's ruling establishment, amid tough rhetoric between both countries.

Defendant’s arguments in the trial court were not the same ones made on appeal, so his appeal is governed by the plain error standard, and he doesn’t succeed for lack of a record supporting his argument. He was shot during what was found to be a Terry stop with guns drawn. Under Graham v. Connor, it appeared, on this record, it was justified enough to support the district court's conclusion. United States v. Hill, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 8072 (4th Cir. April 19, 2012)*:

Hill argues that when we weigh the three factors enumerated in Graham — the severity of the crime at issue, whether the suspect poses an immediate threat to the safety of the officers or others, and whether the suspect was actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight — it is apparent the officers "did not have an objectively reasonable ground to shoot Hill." Appellant's Br. at 25. As to the severity of the crime, he argues it weighs in his favor because at no point did the officers suspect Hill of having committed a crime; other than knowing that Bennett had written "help" on the receipt and herself carried a gun, all their information came from their observations of Hill inside the car. As to the third factor, he argues, Hill was not actively resisting arrest or attempting to flee.

The reasonableness of the officers' actions thus comes down to whether Hill's movements inside the car rendered reasonable the officers' belief that Hill posed an imminent threat to them, justifying the use of deadly force. The government argues the officers were justified in interpreting Hill's movements as evidence that he was reaching for a gun. Hill argues that belief was unreasonable because "the movement of a suspect's hands, without more, while he is under arrest is insufficient to give rise to an objectively reasonable basis for the police to use deadly force." Appellant's Br. at 26. Only if "the police had seen him with a gun, or had reliable and specific information that he was known to be armed," might this have been a "significant factor," he argues. Id. He also points out that the officers' descriptions of Hill's precise movements were inconsistent, and that it was Bennett, not Hill, whom the officers knew was armed.

Here again, our problem is the absence of adequate information to find that it was "obvious" that Hill did not pose an imminent threat of serious physical harm to the officers. Had Hill raised these issues in the district court, the risk of non-persuasion on these issues would have been cast upon the government to justify a warrantless seizure. See, e.g., United States v. Basinski, 226 F.3d 829, 833 (7th Cir. 2000); United States v. Burke, 605 F. Supp. 2d 688, 693-94 (D. Md. 2009). But under the plain error standard we apply here, Hill must shoulder the burden to prove the contrary. Without findings by the district court on these and related issues, and particularly inasmuch as the surveillance video does not show Hill's movements in the car, we may not plausibly notice plain error on this record and we decline to do so.

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David Cameron has rejected accusations that he is lazy: "It's got to be possible to be a decent husband, a good father and a good prime minister at the same time," he tells John Humphrys.

Paul Murray's Blue Knights and American Bill Miller seek more time before lodging fresh bids to buy Rangers.