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24 hours of news photos: 19 March 2012

The Duchess of Cambridge makes her first public speech during a visit to one of her charities in Ipswich.

NEW YORK (AP) -- It was a decade when tens of millions of people in the U.S. experienced mass unemployment and social upheaval as the nation clawed its way out of the Great Depression and rumblings of global war were heard from abroad....

David Frum says Sachs' public bid for the World Bank's top post breaks with tradition in which presidents fill such jobs in secrecy

A gunman on a scooter has opened fire on a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse, killing three children and a teacher, police say.

Yang Su and Xin He say the revelation of his lies about Apple should not divert attention away from the problem of Chinese labor abuse.

Douglas Rushkoff says whistleblowers used to point out malfeasance, but two ex-employees' publicly trashed Goldman Sachs and Google for business plans they didn't like

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- A legal activist in Myanmar says a top rebel official who was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison on treason charges has been freed under a presidential pardon....

A group of Chinese authors are suing Apple for £2.3m over allegedly pirated titles being published in the App Store.

A new stage adaptation of the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers is to tour the UK and Ireland from September.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A wildlife official says a fire on Kenya's tallest mountain has consumed hundreds of acres of forest and is forcing thousands of animals to flee....

One of the bidders Rangers has warned it will not pursue its interest in the club if the Ticketus season ticket deal is in force, a court hears.

Bolton captain Kevin Davies says playing is "irrelevant at the minute" with team-mate Fabrice Muamba still in hospital.

The national minimum wage will rise by 11p to £6.19 an hour in October, but will be frozen for workers aged under 21.

Belarus executes two men convicted of a metro bombing in Minsk in April which killed 15 people, drawing EU condemnation.

The Duchess of Cambridge has made her first public speech as a member of the Royal family.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- The last straw for 17-year-old Alton Burke was a note left on his door. The high school dropout picked up the phone and re-enrolled at South Hagerstown High....

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Embattled San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi faces sentencing for false imprisonment in a closely watched domestic violence case involving his Venezuelan actress wife, in a dramatic saga that has gripped his city for nearly three months....

LONDON (AP) -- Schoolchildren, charity fundraisers, war veterans and a centenarian are among 8,000 people who will carry the Olympic flame in the torch relay for the 2012 London Games, organizers announced Monday....

A defendant who denied living in an apartment at the time of a search did not waive his reasonable expectation of privacy in the apartment where he actually paid the rent. A ruse to get defendant to open the door of the apartment did not violate the Fourth Amendment. It would have if the ruse led to consent, but this one didn’t. People v. Nelson, 2012 Colo. App. LEXIS 419 (March 15, 2012).

“[W]e need not conduct the balancing test for an Article 1, Section 11 determination because the manager of the motel evicted Harper immediately upon his arrest and then gave officers permission to search the room.” Harper v. State, 2012 Ind. App. LEXIS 102 (March 15, 2012).*

Defendant consented after he was told he was free to go. His prior possession offenses made the officer “curious.” McLain v. State, 2012 Ind. App. LEXIS 106 (March 16, 2012).*