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By Chelsea Bailey and Amanda Musa, CNN Erik Menendez, left, and his brother Lyle listen during a pre-trial hearing on 29 December 1992. Photo: AFP / VINCE BUCCI As the Los Angeles County district attorney weighs new evidence that could see Lyle and Erik Menendez released from prison after more than 30 years, nearly two dozen of their relatives are expected to speak on their behalf at a news conference. In 1996, the Menendez brothers were convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty, in their Beverly Hills home. Although they have never denied killing their parents, both men maintained during their trial that they acted in self-defence and suffered years of physical and sexual abuse from their father. Atto...

Liam Payne at the BRIT Awards in London in 2019. Photo: AFP / TOLGA AKMEN By Dan Heching and Manuela Castro, CNN Liam Payne, a former member of boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, according to police there. He was 31. More to come... - CNN Source link

United States President Jimmy Carter holds a press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on 4 August 1980. Photo: AFP / File Fifteen days after turning 100, former US president Jimmy Carter cast his vote in the US election, fulfilling an earlier declared wish to live long enough to back Kamala Harris in the poll. The former Democratic leader "voted by mail," according to the Carter Center, the non-profit he founded after he left the White House in 1981 to pursue his vision of world diplomacy. The centenarian - who left office under a cloud of unpopularity, but has seen his star rise ever since - took advantage of early voting in his home state of Georgia, where he is receiving hospice care. Carter had told his family earlier this year that living long enough t...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attends a press conference on 14 October 2024, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, after Canada expelled six top Indian diplomats, including the country's ambassador. Photo: AFP / DAVE CHAN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says India made "a horrific mistake" by thinking it could interfere as aggressively as it allegedly did in Canada's sovereignty. Trudeau made the remark two days after Canada kicked out six Indian diplomats, linking them to the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada and alleging a broader effort to target Indian dissidents in the country. The Canadian leader's comments were the strongest he has made in a year-long dispute that plunged bilateral relations to a new low. "The Indian government made a horrific mistake in thinki...