Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 04 April 2015 | 22.57
The Moon was tinged with red for a short lunar eclipse which was seen by stargazers in parts of the Pacific Rim.
The eclipse - in which the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow - was seen in northern Japan, parts of Australia and areas of western North America.
The partial lunar eclipse seen in Utsunomiya, Japan
It began at 7.15pm in Japan and at around 8.54pm the moon was fully covered by the Earth's shadow.
The obscured Moon is seen behind fully bloomed cherry blossoms
Residents of Tokyo – keen to see the local cherry blossoms with the rare background – gave up on viewing the so-called "blood moon" due to thick cloud.
A collage of images taken by Chris Calubaquib in California
The Moon was clearly visible in the early morning skies of Los Angeles region, casting its coloured light across Hollywood's deserted streets.
The Blood Moon seen from Auckland, New Zealand
The city's Griffith Park observatory located near the Hollywood sign was streaming the event live over the Internet.
The Moon as seen from an area north of Tokyo
Last month a solar eclipse was visible across northern Africa, most of Europe, northwest Asia and the Middle East.
A survivor of the Kenya university massacre which saw 148 people killed has been found two days after the attack.
Kenyan medical staff are reported to have found Cynthia Cheroitich during the grim task of dealing with the bodies of those killed by members of Somalia-based terror group al Shabaab.
The 19-year-old said from her hospital bed that she hid in a large cupboard, covering herself with clothes, refusing to emerge when some of her classmates came out of hiding at the demands of the gunmen.
She said she drank lotion to stave off thirst and hunger.
She said she did not believe that rescuers urging her to come out of her hiding place were there to help, suspecting at first that they were militants.
Video:'I Pretended To Be Dead'
It was only when Kenyan security forces had one of her teachers appeal to her that she did she come out, she said.
Ms Cheroitich, a Christian, said: "I was just praying to my God."
Fellow student Cheruiot Tiebafy told how he used the blood of his colleagues to survive the massacre.
Video:Woman Hid In Wardrobe From Gunmen
He said: "Actually I am the only man who survived from all the boys who were held hostage.
"I just smeared the blood of my colleagues, I ate the blood to be my lunch and I go to sleep there for around 13 good hours when we got to be hostage and I pretended to be dead.
"They turned me around, they kicked me but I'm alive."
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Gallery: Graphic Images From Kenya Massacre
This man was captured at the scene by Kenyan authorities
Mohamed Mohamud has been named as the mastermind behind the attack
Hardline Somali al Shabaab extremists who have carried out an armed raid on a university in eastern Kenya are responsible for a catalogue of deadly terror attacks in the region.
With the raid in Garissa the latest, here are some of the other atrocities committed by the group:
Guests flee the al Shabaab attack on the Maka Al-Mukarramah Hotel
March, 2015: At least 24 people, including six militants, were killed during a siege at the Maka Al-Mukarramah Hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
February, 2015: A suicide attack at the Central Hotel in Mogadishu killed 25 people and wounded 40 others. Government officials were meeting in the hotel at the time, and Mogadishu's deputy mayor and two legislators were among the dead.
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Gallery: Terror Attack At Kenyan University
A siege by militants at a university in eastern Kenya has ended after four gunmen were killed. At least 147 people have been killed, with 79 confirmed as wounded
Somalia's al Shabaab terror group has claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack, which began when many students were sleeping
Written By Unknown on Jumat, 03 April 2015 | 22.57
Data from the second black box recovered from the Germanwings plane wreckage has confirmed the co-pilot crashed the jet deliberately.
"A first reading shows that the pilot in the cockpit used the automatic pilot to descend the plane towards an altitude of 100ft (30m)," said the French BEA crash investigation office in a statement.
"Then, several times during the descent, the pilot changed the automatic pilot settings to increase the aircraft's speed."
The first flight recorder was found last week
The latest information appears to confirm the theory that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally flew into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Authorities found the second black box, which contains technical flight data, on Thursday after a nine-day search in difficult mountain terrain.
Data from the first black box, which records conversations in the cockpit, suggested Lubitz, 27, locked the captain out and then set the Airbus A320 on a collision course.
It smashed into the mountains at 430mph, instantly killing everyone on board. Half were German and more than 50 from Spain.
It emerged on Thursday that Lubitz had searched online for information about suicide and cockpit doors.
Video:Phones Found In Crash Debris
German prosecutors have said he was diagnosed as suicidal "several years ago" before he gained his pilot's licence.
Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, has come under huge pressure after it was revealed Lubitz had told bosses he suffered from depression.
The German flag carrier said he had informed the airline about his illness in 2009 after interrupting his flight training.
Video:Alps Plane Crash Task Force
Doctors had recently found no sign he intended to hurt himself or others, although he had been signed off sick a number of times, including on the day of the crash.
Police found torn-up sick notes during a search of his apartment after the disaster.
The first black box suggested people were only aware of what was happening seconds before the plane, which was heading from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, crashed.
Video:Hollande: Identification This Week
However, French and German media claim to have seen a video showing the final moments aboard the airliner, which they said was shot on a mobile phone found in the debris.
The video reportedly shows a chaotic scene with people screaming "my God" in several different languages.
On Thursday investigators said they had found mobile phones amongst the debris of the jet, although they had not yet produced any clues as to what happened.
Video has emerged of the massacre at a university campus in north-eastern Kenya in which 147 people were killed by Islamist extremists.
It shows students running for their lives and hiding behind bushes as bullets whistle through the air.
Four masked al Shabaab gunmen rampaged through Garissa University College at dawn on Thursday in the group's deadliest attack in the country.
They were eventually killed by security forces 13 hours later after a lengthy gun battle.
The suspected mastermnd of the attack, Mohammed Mohamud
The attackers, who were strapped with bombs and armed with AK-47s, singled out non-Muslim students and gunned them down without mercy, survivors said.
They took dozens of hostages in a dormitory as they battled troops and police before they were hit by gunfire and exploded, according to Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery.
Video:Timeline: al Shabaab Attacks
He said most of the victims were students, but two security guards, one policeman and one soldier were also killed.
At least 79 people were wounded on the campus, which lies 145km (90 miles) from the Somali border. Some were flown to the capital Nairobi for treatment.
One suspected extremist was arrested as he tried to flee, Mr Nkaissery told a news conference.
One survivor, Collins Wetangula, told The Associated Press he was about to take a shower when he heard gunshots coming from a nearby dormitory, one of six on the campus.
"All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots. Nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are," he said.
He added: "The gunmen were saying, 'Sisi ni al-Shabab'" - Swahili for "We are al Shabaab."
Video:Militants Kill Dozens In Rampage
He said he heard the attackers arrive at his dormitory, open the doors and ask if those inside were Muslims or Christians.
"If you were a Christian, you were shot on the spot," he said. "With each blast of the gun, I thought I was going to die."
He said fortunately soldiers then arrived and took him and around 20 others to safety.
Another student, Augustine Alanga, said the attack began at about 5.30am as morning prayers were under way at the university mosque, where worshippers were left alone.
At least five heavily-armed gunmen opened fire outside his dormitory, sparking panic, he told AP. He said some students remained indoors but scores of others fled with the attackers firing at them.
Police say the massacre may have been masterminded by Mohammed Mohamud and are offering a large reward for information leading to his capture.
Video:Nov 2014: Al Shabaab Bus Massacre
Also known by the names Dulyadin and Gamadhere, he was a teacher at an Islamic religious school, or madrassa, and claimed responsibility for a bus attack in Makka, Kenya, in November that killed 28 people.
A spokesman for Somalia-based al Shabaab said the college attackers were members of their al Qaeda-linked group.
Al Shabaab has been blamed for a series of attacks in Kenya, including the siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in 2013 that killed 67 people, as well as other violence in the north.
The group has vowed to retaliate against the government for sending troops to Somalia in 2011 to tackle militants staging cross-border raids.
After exhausting and contentious talks, Iran and six world powers have agreed on a framework for a deal that would curb Iran's nuclear programme.
The apparent breakthrough came after talks were twice extended beyond a 31 March deadline to reach an outline for a deal.
Speaking at the White House, President Barack Obama called it a "good deal" that would address concerns about Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called it a "win-win outcome".
The deal needs to be finalised by the end of June.
John Kerry (2nd L) and others watch a tablet in Lausanne as Mr Obama speaks
Among some of the key points to the pending deal was Iran's agreement to halt construction of any new uranium enrichment facilities for 15 years, US Secretary of State John Kerry said.
Iran would also reduce its current number of centrifuges from 19,000 to 6,104, and all enriched uranium would be capped at 3.67%, which is standard for civilian nuclear power.
Video:Obama Announces Iran Deal
Iran also agreed to reduce its current stockpile of low-enriched uranium from 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, Mr Kerry said.
The top US diplomat called Thursday's breakthrough a "critical milestone" in the quest to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
He added, however, that many technical details needed to be worked out ahead of the 30 June deadline for a final accord.
Western powers have been working to reach a deal that would stop Iran from developing the capacity to build a nuclear weapon, in exchange for easing international sanctions that are crippling its economy.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said an end to the nuclear-related sanctions would be "a major step forward" for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Video:'True Dialogue Can Solve Problems'
"We have stopped a cycle that was not in the interest of anybody," Mr Zarif said from Switzerland.
"I hope that at the end of this process we will all show that through dialogue and engagement with dignity we can in fact resolve problems, open new horizons and move forward."
According to the framework agreement, the sanctions would only be lifted after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had verified that Iran took all agreed steps.
Mr Obama hailed the breakthrough as "historic".
"It is a good deal - a deal that meets our core objectives," he said.
Video:3 March: Israeli PM Warns Of Threat
"This framework would cut off any pathway that Iran could take to develop a nuclear weapon."
Preempting critics of the pending deal, the President added: "If Iran cheats, the world will know. If we see something suspicious we will inspect it."
The American leader also spoke by telephone with Mr Netanyahu, perhaps the sharpest critic of the diplomacy with Iran.
The Israeli prime minister told Obama a deal based on the agreement "would threaten the survival of Israel".
Iran has said its nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
Hardline Somali al Shabaab extremists who have carried out an armed raid on a university in eastern Kenya are responsible for a catalogue of deadly terror attacks in the region.
With the raid in Garissa the latest, here are some of the other atrocities committed by the group:
Guests flee the al Shabaab attack on the Maka Al-Mukarramah Hotel
March, 2015: At least 24 people, including six militants, were killed during a siege at the Maka Al-Mukarramah Hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
February, 2015: A suicide attack at the Central Hotel in Mogadishu killed 25 people and wounded 40 others. Government officials were meeting in the hotel at the time, and Mogadishu's deputy mayor and two legislators were among the dead.
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Gallery: Terror Attack At Kenyan University
A siege by militants at a university in eastern Kenya has ended after four gunmen were killed. At least 147 people have been killed, with 79 confirmed as wounded
Somalia's al Shabaab terror group has claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack, which began when many students were sleeping
When it involves Iran's nuclear aspirations, it seems.
Many hours of airtime and acres of newsprint have been expended on the overtime "deal" to limit Iran's capability to build a nuclear weapon.
But as yet it's all ifs, buts and maybes. More than any other deal the devil in this one really is in the detail. And that's where the problems arise.
There were celebration on the streets of Tehran after Mr Obama's speech
President Barack Obama faces a monumental fight to make his legacy project happen and keep the world safe from a nuclear-armed Iran. And most of the opposition comes from within the US.
Put simply, much of the population here and many members of Congress of both stripes don't trust the Iranians or Mr Obama's resolve to hold the powerbrokers in Tehran's feet to the flames should they backslide on their commitments.
Video:White House Hails 'Historic' Deal
The framework for the deal, which would only actually become tangible on 30 June if all goes well, in simple terms, restricts Iran's ability to enrich uranium to weapons grade.
In return, the US and the rest of the world will slowly release their boot from Tehran's economic neck.
Mr Obama calls the breakthrough "historic" and says it will make the world a safer place.
His opponents say he's being hoodwinked by canny, untrustworthy, double-speakers in Iran who will wriggle and squirm to free themselves from the nuclear shackles while spending their newfound wealth on destabilising the Middle East and plotting America's demise.
Congress already has its sights set on the Iranian situation and is demanding a say in the final deal and reassurances that crippling sanctions, which got Iran to talk in the first place, will snap back into place if there's a sniff of Tehran pushing ahead with a nuke.
Mr Obama has a couple of weeks to get his political retaliation in first.
Congress is not back from its recess until the middle of the month and the White House will hope to have "sold" the upsides of the deal sufficiently to head off any unrest from lawmakers, which might overturn Mr Obama's grand plan.
Unsurprisingly, Israel doesn't like the deal either.
Video:'True Dialogue Can Solve Problems'
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has made it abundantly clear, that deal or not, Israel won't hesitate to take military action against Iran if it feels threatened.
Israel and Mr Netanyahu have many supporters here in the US.
He controversially addressed Congress on the perils of Iran just last month, much to the chagrin of the Obama administration.
And House Speaker John Boehner, who called the framework "naive", has been in Jerusalem this week hearing first-hand the Israeli objections to parlaying with Tehran.
In truth, the outline of the deal is tougher on Iran than many here expected and many of the naysayers will have to recalibrate their opposition if they are to continue to cry foul.
Written By Unknown on Kamis, 02 April 2015 | 22.57
Investigators say they have found mobile phones amongst the debris of the German passenger jet that crashed in the French Alps.
So far the devices have not produced any clues as to what happened when the Germanwings A320 went down, killing all 150 people on board.
However, Lt. Col Jean-Marc Menichini said they had yet to be given a full examination. He declined to elaborate.
Search teams have been looking for the second black box flight recorder
Earlier this week French magazine Paris-Match and German tabloid Bild said they had seen a video of the final moments of the flight recorded on a mobile phone.
Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them."
Video:Alps Plane Crash Task Force
A lead investigator into the crash later called on anyone with footage of the disaster to hand it over to authorities.
Special mountain troops are continuing to search the area for personal belongings and the second black box flight recorder.
Investigators believe the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately steered the plane into the mountainside after locking the pilot out of the cockpit.
It has also emerged Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before he got his pilot's licence and had torn up sick notes.
Video:Lufthansa Chief Exec At Crash Site
Germany is to set up a task force to examine safety issues such as the cockpit door mechanism and pilots' mental health.
It follows a meeting between Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt and the German Aviation Association, which represents airlines.
"We want to look at psychological criteria and procedures. We also want to look at the question - how do we recognise any indication of psychological issues," Mr Dobrindt said.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said on Wednesday it will take a "long time" to fully establish what led to the crash.
Video:Hollande: Identification This Week
"We are learning more every day about the causes of the accident," he said in a statement near the crash site.
But he added: "It will take a long, long time for all of us to understand how this could happen."
He refused to answer questions on what Lufthansa knew about Lubitz's mental health.
On Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande said all 150 victims will be identified by the end of the week.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
This contradicted an earlier report in Bild that said relatives may have to wait much longer, with no guarantees their loved ones will be found.
The violence with which the Airbus smashed into the French Alps last week has severely hampered the DNA identification process.
Flight 4U 9525 was on its way from Barcelona to Dusseldorf when it came down. To date not a single body has been found intact.
A two-day auction of belongings at Hollywood star Lauren Bacall's Manhattan apartment has raised £2.4m ($3.6m).
Auctioneers Bonhams said as many as 1,500 bidders tried to get their hands on the film and theatre legend's artwork, furniture, jewellery and possessions on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Objects associated with her first husband, Humphrey Bogart, went above their estimates including a steamer trunk that was bought for £32,000 ($47,500).
Other highlights of the sale, which was of items in her apartment in The Dakota building off Central Park, included an 1836 hand-coloured Audubon engraving called American White Pelican which made £117,000 ($173,000).
Hollywood star Lauren Bacall in her most successful period
Two paintings by Albert Edward York, Landscape With Trees and A Country Fence, sold for £108,000 ($161,000), setting an auction record for the American artist.
Bonhams also sold two Henry Moore sculptures from her collection in November, bringing the final sale result to £3.4m ($5m).
Bacall, the star of films such as The Big Sleep and Key Largo, died in August at age 89.
A New York police detective who was heard on video berating an Uber driver will be transferred from the police anti-terrorism division.
Patrick Cherry was also stripped of his gun and badge after the video went viral and caused embarrassment to police.
"No good cop should watch that without a wince. Because all good cops know that officer just made their jobs a little bit harder," Police Commissioner William Bratton said.
The video was taken by a passenger in the cab, who commiserated the driver
"In any kind of encounter, discourtesy like that and language like that is unacceptable."
Mr Cherry pulled over the Uber driver on Monday in Manhattan.
Video:Police Boss Condemns Uber Rant Cop
It is not clear exactly what spurred the traffic stop, but Mr Cherry is seen on the video accusing the driver of committing various traffic violations while the detective tried to park his car.
Mr Cherry swears, shouts at the driver and insults his accented English as the driver gives compliant responses, calling the detective "sir" and apologising at one point for interrupting to say, "OK".
"I don't care what you have to say. Do you understand that?" the detective says at one point.
At another point Mr Cherry asks: "How long have you been in this country?"
"The only reason you're not in handcuffs going to jail ... is because I have things to do," the officer yells.
"This isn't important enough for me. You're not important enough."
The three-and-a-half minute video appeared to have been captured by a passenger in the car, who commiserated with the driver when the officer had stepped away.
There has been no public comment from Mr Cherry.
City Detectives' Endowment Association President Michael J Palladino called Mr Cherry "a person of good character and an excellent detective".
"He really should not be judged by one isolated incident," he said.
An "unknown number of student hostages" have been taken by masked terrorists who have killed at least 15 people after storming a university in eastern Kenya.
Two police officers are among the dead following heavy gunfire and explosions in a campus building at Garissa University.
At least 65 others have been wounded.
The authorities are offering a reward for a man linked to the attack
Somalia's al Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn attack.
"We sorted people out and released the Muslims," said spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab.
Video:Gunmen Storm University Campus
"There are many dead bodies of Christians inside the building. We are also holding many Christians alive. Fighting still goes on inside the college."
Two of the militants have been killed and one arrested as he tried to flee, according to Kenya's interior ministry.
The Red Cross counted 50 students that had been safely freed, while the interior ministry said 280 of 815 students had been accounted for.
Student Michael Bwana, who managed to flee, said most of the hostages were girls.
Kenya Police Chief Joseph Boinet told reporters that gunmen forced their way into the university at 5.30am by shooting at the guards manning the main gate.
"The gunmen shot indiscriminately while inside the university compound," he said.
"Police... engaged the gunmen in a fierce shootout; however, the attackers retreated and gained entry into one of the hostels."
A gunfight between security services and the perpetrators lasted several hours, according to the Red Cross.
The area has been sealed off and the army called in to try and "flush out" the attackers.
Students reported seeing five masked gunmen.
The authorities have offered a $215,000 (£145,000) reward for a man called Mohamed Mohamud, who has been linked to the attack.
Collins Wetangula, the vice chairman of the student union, said he was preparing to take a shower when he heard gunshots coming from a dorm.
"All I could hear were footsteps and gunshots; nobody was screaming because they thought this would lead the gunmen to know where they are," he said.
"The gunmen were saying sisi ni al-Shabab (Swahili for we are al-Shabab).
"If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot. With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die."
Grace Kai, a student at a neighbouring college, said there had been warnings of an imminent attack.
"Some strangers had been spotted in Garissa town and were suspected to be terrorists," she said.
"Then on Monday our college principal told us... that strangers had been spotted in our college. On Tuesday we were released to go home, and our college closed, but the campus remained in session, and now they have been attacked."
Kenya's northern and eastern regions, which border Somalia, have been most affected by attacks blamed on al Shabaab Islamists from Somalia.
The militants, who have links to al Qaeda, have vowed to take retribution against Kenya for sending its troops to Somalia.
Al Shabaab was responsible for the deadly attack in 2013 on the Westgate shopping mall. At least 67 people were killed when a group of gunmen rampaged through the centre in Nairobi.
On the latest raid, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta said: "I extend condolences to the families of those who have perished in this attack. We continue to pray for the quick recovery of the injured, and the safe rescue of those held hostage."
He added that 10,000 police recruits would be fast-tracked following the attack.
The owners of an Indiana pizzeria who provoked uproar after refusing to cater for gay weddings say they have shut down.
The restaurant sparked a furious backlash after becoming the first business in the Midwestern state to invoke its new religious-objection law in denying service to gay couples.
An Indiana girls' golf coach is facing a criminal investigation after she tweeted a suggestion that the restaurant be burned down.
Opponents of the Indiana law, and a similar one in Arkansas, have warned the legislation would spur discrimination against LGBT people.
The restaurant has received a flood of critical online reviews on Yelp
Amid national outcry, Indiana lawmakers unveiled an amended bill on Thursday morning, a week after they enacted the original version.
Arkansas is expected to follow suit.
Video:'No One Should Be Mistreated'
Memories Pizza co-owner Crystal O'Connor told TheBlaze, a news network run by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck: "I don't know if we will re-open, or if we can, if it's safe to re-open.
"We're in hiding basically, staying in the house."
As well as a flood of critical online reviews on Yelp, the restaurant reportedly received a number of threatening messages.
Walkerton Police Department in Indiana told Sky News they are investigating Jess Dooley for possible harassment, intimidation and threats.
On Tuesday, the Concord High School coach allegedly tweeted: "Who's going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me?" The post has since been deleted.
She has also reportedly been suspended by the school.
One Yelp reviewer said: "Jesus dined with thieves and hookers. You really think He's gonna worry if gay people eat your pizza?"
Other contributors wondered who would buy pizza to cater for a wedding anyway.
But a GoFundMe page set up for the restaurant has raised nearly $100,000 (£67,500) from sympathisers.
On Wednesday, Memories co-owner Kevin O'Connor said he would serve a gay customer in his store, but would not provide food for a same-sex wedding.
"That lifestyle is something they choose. I choose to be heterosexual," Mr O'Conner told ABC 57.
"They choose to be homosexual. Why should I be beat over the head to go along with something they choose?"
On Thursday, Arkansas' legislature was working on a new, watered-down version of its Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed on Tuesday, after the Republican governor bowed to pressure not to sign it.
Some 20 US states and the federal government have passed so-called religious freedom laws, which allow individuals to sue the government if they believe their religious rights have been violated.
But Indiana and Arkansas' versions go further than most by covering private business transactions, say legal analysts.
A mafia gangster who was due to be extradited to Italy from the UK has been told he no longer has to serve his sentence.
Domenico Rancadore, known as "The Professor", hid out in Britain for more than 20 years until he was discovered living in west London in 2013.
Italian authorities wanted the 65-year-old returned to his native country because they said should spend time in jail for being head of an organised crime group.
He lost his battle against extradition in February but it emerged on Wednesday that the punishment he was due to serve has been "extinguished" since last October.
The house in Uxbridge where Rancadore lived
His solicitor Karen Todner said: "Domenico Rancadore's sentence in Italy extinguished due to age of conviction.
"I have sent a consent order for the discharge of Rancadore to the Crown Prosecution Service to sign."
Before his arrest, Rancadore was living in Uxbridge with his family under the name Marc Skinner.
After a year-and-a-half long extradition battle, the Sicilian was told he must return to Italy to serve his seven-year sentence.
He was never convicted of murder but was tried in his absence in 1999 for "association with the Mafia" because he was a member of the Cosa Nostra.
A mugshot photo of Rancadore in 1994
The mobster claimed he came to England out of fear in 1995 as he wanted to give his "children a good life" and that he felt "their life wasn't secure" in Italy.
He was first arrested on a European arrest warrant at his semi-detached London home in August 2013.
His lawyers initially defeated an attempt to extradite him on human rights grounds in March 2014 but they failed at a second attempt this year.
It is understood that under Italian law, although a conviction stands, a sentence expires once a period of more than double the time of the penalty has passed.
With a seven-year sentence, the 14-year period would have elapsed some time last year.
A German former policeman who murdered a man he met on a cannibalism fetish website has been sentenced to eight years and six months in jail.
Detlev Guenzel, 57, killed his willing victim before cutting the body into small pieces and burying them in the garden of his bed and breakfast guest house.
There was no evidence that he ate any part of Polish-born business consultant Wojciech Stempniewicz.
The crime took place at the defendant's home, a B&B inn in the mountain town of Hartmannsdorf-Reichenau near the Czech border, in November 2013.
The bed and breakfast in a mountain town where Guenzel murdered his victim
The men had come across each other a month earlier on a website for slaughter and cannibalism fantasies which billed itself as the "#1 site for exotic meat" and boasted more than 3,000 members.
Former police forensic handwriting expert Guenzel, 57, went on trial in August last year.
Dresden chief prosecutor Andreas Feron told the trial: "He killed and dismembered him to get sexual stimulation."
Guenzel retracted a confession originally made to police in which he admitted killing Mr Stempniewicz by cutting his throat.
An autopsy determined that the cause of death was asphyxiation and it was alleged Guenzel took a knife, then an electrical saw, to Mr Stempniewicz's body.
The defence team argued that the victim, who had long expressed a death wish, hanged himself in Guenzel's custom-designed "S&M studio" in his cellar.
Guenzel did not eat any of the victim's body
The men's email exchanges had the title "Schlachtfest", the German word for a country feast after the slaughter of a pig.
Defence lawyer Endrik Wilhelm told the trial in August: "In our eyes, and in the eyes of our client, it is about a suicide."
The defendant, who has children from the first of his two marriages, the second of which was to a man, sat impassively with arms folded as the verdict was read out.
Presiding judge at the sentencing at the regional court in the eastern city of Dresden Birgit Wiegand said: "He was found guilty of murder and disturbing the peace of the dead."
State prosecutors had wanted a jail sentence of 10-and-a-half years.
Lawyers representing the family of Mr Stempniewicz, 59, had requested a 15-year sentence, which is typically the maximum in a German murder case.
But prosecutors said they stopped short of this demand because he said he wanted to die.
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Lufthansa chief executive lays flowers near the site of the crash
Mobile phone footage taken from inside the Germanwings flight during its final moments has reportedly been recovered from the crash site in the French Alps.
European newspapers Paris Match and Bild have reported that the video, which Sky News has not seen, was discovered on a mobile phone found among the wreckage of flight 4U 9525.
Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people, but the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them.
"One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages."
The newspaper added that metallic banging can be heard in the footage, before the screaming gets louder and the video ends.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
A lead investigator into the crash later called on anyone with footage of the disaster to hand it over to authorities.
Prosecutor Brice Robin said videos were not yet an official part of the probe, but that anyone with footage "must hand it over immediately to investigators".
It comes after Lufthansa revealed the co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing the Germanwings plane told officials at a training school he had gone through an "episode of severe depression".
Andreas Lubitz, 27, informed instructors in 2009 that he had to break off from his pilot training for several months because of his illness.
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Gallery: Tributes Laid Near Crash Site
A memorial, carved in French, German, Spanish and English, in memory of the victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash, in the small village of Le Vernet, French Alps
The chapel prepared for the families of the victims and the medico-legal tents for investigators at Seyne les Alpes near the crash site
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Investigators gathered near the scene
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After resuming training six years ago, he provided the school with medical documents which showed he had gone through a "previous episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said.
Dusseldorf state prosecutors said on Monday Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot's licence.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said it will take a "long time" to establish the events that led to the crash.
"We are learning more every day about the causes of the accident," he said in a statement near the crash site on Wednesday.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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"It will take a long, long time for all of us to understand how this could happen."
He refused to answer questions on what Lufthansa knew about Lubitz's mental health.
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday all 150 victims of the plane crash will be identified by the end of the week.
This contradicted an earlier report in Bild that said the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Video:Co-Pilot's Motives 'Not Relevant'
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
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Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
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Video Captures Final Moments Of Alps Crash
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Lufthansa chief executive lays flowers near the site of the crash
Mobile phone footage taken from inside the Germanwings flight during its final moments has reportedly been recovered from the crash site in the French Alps.
European newspapers Paris Match and Bild have reported that the video, which Sky News has not seen, was discovered on a mobile phone found among the wreckage of flight 4U 9525.
Paris Match, which has not published the video, reported: "The scene was so chaotic that it was hard to identify people, but the sounds of the screaming passengers made it perfectly clear that they were aware of what was about to happen to them.
"One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages."
The newspaper added that metallic banging can be heard in the footage, before the screaming gets louder and the video ends.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
A lead investigator into the crash later called on anyone with footage of the disaster to hand it over to authorities.
Prosecutor Brice Robin said videos were not yet an official part of the probe, but that anyone with footage "must hand it over immediately to investigators".
It comes after Lufthansa revealed the co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing the Germanwings plane told officials at a training school he had gone through an "episode of severe depression".
Andreas Lubitz, 27, informed instructors in 2009 that he had to break off from his pilot training for several months because of his illness.
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Gallery: Tributes Laid Near Crash Site
A memorial, carved in French, German, Spanish and English, in memory of the victims of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash, in the small village of Le Vernet, French Alps
The chapel prepared for the families of the victims and the medico-legal tents for investigators at Seyne les Alpes near the crash site
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Investigators gathered near the scene
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After resuming training six years ago, he provided the school with medical documents which showed he had gone through a "previous episode of severe depression," Lufthansa said.
Dusseldorf state prosecutors said on Monday Lubitz had been treated for suicidal tendencies before getting his pilot's licence.
Lufthansa chief executive Carsten Spohr said it will take a "long time" to establish the events that led to the crash.
"We are learning more every day about the causes of the accident," he said in a statement near the crash site on Wednesday.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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"It will take a long, long time for all of us to understand how this could happen."
He refused to answer questions on what Lufthansa knew about Lubitz's mental health.
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday all 150 victims of the plane crash will be identified by the end of the week.
This contradicted an earlier report in Bild that said the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Video:Co-Pilot's Motives 'Not Relevant'
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Video:Airbus Video On Anti-Terror Doors
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
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China has called for both sides to compromise in nuclear talks between Iran and world powers, warning that all previous efforts will be wasted if a deadlock continues.
Negotiations have resumed in Lausanne, Switzerland, hours after midnight deadline passed without any definitive agreement being reached, although negotiators agreed to a one-day extension.
But after Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi left the meeting, a rare statement from his delegation said: "It is important to give political guidance to the negotiations ... it is important to narrow down the differences.
"If the negotiations are stuck, all previous efforts will be wasted.
"All parties must be prepared to meet each other half way to reach an agreement."
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Mr Wang was one of three foreign ministers to leave the negotiations in the hands of representatives, with Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and France's Laurent Fabius also departing.
The significance of their absence was not clear.
Iran's foreign minister said earlier he was hopeful Tehran and the six world powers - the US, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - could begin drafting a preliminary deal after the negotiations were extended.
Mohammad Javad Zarif described the late-night talks as "very good", saying: "We hope to start drafting the text on Wednesday."
Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said: "We have made some very significant progress over the last few days, but it has been slow going.
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"We decided to break last night. Some of the staff had been working through the previous night. We wanted people to be fresh as we started the last few issues that remain.
"We are now working on them this morning. I'm optimistic that we will make further progress this morning, but it does mean the Iranians being willing to meet us where there are issues that we still need to deal with.
"So fingers crossed and we hope to get there during the course of the day."
Western powers aim to stop Iran from having the capacity to develop a nuclear bomb, in exchange for easing international sanctions that are crippling its economy.
Stumbling blocks related to Iran's enrichment research and the speed of lifting the sanctions are threatening to scupper an agreement.
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The aim is to reach an understanding that could serve as the basis for a final accord to be reached by the end of June.
The talks, which have lasted nearly two years, have already been extended twice since an interim agreement was reached in November 2013.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who opposes the negotiations, said the agreement being put together in Lausanne sends the message "that Iran stands to gain by its aggression".
A gunman who smashed a window and unveiled a flag at the offices of Turkey's ruling party the day after a siege in which a prosecutor died has been arrested.
Turkey's Dogan news agency had earlier reported that two people had been seen entering the office of the AK Party carrying weapons.
Police sealed off the road around the office in an industrial suburb of Istanbul but later said just one man had been detained.
It came the day after prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz was taken hostage in revenge for a teenager's death during anti-government protests in 2014.
Two members of the banned Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) were killed when security forces went into the office where he was being held.
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The prosecutor, who was responsible for the investigation into the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, also died.
The arrest in Istanbul came on a day when a number of left wing activists from the DHKP-C were held in the southern Turkish city of Antalya.
Counter terrorism police carried out a series of early morning raids and took 22 suspected radicals into custody.
The Dogan news agency reported authorities had received a tip-off they were planning further attacks.
A lawyer for the suspects told Dogan that the claims were baseless and the group would release a statement later in the day.
The DHKP-C is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States and has carried out a string of attacks in Turkey in the past.
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Meanwhile, ceremonies to remember Mr Kiraz started on Wednesday morning.
A memorial to the prosecutor took place at the Istanbul Caglayan Palace of Justice where he worked and the hostage drama unfolded.
Hundreds of lawyers, prosecutors and staff stood in respect on every floor of the giant building - said to be the largest courthouse in Europe - and unfurled a giant Turkish flag from the top floor.
His funeral was due to take place later at the Eyup Sultan Mosque in Istanbul with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu due to attend, the official Anatolia news agency said.
No one has yet been arrested over the death of Berkin Elvan, who died in March last year after spending 269 days in a coma from injuries inflicted by police in anti-government protests in the summer of 2013.
Mr Kiraz's captors demanded he hand over the names of the suspects and force them to confess.
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Alps Crash Victims 'Identified By End Of Week'
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The violence of the crash has hampered the identification of victims
All 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps will be identified by the end of the week, according to French President Francois Hollande.
Speaking at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Mr Hollande said: "The French interior minister confirmed that by the end of the week at the latest it will be possible to identify all of the victims thanks to DNA samples."
This contradicts an earlier report in the German newspaper Bild that the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Colonel Francois Daoust said they may not be able to find all the victims
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
Even then, "we cannot promise that we will be able to identify all of the victims," Colonel Francois Daoust said.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
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Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook
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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook
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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook
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Investigators are currently working on the theory that the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane.
The voice recorder suggested he locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally put the Airbus A320 into a descent.
German prosecutors revealed on Monday that Lubitz had been treated in the past for suicidal tendencies, although no evidence has been found to prove he felt suicidal at the time of the crash.
Christoph Kumpa, a spokesman for Dusseldorf prosecutor's office, said he was known to have paid several visits to doctors in the days and months before and nothing of this nature was found to have been documented.
Video:Crash Site - Latest Search Video
He said: "There still is no evidence that the co-pilot told before that he'll do what we have to assume was done and we haven't found a letter or anything like that that contains a confession.
"Added to this, we have not found anything in the surrounding be it personal, or his family, or his professional surrounding, that is giving us any hints that enable us to say anything about his motivation.
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.
It has been reported he had also been receiving treatment for an unspecific vision problem which could have affected his ability to fly, although Mr Kumpa said nothing had been found to verify those claims.
Video:How The Co-Pilot Took Control
Investigators have so far been unable to find the aircraft's second black box, which would provide technical flight data of its final moments.
A road to improve access to the crash site has been built by investigators, who resumed their search on Tuesday.
Three trucks left the dropzone in Seyne-les-Alpes after a 48-hour road-building operation to ease access to the mountainside.
The vehicles now take 45 minutes to reach the base of the slope where debris is spread across some five acres (two hectares), while two helicopters fly overhead to check for pieces that might have been flung further.
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Alps Crash Victims 'Identified By End Of Week'
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The violence of the crash has hampered the identification of victims
All 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps will be identified by the end of the week, according to French President Francois Hollande.
Speaking at a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Mr Hollande said: "The French interior minister confirmed that by the end of the week at the latest it will be possible to identify all of the victims thanks to DNA samples."
This contradicts an earlier report in the German newspaper Bild that the relatives of the victims may have to wait months for their loved ones to be identified, with no guarantees they will all be found.
Colonel Francois Daoust said they may not be able to find all the victims
The head of the Criminal Research Institute at France's National Gendarmerie told the newspaper it would take forensic teams between two and four months to complete the DNA identification process.
Even then, "we cannot promise that we will be able to identify all of the victims," Colonel Francois Daoust said.
Video:New Details Of Co-Pilot's History
The violence with which the Airbus A320 crashed into the mountainside in the French Alps last week has severely hampered the identification of the remains of those on board.
Recovery teams scouring the crash site have said not a single body has been found intact.
Some 78 different DNA profiles have been isolated so far from around 400 body parts, although none have been directly linked to the victims.
Family members have been asked to provide forensic teams with DNA samples to help in the identification.
1/16
Gallery: The Victims Of The Germanwings Crash
American Emily Selke, a recent graduate, was on the plane with her mother Yvonne. Raymond Selke has described his wife and daughter as 'amazing people'. Pic: Facebook
Iranian sports journalist Hussein Javadi was on his way to Austria to cover a football match. A friend said he was 'a kind, loving, caring man'. Pic: Maysam Bizær/Hossein Javadi
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Argentinian Sebastian Greco was on board with his girlfriend. Pic: Facebook
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Argentinian Gabriela Maumus, 28, was the daughter of a firefighter. Pic: Facebook
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Spanish victim Carles Milla Masanas, 37. The businessman was on his way to a food industry fayre. Pic: Facebook
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Investigators are currently working on the theory that the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz, deliberately crashed the plane.
The voice recorder suggested he locked the pilot out of the cockpit and intentionally put the Airbus A320 into a descent.
German prosecutors revealed on Monday that Lubitz had been treated in the past for suicidal tendencies, although no evidence has been found to prove he felt suicidal at the time of the crash.
Christoph Kumpa, a spokesman for Dusseldorf prosecutor's office, said he was known to have paid several visits to doctors in the days and months before and nothing of this nature was found to have been documented.
Video:Crash Site - Latest Search Video
He said: "There still is no evidence that the co-pilot told before that he'll do what we have to assume was done and we haven't found a letter or anything like that that contains a confession.
"Added to this, we have not found anything in the surrounding be it personal, or his family, or his professional surrounding, that is giving us any hints that enable us to say anything about his motivation.
Lubitz had been given a sick note on the day of the crash, but the note was never submitted to Germanwings.
It has been reported he had also been receiving treatment for an unspecific vision problem which could have affected his ability to fly, although Mr Kumpa said nothing had been found to verify those claims.
Video:How The Co-Pilot Took Control
Investigators have so far been unable to find the aircraft's second black box, which would provide technical flight data of its final moments.
A road to improve access to the crash site has been built by investigators, who resumed their search on Tuesday.
Three trucks left the dropzone in Seyne-les-Alpes after a 48-hour road-building operation to ease access to the mountainside.
The vehicles now take 45 minutes to reach the base of the slope where debris is spread across some five acres (two hectares), while two helicopters fly overhead to check for pieces that might have been flung further.
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