An American court has convicted a former student for using a webcam to (spy) on his gay roommate's love life and sharing the images with fellow students. Days later in September 2010, the roommate Tyler Clementi killed himself. Twenty-year-old Dharun Ravi will be (sentenced) in May and could face up to 10 years in prison. From New York, Laura Trevelyan reports.
Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge just days after his roommate at Rutgers University, Dharun Ravi, set up a webcam and watched him kissing another man. Ravi tweeted about what he'd seen and encouraged others to watch. Ravi has now been found guilty of (invasion of privacy), bias intimidation and tampering with evidence and a witness. The verdict was mixed. The jury found that Ravi did not intend to (intimidate) Mr Clementi the first night he turned on the webcam, but the jury concluded Mr. Clementi had reason to believe he was (targeted) because he was gay.
An inquest in Zimbabwe into the death of the former head of the army, General Solomon Mujuru, has found that he died from (inhaling smoke) and that there's no evidence to show how the fire was started. A lawyer for the Mujuru family told the BBC that doubts remained. General Mujuru died in a house fire last year in circumstances correspondents describe as (suspicious).
East Timor will vote shortly for a new president a decade after the Southeast Asian nation celebrated its (independence) from Indonesian rule. Despite having secured substantial oil wealth at independence, East Timor is still one of the poorest and (least developed) nations in Asia.
The American actor George Clooney has been released on bail after being arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington. He was taking part in a (protest) against the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Mr. Clooney and other demonstrators were arrested after they defied a police order to leave the grounds of the embassy.
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