A Brighton man was convicted of murder today in the brutal 2005 stabbing death of a Brookline cabbie in what prosecutors said was a robbery gone bad.

Suffolk jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before delivering guilty verdicts against Cleveland Martin, 22, who they also convicted of armed robbery.

Judge Regina Quinlan sentenced Martin, an admitted crack cocaine dealer, to the mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

Source: http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1139509&srvc=news&position=3

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Time magazine has given its annual Person of the Year award to US President-elect Barack Obama.

Mr Obama was awarded the title "for having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour," said the US-based magazine.

It said he showed "the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off".

Recent winners have included Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the American soldier and the online public.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7787887.stm

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The ruins of an entire city have been discovered in northern Peru, researchers say.

Archaeologists say the find could provide the missing link between the ancient cultures of the Wari people and the earlier Moche civilisation.

The site, near the Pacific coastal city of Chiclayo, probably dates to the Wari culture which ruled the Andes of modern Peru between the 7th and 12th Century.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7787053.stm