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1.Wall Street investor¹ Bernard Madoff has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme. The victims who lost millions of dollars urged a stiff sentence. The 71-year-old financier says he will live with pain and torment² for the rest of his life.

2.A group of white firefighters won their reverse discrimination case against New Haven³, Connecticut. The Supreme⁴ Court says they were unfairly denied promotions⁵ because of their race. The city said it was only trying to avoid a lawsuit⁶ for minorities.

3.Michael Jackson's mother has been given temporary guardianship⁷ of the singer's three children. Court documents say she doesn't know where to find the mother of Jackson's two oldest children. She and the children are maintaining a low profile at the Jackson family home in California.

4.The Honduran army ousted⁸ the country's democratically elected president and Congress named a successor.  Latin-America's leaders are holding emergency talks in Nicaragua, hoping to restore Manuel Zelaya to power.