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The Brazilian judge presiding over criminal proceedings against charismatic entrepreneur Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest man, has been spotted driving a Porsche belonging to the fallen tycoon that had been seized by the court. Flavio Roberto de Souza, who is overseeing Batista’s trial for insider trading, was seen driving the white Porsche Cayenne by reporters for Estado de S.Paulo’s news agency after a tip-off from Batista’s lawyer. [Daily Telegraph]
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The 10 best jobs in the UK – 

1 – Marketing Manager – Score: 4.5
Number of Job Openings: 2,965
Average Base Salary: £46,561
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.6

2- Finance Manager – Score: 4.4
Number of Job Openings: 4,357
Average Base Salary: £52,081
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.2

3 – Mechanical Engineer – Score: 4.4
Number of Job Openings: 5,964
Average Base Salary: £34,799
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.5

4 – Sales Manager – Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 3,869
Average Base Salary: £45,613
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3

5 – Business Analyst – Score: 4.3
Number of Job Openings: 3,437
Average Base Salary: £46,047
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3

6 – IT Manager – Score: 4.2
Number of Job Openings: 3,708
Average Base Salary: £57,818
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.0

7 – Civil Engineer – Score: 4.2
Number of Job Openings: 4,137
Average Base Salary: £36,142
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.3

8 – Product Manager – Score: 4.2
Number of Job Openings: 1,415
Average Base Salary: £52,478
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.4

9 – Lawyer – Score: 4.2
Number of Job Openings: 925
Average Base Salary: £55,020
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.5

10 – Software Engineer – Score: 4.2
Number of Job Openings: 14,846
Average Base Salary: £40,400
Career Opportunities Rating: 3.0

List by jobs website Glassdoor, and was drawn up using three factors – average annual base salary, the number of job openings and career opportunities, which takes into account chances of promotion. All of the jobs listed were given a ranking out of 5.

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• Military intervention against ISIL
  • John Key, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, announces plans to deploy up to 143 New Zealand Defence Forcepersonnel to Iraq on a training mission to last no more than two years. (New Zealand Herald)
  • A wave of bombings in Baghdad kills at least 37 people. (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
  • The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates that ISIL has kidnapped at least 150 people in a series of raids on February 23 from Assyrian Christian villages in Syria. (Reuters)
• The Congolese Army launches an offensive against FDLR rebels in South Kivu. (AP via ABC News)
• War in Donbass
  • Up to 75 British Armed Forces personnel will be sent as military advisors to the Ukrainian army. (PA via Wandwsorth Guardian)
• Boko Haram
  • Chadian soldiers kill over 200 Boko Haram fighters in a clash near the town of Garambu, close to Nigeria‘s border with Cameroon. One Chad Army soldier was killed and nine wounded. (Reuters)
  • Suicide bombers target two crowded bus stations in Potiskum and Kano in northern Nigeria, killing at least 27 people in nearly daily violence in the embattled region. There is no claim of responsibility for either blast, but both bore the hallmarks of militant group Boko Haram. (Voice of America)

Business and economy

• Greece submits a list of eleven reforms it will proceed with to secure a loan extension. (BBC)
• Barack Obama, the President of the United States, vetoes a bill approving the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline between Canadian oil sands and refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (Los Angeles Times)

Disasters and accidents

• 2015 Oxnard train derailment
  • A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California, following a collision with a truck. More than 30 have been injured with four people in critical condition. (Los Angeles Times) (MSN), (Los Angeles Times)

International relations

• Dr Rajendra Pachauri resigns as head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change due to involvement in asexting scandal. (The Times via The Australian)

Law and crime

• The President of Indonesia Joko Widodo says the execution of 11 convicts from overseas, most on drug charges, will not be delayed. A court has rejected the appeals of Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, two Australians on death row. (Reuters), (Voice of America)
• Former Prime Minister of Egypt Ahmed Nazif and former Interior Minister Habib el-Adly are cleared of graft charges in a retrial. (Al-Jazeera)
• A Czech gunman opens fire at a restaurant in Uherský Brod, killing at least eight people. (AP)
• The British Parliament‘s House of Lords gives final approval to a bill that earlier in February had been approved in theHouse of Commons, refusing to block the plan by a majority of 232, that would allow, through a modified form of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the creation of three-person babies, to treat certain mitochondrial disorders (mitochondria are parts of cells that convert nutrients into useful cellular energy to fuel vital processes), by using a very small segment of mitochondrial DNA from another woman to replace the mother’s defective DNA; the U.K. is the first to authorize the still ethically controversial procedure. (MSN)
• Eddie Ray Routh is found guilty of the murder in 2013 of famed United States Navy SEALs‘ sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle’s friend Chad Littlefield in Texas. Routh is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. (BBC), (AP)

Politics and elections

• Chicago aldermanic elections, 2015
  • Voters in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, go to the polls to elect a Mayor and 50 aldermen. In the mayoral election, there will be a runoff between incumbent Rahm Emanuel and Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia. (Chicago Tribune), (AP)
• Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)
  • Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi withdraws his resignation as President of Yemen after escaping from the custody of theHouthis. (Al-Arabiyah)
• Former U.K. Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind steps down as chair of a parliamentary intelligence committee and said he won’t run for re-election as a Conservative member of parliament after becoming embroiled in an embarrassing cash-for-access sting. (Guardian)
• US Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald admits that he lied when he claimed he served in the US Special Forces. (AP)

Sports

• In rugby league, the Australian-based National Rugby League takes over control of the Gold Coast Titans following five current players being charged with supplying cocaine. (ABC News Australia)

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