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Ronaldo ‘gives football agent Mendes Greek island’ –
The multi-millionaire Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo has given his agent Jorge Mendes a Greek island as a wedding present, media reports say. The island has not been named but the price tag could run into the millions, reports say. Spain’s Mundo Deportivo website says Ronaldo knows the Greek islands well from holidays. Mr Mendes married his partner Sandra in Portugal on Sunday. Sir Alex Ferguson was among the celebrities there. [BBC]
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Trader jailed for 14 years over Libor rate-rigging –
Former City trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty at a London court of rigging global Libor interest rates. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud. The 35-year old is the first individual to face a jury trial for manipulating the rate, which is used as a benchmark for trillions of pounds of global borrowing and lending. Many of the world’s leading banks have paid heavy financial penalties for tampering with the key benchmark. The jury found Hayes guilty on all eight charges of conspiracy to defraud. Hayes, a former star trader originally from Fleet in Hampshire, rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while working in Tokyo for UBS, then Citigroup, from 2006 until 2010. [BBC]

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Armed conflicts and attacks

• Syrian civil war
  • At least 31 people are dead and dozens injured after a Syrian fighter jet crashes into a marketplace in the town of Ariha. (TC via AP)(ABC)(YNET News)

Business and economy

• British bank HSBC agrees to sell its Brazilian banking business to Banco Bradesco for $5.2 billion. (AFP via HSBC)
• Nokia sells its mapping application Here to German car makers BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz for 2.8 billion euros. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
• The Athens Stock Exchange reopens after more than a month with share values falling by 22 percent in early trading. (AP)

Disasters and accidents

• Flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains has caused over 100 deaths in India over the past week with tens of thousands of people taking shelter in refugee camps. (BBC)
• Twenty people are injured when two cranes overturn whilst installing part of the Julianabrug at Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. (NL Times)
• At least twelve people are killed with many feared trapped in the rubble as a fifty year old building collapses in the Indian city of Thane after days of heavy rain. (NDTV), (AP)

Law and crime

• 2012 Aurora shooting
  • In an unanimous decision, the jury ruled that James Eagan Holmes, convicted for the shooting, is still eligible for the death penalty. (CNN International)

Sports

• 2015 World Aquatics Championships
  • Katie Ledecky of the United States breaks her own world record for the 1,500 metres (4,900 feet) freestyle clocking 15:27.71 in the final inKazan, Russia. (Sportsmole)

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