Major General
Hisham Ikhtiyar, the head of Syrian national security, dies of wounds he received from a
bombing in the capital
Damascus on July 18.
(BBC)
David Burgess, already serving life imprisonment on two counts of murder, is given a fresh life sentence after being convicted of the 1966 murder of Yolande Waddington, a nanny from
Berkshire, England.
(BBC)