61.   The court handed down the mandatory life sentence for the murder conviction and a six-year term for injuring the bodyguard.

62.   The court handed down the sentence after a four-month trail.

63.   The court in Shenzhen handed down the sentence Thursday.

64.   The company sought leave to appeal in the High Court, and the rehiring order has been frozen until the court hands down its ruling on Monday.

65.   The court also handed Microsoft a smaller victory by reversing one finding by Jackson that its packaging of its Web browser and operating system violated antitrust law.

66.   The court handed down suspended sentences for four other tax collectors, one of them a woman, Lao Dong reported.

67.   The court also handed Dumas a two-year suspended sentence.

68.   The court could have handed down the death penalty.

69.   The court handed out three-month suspended sentences and fines and barred the two from running for public office for two years.

70.   The court also handed Berlusconi another setback by rejecting a referendum question to wipe out a proportional voting system that helps small parties gain footholds in parliament.