A prosecutor has told jurors that George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin “because he wanted to,” not because he had to, while the neighbourhood watch volunteer’s attorney said the deadly shooting of the Miami-area teen was carried out in self-defence.

Thomas Becket

KINGFISHER Plc, Europe’s largest home-improvement retailer, reported a smaller drop in sales at its B&Q shops than analysts had anticipated and said it expects revenue to improve in the year’s final quarter.

Bob Dylan, the unofficial poet laureate of the rock ’n’ roll generation, has now been officially placed alongside such literary greats as Philip Roth and Adrienne Rich, not to mention biographies of Shakespeare and Willem de Kooning.