A SETTLEMENT was reached yesterday which marked a victory for Beatle widow Yoko Ono over a former employee over his use of hundreds of private family photos.

Yoko Ono has won her lawsuit to stop a former assistant of John Lennon from further profiting from the late Beatle.

Four members of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida organisation were being sentenced today just a few hundred yards from the World Trade Centre for their part in terrorist attacks in 1998.

A follower of Osama bin Laden received life in prison without parole for the deadly bombing of the US Embassy in Kenya after a New York jury was deadlocked amid concerns that imposing a death penalty would create a martyr.