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A FEMALE Muslim juror has been arrested in Britain after allegedly listening to an MP3 player under her hijab headscarf during a murder trial, police said overnight. The woman in her early 20s was spotted by a fellow juror listening to music as she was meant to be helping try the case of a pensioner accused of bludgeoning his wife to death after 50 years of marriage. She could now be charged with contempt of court and, if convicted, may be punished with an indefinite jail sentence and an unlimited fine. Details emerged after the defendant was convicted and Judge...

A TEENAGER who burnt an Australian flag taken from an RSL club during Sydney's racial unrest will come face to face with club members as part of his punishment. The 17-year-old pleaded guilty to removing the flag from the Brighton-Le-Sands RSL club and burning it in a reprisal attack following the Cronulla riot on December 11 last year. In Bidura Children's Court today, the teenager from Hurstville, who cannot be named, was ordered into youth conferencing with the club. He is expected to meet with diggers to discuss how the crime affected them and what the flag means to war...

ZACARIAS Moussaoui boasted that he had a "beautiful terrorist mind," as a renowned psychologist told a court in Virginia that the al-Qaeda plotter was a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from delusions. Moussaoui shouted out "beautiful terrorist mind," and was led from the courtroom for morning break, as the death penalty phase of the trial for his role in the September 11 terror attacks continued. The outburst apparently was a reference to remarks made on the witness stand by psychologist Xavier Amador, who cited the case of mathematician John Nash, a well-known schizophrenic whose life story was made into the Oscar-winning movie...

A MAN who helped burn an Australian flag after Sydney's Cronulla race riots has been sentenced to three months in jail. Hadi Khawaja, 24, of Peakhurst, yesterday pleaded guilty to charges of malicious damage and entering enclosed property with intent to commit a serious offence during public unrest. Khawaja, who has been an Australian citizen since 1986, admitted damaging an Australian flag at the Brighton-le-Sands RSL on the evening of December 11 as retaliatory violence spread through Sydney suburbs. His teenage co-accused, who cannot be named, is alleged to have climbed the flagpole and thrown the flag down to Khawaja...