A man is jailed for eight years for beating another man to death in Carluke after a row over a damaged sofa.

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Judge jails ‘sofa damage’ killer

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil hails his eight years in power, days before he steps down with approval ratings of more than 80%.

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Lula closes his Brazil presidency

A Manhattan peep show palace closed eight years ago is making a tiny, G-rated comeback in a visitors center.

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Peep Show Back in Times Sq., in a Tamer Guise

A former New Orleans, Louisiana, police officer who pleaded guilty to covering up police shootings of civilians on a Louisiana bridge in the days following Hurricane Katrina was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison, authorities said.

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Officer gets 8 years in bridge shooting

A 20-year-old Londonderry man is jailed for eight years for the manslaughter of pizza delivery man Emmet Shiels.

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Emmet Shiels killer is sentenced

For the past eight years, as a journalist, I have been deeply enmeshed in investigating and chronicling the winter 2004 unsolved vanishings of two young women. The two women, Maura Murray, who was 21-years old at the time, and Brianna Maitland, who was only 17-years old, both disappeared in rural sections of New Hampshire and Vermont respectively. Both women were attractive and had been driving at night when something still mysterious happened to each of them. read more

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Much Needed Justice for Victims of Crime

It has been eight years since Dick Armey left Congress, but he is once again a power in it.

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A Power Again in Congress, Years After He Left It

Fans caught up in trouble at Plymouth and Exeter’s first football derby in more than eight years blame the police’s “low-key” approach.

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Derby trouble police criticised

Voters in Ivory Coast wait for the result of the much-delayed presidential election, intended to reunite the country after eight years of division.

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Ivorians await crunch poll result

Canadian Omar Khadr, the youngest inmate at Guantanamo Bay, is sentenced to 40 years in jail, but will only serve eight years under a plea deal.

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Youngest Guantanamo inmate jailed

Over the last eight years, some or all of Raymond W. Kelly’s expenses at the Harvard Club, including the yearly dues, have been paid by the New York City Police Foundation.

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Police Leader Didn’t Report Help With Harvard Club Dues

The driver of an illegal minicab is jailed for eight years for raping a student he picked up in central London.

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Minicab driver jailed over rape

Safety fears were raised about a road junction eight years before a businessman died there in a crash with a police car, an inquest hears.

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Police car crash death ‘accident’

The Austrian woman who was held captive for more than eight years in the cellar of a suburban house has been talking about her efforts to rebuild her relationship with her family.

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Kampusch on owning her former jail ‘home’

No one has come forward to identify the young woman whose body was found more than eight years ago behind a strip mall in Tempe, Arizona.

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Teen died 8 years ago. Who was she?