Prince Harry has choked up in court concluding an eight-hour testimony in his lawsuit against a major British newspaper publisher, admitting he would feel an "injustice" if his claims of phone hacking were dismissed by the judge.

Asked by his lawyer how the experience of giving evidence had been, the Duke of Sussex became emotional and, after a long pause, said "it is a lot".

"For my whole life, the press misled me, covered up the wrongdoing, and sitting here in court knowing that the (respondents have) the evidence in front of them and for (opposition lawyer) Mr Green to suggest I'm speculating — I'm not sure what to say about that," the duke said.

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The flash of emotion came at the end of testimony — the first by a senior royal since 1891 — that stretched over two days and touched on extensive coverage of Harry's childhood, teenage years and early 20s.

The duke is suing Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), accusing its titles of phone hacking and using other illicit means to gather information about his life between 1996 and 2009.

Green, the barrister for MGN, pressed Harry on Tuesday on the specifics of his phone hacking allegations, saying there is "not a single item of call data at any time" between Harry's phone and any Mirror Group journalist.

"If the court were to find no evidence of phone hacking, would he be relieved or disappointed?" Green challenged the duke during a tense exchange towards the end of the two-day cross-examination.

"That would be speculating – I am not sure if I would be relieved or disappointed," Harry responded.

The duke told the court he believes undoubtedly that phone hacking was at an "industrial scale" across "at least three papers" so he added that it would be an "injustice" if his claim was not successful.

"You want to have been phone hacked," Green asked, to which the duke replied: "No one would want to be phone hacked."

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Harry at times appeared nervous and uncomfortable during the cross-examination but grew in confidence as the session wore on, clashing at times with Green and volleying back questions of his own towards the lawyer.

Overall, the prince alleges that about 140 articles published in titles belonging to Mirror Group contained information gathered using unlawful methods.

Thirty-three of those articles were considered at the trial and discussed in detail by Green and the prince.

On Tuesday, Harry told the court that "every single article has caused me distress".

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He added on Wednesday that an article headlined "Hooray Harry's dumped", which reported the ending of his relationship with Chelsy Davy, was "hurtful".

The 2007 story "does seem to suggest that people are celebrating" the end of the relationship, Harry said, adding it "is a little bit mean".

He added that on another evening, when he went for dinner with the late TV presenter Caroline Flack, he "was so shocked — and livid" to find that two photographers from agency IKON Pictures were already there hiding under a car, "waiting for us to arrive".

Harry said Flack was "always of great interest to the tabloids, she was often hounded by them".

The former presenter of Love Island died by suicide in 2020 while awaiting trial for alleged assault, in a case that had attracted intense media interest.

After a brief questioning from his own lawyer, David Sherborne, Harry's stretch in the witness box came to an end on Wednesday afternoon. Sherborne then began quizzing former Daily Mirror royal editor Jane Kerr, the author of some of the stories considered.

The courtroom saga has been unprecedented in modern times; a senior royal has not given evidence in court since Harry's great-great-great grandfather, the future King Edward VII, took the stand over a game of baccarat that went awry in the late 19th century.

But Harry has been unapologetic in his efforts to force reform in Britain's tabloid media, which he has long insisted subjected him to intrusion and wrecked many of his personal relationships.

The trial started on May 10, and is expected to last seven weeks.

MGN is contesting most of the allegations, arguing in its court filings that some claims have been brought too late and that in all four cases there is insufficient evidence of phone hacking.

In court documents published last month, the publisher did apologise for one instance of unlawful information gathering nearly 20 years ago.

That incident involved a private investigator, who was paid £75 ($140) in 2004 by the Sunday People, a tabloid owned by the same group, to gather information about the Duke of Sussex while at a London nightclub.

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A Florida woman accused of fatally shooting her neighbour last week in the violent culmination of what the sheriff described as a two-and-a-half-year feud has been arrested.

Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, who is white, was arrested on charges of manslaughter with a firearm, culpable negligence, battery and two counts of assault in the death of Ajike Owens, a Black mother of four, Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said in a statement overnight.

Authorities came under pressure on Tuesday to arrest and charge the woman who fired through her front her door and killed Owens in a case that has put Florida's divisive stand your ground law back into the spotlight.

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In a video posted on Facebook late on Tuesday night, the sheriff said this was not a stand your ground case but "simply a killing".

"Now many of you were struggling to understand why there was not an immediate arrest," the sheriff said. "The laws here in the state of Florida are clear. Now I may not like them. I may not agree with them. But however, those laws I will follow."

The video shared by the sheriff's office shows two detectives and a deputy leading down a hallway with her hands behind her back.

Jail records show she was booked, but did not list a lawyer who could speak on her behalf. It wasn't immediately clear when she would make her first court appearance.

Deputies responding to a trespassing call Friday night found Owens with gunshot wounds.

The neighbourhood of single-story duplexes and quadruplexes is in the rolling hills outside of Ocala. The area is known for its thoroughbred horse farms, which surround the working-class neighbourhood.

Lorincz told investigators that she acted in self-defence, and that Owens, 35, had been trying to break down her door before she fired the gun, the sheriff said. She also told them that Owens had come after her in the past, and had previously attacked her.

Sheriff Woods said the investigation, which included eyewitness statements, established that Lorincz's actions were not justifiable under Florida law.

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On Tuesday, about three dozen protesters, most of them Black, gathered outside the Marion County Judicial Center, demanding the shooter's arrest. The chief prosecutor, State Attorney William Gladson, met with the protesters and urged patience while the investigation continues.

"If we are going to make a case we need as much time and as much evidence as possible," Gladson said. "I don't want to compromise any criminal investigation."

Earlier the sheriff had said that because of the stand your ground law he couldn't make an arrest unless he could prove the shooter did not act in self-defence.

In the neighbourhood a stuffed teddy bear and bouquets marked the area near where Owens was shot. Nearby, children were riding bikes and scooters, and playing basketball.

Some protesters gathered downtown, chanting "No justice, no peace" and "AJ AJ AJ" using Owens' nickname, on Tuesday afternoon.

The sheriff said Owens was shot moments after going to Lorincz's apartment after she yelled had at Owens' children as they played in a grassy area outside nearby. He also said Lorincz had thrown a pair of skates that hit one of the children.

Before the confrontation, Lorincz had been yelling racial slurs at the children, according to a statement from civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing Owens' family. He also represented Trayvon Martin's family in 2012, when the Black teenager was killed in a case that drew worldwide attention to the state's stand your ground law.

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The sheriff's office hasn't confirmed there were slurs uttered or said whether race was a factor in the shooting.

In a statement late Tuesday, Crump said while Owens' family is "relieved" that an arrest has been made, they remain concerned it has taken this long because "archaic laws like Stand Your Ground exist"

Lauren Smith, 40, lives across the street from where the shooting happened. She was on her porch that day and saw one of Owens' young sons pacing, and yelling, "They shot my mama, they shot my mama."

She ran toward the house, and started chest compressions until a rescue crew arrived. She said there wasn't an altercation and that Owens didn't have a weapon.

"She was angry all the time that the children were playing out there," Smith said. "She would say nasty things to them. Just nasty." Smith, who is white, described the neighbourhood is family friendly.

The sheriff said that since January 2021, deputies responded at least a half-dozen calls in connection with what police described as feuding between Owens and Lorincz.

"There was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth," the sheriff said Lorincz told investigators. "Whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made. And then at that moment is when Ms. Owens was shot through the door."

"I'm absolutely heartbroken," Angela Ferrell-Zabala, executive director of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, told The Associated Press. She described the fatal shooting as "so senseless."

"We've seen this again and again across this country," she said, adding that "it's really because of lax gun laws and a culture of shoot first."

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Ferrell-Zabala said stand your ground cases are deemed justifiable five times more frequently when a white shooter kills a Black victim.

In 2017, Florida lawmakers shifted the burden of proof from a person claiming self-defence to prosecutors. Before the change in law, prosecutors could charge someone with a shooting, and then defence attorneys would have to present an affirmative defence for why their client shouldn't be convicted. Now authorities must rule out self-defence before bringing charges.

Stand your ground and "castle doctrine" cases — which allow residents to defend themselves either by law or court precedent when threatened — have sparked outrage amid a spate of shootings across the country.

In April, 84-year-old Andrew Lester, a white man, shot and injured 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager who rang his doorbell in Kansas City. Yarl mistakenly went to the wrong house to pick up his younger siblings. Lester faces criminal charges. At trial, he may argue that he thought someone was trying to break into his house.

Missouri and Florida are among about 30 states that have stand your ground laws.

The most well-known examples of the stand your ground argument came up in the trial of George Zimmerman, who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in 2012.

At a vigil Monday in Ocala, Owens' mother, Pamela Dias, said that she was seeking justice for her daughter and her grandchildren.

"My daughter, my grandchildren's mother, was shot and killed with her 9-year-old son standing next to her," Dias said. "She had no weapon. She posed no imminent threat to anyone."

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Pope Francis has been admitted to hospital for surgery on his intestine, two years after he had 33 centimetres of his colon removed because of inflammation and narrowing of the large intestine.

The Vatican said Francis, 86, would be put under general anesthesia and would be hospitalised for several days.

The pope was undergoing what the Vatican said was a "laparotomy and abdominal wall plastic surgery with prosthesis" to treat a "recurrent, painful and worsening" constriction of the intestine.

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A laparotomy is open abdominal surgery. It can help a surgeon both diagnose and treat issues.

"The stay at the health facility will last several days to allow for the normal post-operative course and full functional recovery," the statement said.

In July 2021, Francis spent 10 days at Gemelli to remove 33 centimetres of his large intestine.

He had suffered what the Vatican said was a severe inflammation and narrowing of the colon.

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In an interview with The Associated Press in January, Francis said the diverticulosis, or bulges in his intestinal wall, that prompted the 2021 surgery, had returned.

Francis went to the Gemelli on Tuesday for what the Vatican said were medical tests.

It revealed no details at the time.

Francis, 86, had appeared in good form Wednesday morning at his audience in St. Peter's Square, zipping around the square in his popemobile greeting the faithful.

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He also had two meetings Wednesday morning beforehand, the Vatican said.

The Argentine pope had part of one lung removed when he was a young man.

He also suffers from sciatica nerve pain and has been using a wheelchair and walker for more than a year because of strained ligaments in his knee.

Francis has had a packed schedule of late, with multiple audiences each day.

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The Vatican recently confirmed a travel-filled August, when the Holy See and Italy are usually on vacation, with a four-day visit to Portugal the first week of August and a similarly long trip to Mongolia starting August 31.

In a sign that the trips were very much on, the Vatican on Tuesday released the planned itinerary for Francis' visit to Portugal for World Youth Day events from August 2 to 6.

The itinerary confirms a typically busy schedule that includes all the protocol meetings of an official state visit plus multiple events with young people and a day trip to the Marian shrine at Fatima.

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A woman who claimed she could not remember stabbing her lover a week after discovering he had been cheating has been found guilty of his murder.

Jenny Niguidula took a kitchen knife and stabbed Rhonie Apostol in their Sydney home on November 17, 2019, after the pair furiously argued outside the city's international airport a week earlier.

On learning that the 53-year-old had cheated on her with a nurse in Manila on November 10, Niguidula punched him in the head outside the airport after spending hours crying in the bathroom.

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A week later he was found stabbed and bleeding in the bathroom of their South Wentworthville home.

Attempts at resuscitation were unsuccessful.

At the time, Niguidula herself was having an affair with Apostol after she married his brother-in-law Jonathan Olivares.

When police were called after the 53-year-old's death, Niguidula said his injuries were caused by his "stupidity" including by having an electric fan he was installing fall on his head.

She told police that her relationship with Apostol had been on the mend prior to his death and that she was having a happy time with him, going on the "perfect" date and having the best sex of her life.

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She pleaded guilty to manslaughter but denied she murdered her jilted lover.

A partial defence of substantial impairment, in which she claimed she had a mental health condition so severe she could not control her actions, was rejected by the jury.

Psychological evidence filed with the court showed a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

The matter will next come before Justice Hament Dhanji on June 9.

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A 36-year-old cold case is nearing its long-overdue conclusion after a jury returned a guilty verdict for murder at a well-known gay beat in Sydney's east.

Stanley Bruce Early, 77, fatally bashed Raymond Keam in a park at night in 1987.

A NSW Supreme Court jury returned its guilty verdict on Wednesday after hearing that Early had attacked the 43-year-old martial arts expert in Randwick's Alison Park suspecting he was homosexual.

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A post-mortem examination revealed he died from severe head injuries and a 1988 inquest found Keam died after being struck by a person or persons unknown.

Alison Park had a reputation for being a gay beat, crown prosecutor Ken McKay SC told the jury as the trial began.

The verdict comes despite a wholly circumstantial case being brought against Early with no witnesses seeing he had any contact with Keam.

In June 2021 a $1 million reward was offered for information about the murder.

Early was arrested at a home in Clayton, Victoria two months later and was extradited to NSW where he remained for the trial.

Keam's hitherto unsolved death was one of 88 killings between 1976 and 2000 recently reviewed by police probing potential gay-hate violence and allegations of prior inaction.

He identified as heterosexual, was divorced from one woman and in a de facto relationship with another, having a child with each.

The verdict comes despite a wholly circumstantial case being brought against Early with no witnesses seeing he had any contact with Keam.

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A mother has broken down in court as she confronted the man who murdered her daughter and dumped her body in a wheelie bin.

Joon Seong Tan, 38, was last week found guilty by a jury of killing Ju 'Kelly' Zhang in her Epping home in Melbourne's north on February 2, 2021.

Tan had believed Zhang, his girlfriend of only one month, was cheating on him with another man so he killed her while her eight-year-old son was in another room.

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He then cleaned up and moved Zhang's body first to a laundry cupboard and then a wheelie bin.

Tan drove the bin to Heidelberg West where he placed it with other bins for collection.

The following morning, after driving Zhang's son to school, he returned and watched the garbage truck empty the bin, before going back to Zhang's home where he reported her missing.

It took police four months to find Zhang's body at a Wollert landfill site.

She had suffered at least one stab wound to her heart.

During a pre-sentence hearing on Wednesday, Zhang's mother Renqun Li told the Supreme Court her daughter was a studious woman who should have had a bright future ahead of her.

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When they found out their daughter was missing, Li and her husband Xiaoyou Zhang dropped everything in China, using donations from friends to get to Melbourne.

For months, they believed she had been kidnapped and they would see their daughter alive again but they never did.

"We often wonder why God is so cruel, why he let us lose our only child when we're entering elderly age," she told the court through a Mandarin interpreter.

Zhang's young son Jack still calls out for his mother, having persistent nightmares.

In his victim impact statement, the now-10-year-old told the court he felt alone and afraid without her.

Li called on Justice Mandy Fox to hand down a severe punishment to Tan, noting their only child was killed for his own selfish means.

"We hope in the end justice will prevail over evil and justice will be given to our family," she said.

Li pointed at Tan and yelled "you bastard" in Mandarin as she finished reading her victim impact statement.

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She then broke down into heavy sobs and had to leave the court room before two workers from the Wollert tip read their statements.

Harry Taylor, the site's landfill manager, described feeling both elated and depressed when he lifted Zhang's small body from the mud-soaked garbage.

The tip's risk manager Christopher Smith choked back tears, saying his team felt grief for a woman they never met.

"(Tan) could have saved so many from unnecessary pain and anguish," he said.

Tan's barrister Greg Hughan said his client was moved by the emotional statements and he now admitted he murdered Zhang.

The 38-year-old claims Zhang had a knife by her bed and she grabbed it first while they were having an argument about their children, the barrister said.

Hughan submitted the admission showed Tan had accepted responsibility for his crimes and he would not lodge an appeal on his conviction.

"He doesn't want to perpetuate the grief," the barrister said.

But Justice Fox said she would not accept Tan's version of events, saying his admission did not demonstrate evidence of remorse.

Tan will be sentenced at a later date.

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