Dundee Sheriff Court heard that prosecutors allege he rigged up a "man-made assembly in his house suspended from the ceiling by thin ropes, with a car battery and cans of petrol nearby".

BBC: Dudhope Court

After weeks of debate, the state House restored the death penalty by a razor-thin margin: two votes.

ECONOMIST: The death penalty

The centre-left won the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, with a wafer-thin margin of the nationwide vote.

BBC: Stalemate in 'ungovernable' Italy after elections

Yet Fifa's patience with Kenyan football is considerably thin and president Sepp Blatter has advised the nation to put its house in order or risk a ban.

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