He had been told that morning by the boy's mother, Lazette Cherry, that he had confessed to her that he had inappropriately touched his three-year-old half-sister a few months previously.

因为这天早上男孩的母亲拉泽特·切丽(Lazette Cherry)打电话告诉他，男孩向她承认，在几个月前以不正当的方式“动”了同母异父的3岁半的妹妹。

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Apple sold over four and a half million iPads in the first three months of this year.

今年第一季度，苹果售出了超过450万台iPad。

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A friend of mine, who asked not be named because he was still looking for a job, quit his a year ago after three and a half months.

我的一个朋友，在这里应要求不公开他的名字的了，因为他仍在找工作，一年前他辞去了干了三个月半的工作。

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But it's also troubling given Nokia's promise to launch a MeeGo device in 2010 -- with just three and a half months left in the year (and Nokia being notorious for announcing products long before shipping), we still don't have a MeeGo smartphone announcement.

ENGADGET: Nokia's VP of Design has a plan to crack the US market with MeeGo, and we're all accomplices

Mohammed Farooq, of Clifton Close, Oldham, was jailed for three years, 22-year-old Irfan Khalil, of Park Road, Oldham, to three-and-a-half years and a 17-year-old youth to nine months in detention followed by nine months on licence.

BBC: Irfan Khalil and Mohammed Farooq

This was the day it was announced that the UK economy had shrunk by 0.3% in the last three months of 2012, yet the FTSE 100 closed at a four-and-a-half-year high, having had the best start to the year in two decades.

BBC: Davos 2013: A 'sigh of relief' at the World Economic Forum