World News Update, what you need to know

An inquest jury has largely vindicated London police over a fatal shooting that set off a wave of rioting across England, finding that officers acted lawfully when they shot 29-year-old Mark Duggan through the chest.

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JUBA - South Sudan's government and rebels are locked in fierce battles across the country, as peace talks taking place in neighbouring Ethiopia appear to flounder.

LONDON - A man has been found guilty of defacing an Australian artist's portrait of the Queen with purple paint while it was hanging in Westminster Abbey.

AUCKLAND - A shipwreck found on New Zealand's west coast has been radiocarbon dated to around 1705 AD - some years after Tasman first put New Zealand on the map in 1642, but decades before Cook landed in 1769, research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows.

DAMASCUS - Syrian rebels have overrun the Aleppo headquarters of rival anti-government group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, amid claims ISIL had massacred prisoners there in cold blood.

CAIRO - An Egyptian court has adjourned the murder trial of deposed president Mohamed Morsi to February 1, citing "weather conditions" that prevented the former leader's transport to court from his prison.

LONDON - British police and US military officials are investigating after a US air force helicopter crashed in eastern England, killing all four crew onboard.

ROME - Ancient Romans dined on giraffes, pink flamingos and exotic spices from as far away as Indonesia, according to a new scientific study of excavations in Pompeii.