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SAN FRANCISCO: Google won a major victory Wednesday as jurors sided with the Internet giant in a high-stakes court battle over patents with business software titan Oracle.

In a unanimous decision, 10 jurors agreed that Oracle had failed to prove its claims that Google infringed on Java software patents in Android operating software for smartphones and tablet computers.

LOS ANGELES: Former US first lady Nancy Reagan is "slowly" recovering from a fall a few weeks ago which left her with fractured ribs, her spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The 90-year-old widow of president Ronald Reagan canceled her attendance at an event at the Reagan Library in California on Tuesday evening because doctors her advised her against it, said spokeswoman Joanne Drake.

"Weeks ago Mrs. Reagan took a fall at home and fractured a number of ribs," she told AFP.

SAN FRANCISCO: Two days of court-directed peace talks between the chiefs of iPhone-maker Apple and smartphone giant Samsung ended with no sign of a truce in the legal battle headed for court in Silicon Valley.

Apple boss Tim Cook and Samsung chief Choi Gee-Sung met in San Francisco for nine hours on Monday and again for seven hours on Tuesday after a judge asked the bosses to personally try to resolve the case and avoid trial.

CHICAGO: Chicago lost a modern-day "untouchable" Wednesday as Patrick Fitzgerald — a feared US prosecutor who has locked up terrorists, mobsters and two governors — announced his resignation after more than 10 years.

LIMA: Seven children have died from rabies in Peru over the past two months after being bitten by bats, an official said Wednesday.

The children, aged 11 months to 14, hailed from a remote region about 1,160 kilometers (721 miles) southeast of the capital Lima, Health Ministry official Ana Maria Navarro told AFP.

"According to the symptoms and medical reports, it appears the seven indigenous children died of rabies," she said.

PRAGUE: A Russian army plane caught fire when a faulty landing gear sent it skidding off the runway on Wednesday as it was arriving at a Czech military airport, injuring seven, authorities said.

"Seven people were injured, two of whom were taken to a hospital in Prague by helicopters with serious burns," local emergency service spokesman Petr Mach told AFP.

Mach said four others were taken to a local hospital and one was treated on the spot. Emergency services have ended their rescue operation, he said.

BAGHDAD: Iran made a counter-proposal to the P5+1 group of world powers during talks between the two sides over its nuclear programme on Wednesday, and talks will run into a second day, an Iranian official said.

"Iran proposed a package with five items based on the principles of step-by-step and reciprocity, and we are waiting for the reaction of the P5+1 during meetings this afternoon," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The official said talks would continue Wednesday evening and into Thursday.

LONDON: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to address parliament on June 21 during her landmark visit to Britain, it was announced today.

The 66-year-old democracy icon spent much of the last two decades locked up in her Yangon home by Myanmar's former junta but has now been issued with a passport and is able to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years.

Prime Minister David Cameron invited her to visit Britain during talks in Yangon in April.

PRETORIA: Since the beginning of this year, a total of 220 rhinos in South Africa has been lost to illegal killings, says the Department of Environmental Affairs.

The Kruger National Park, Limpopo Province, North West Province and KwaZulu-Natal Province remain the areas hardest hit by rhino poachers, collectively accounting for 207 of the rhinos killed this year alone.