A landmark ruling has granted a woman who was gang-raped and left for dead during the 2002 Gujarat riots five million rupees (£55,300) in compensation.

Bilkis Yakoob Rasool Bano, 36, is the first woman to receive direct financial redress from India’s Supreme Court for crimes committed during the riots.

The sum comes after a 17-year legal fight during which Ms Bano received death threats for trying to bring her attackers to justice. The court also ruled that Gujarati authorities must offer Ms Bano a government job and a house in the area of her choice.

The riots were sparked when a train carrying Hindu pilgrims was set on fire, resulting in 58 deaths. In the three days that followed, a spate of violent revenge attacks were carried out against the state’s minority Muslim population.

Around 1,900 people died, according to The Concerned Citizens Tribunal Report.

Like many Muslims, Ms Bano and her family attempted to flee the violence.

However, the truck they were traveling in was stopped by around 30 rioters near the city of Ahmedabad.

The mob murdered 14 members of Ms Bano’s family, including her three-year-old daughter who was beaten to death with a rock.

The heavily-pregnant Ms Bano was gang-raped 22 times and left for dead.

She first tried to bring her attackers to justice in 2003 but the Gujarati police refused to believe her claims, arguing she had insufficient evidence.

Ms Bano then approached India’s National Human Rights Commission, which finally brought her case to the Supreme Court. In January 2004, the court arrested the accused and agreed to try them in Gujarat.

However, the hearing was jeopardised as Ms Bano was forced to move home 20 times in two years after receiving death threats.

Eventually, the case was moved to Mumbai and in 2008 11 of her attackers received life sentences. Seven doctors and policemen were also sentenced for trying to tamper with evidence to discredit Ms Bano’s claims.

Eleven years later, she has finally reached an agreement with the authorities over financial compensation.

“It has been a journey of a million steps, first seeking criminal conviction of those who destroyed my life, my child, my entire family,” Ms Bano said after the ruling.

“The Supreme Court’s order to me is not about the money – it is about the signal it has sent to the State and to each citizen of this country.”

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A US police officer who shot dead an Australian woman in 2017 was found guilty of murder on Tuesday by a Minneapolis jury, ending a case that has shocked the Midwestern city and sparked outrage in her native country.

Mohamed Noor, 33, who was fired from the city’s police force, was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

The jury, which began deliberating on Monday after three weeks of testimony from dozens of witnesses, acquitted the former officer of the most serious charge of second-degree murder with intent to kill.

Noor was taken out of the courtroom in handcuffs and into custody, according to US media reports.

He testified that he shot Justine Damond, an Australian who had moved to the US, to protect his partner, because he had feared an ambush when responding to an emergency call she had made.

But prosecutors insisted that the shooting was unreasonable and contrary to police department training policy.

Noor targeted Damond from the passenger seat of the police cruiser he was in with his partner, Matthew Harrity.

The 40-year-old victim, a yoga instructor, had approached the cruiser after calling 911 twice to report a possible rape in the dark alley behind her home. No such assault was ever found to have occurred.

Defense attorney Peter Wold told jurors the former officer was heartbroken over the shooting.

Noor testified that he believed there was an imminent threat after he saw a cyclist stop near the police cruiser, heard a loud bang and saw Harrity’s "reaction to the person on the driver’s side raising her right arm."

Noor added that when he reached from the cruiser’s passenger seat and shot Damond through the driver’s side window, it was because he thought his partner "would have been killed."

Damond was wounded in the abdomen and died at the scene. Her last words were: "I’m dying," according to authorities.

Damond had moved to the Midwestern city to marry her American fiancee Don Damond. She had changed her name from her maiden name, Ruszczyk.

Her death caused outrage back home and her Australian family was in the courtroom for the trial.

At a press conference, Damond’s father, John Ruszczyk, said he believed Noor’s conviction was reached despite the "active resistance" of many police officers and institutions.

The shooting also enraged many of the victim’s neighbors, who mounted a campaign for police reforms. The city’s police chief at the time was forced to resign within days.

"I want to extend my sincere apologies to the family and friends of Justine Damond Ruszcyzk," Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo said in a statement after the verdict.

The chief called the incident "sad and tragic" and acknowledged that it had had an impact "around the world, most significantly in her home country of Australia."

"I will ensure that the (department) learns from this case," Arradondo said.

Don Damond, the victim’s fiance, said during a press conference that the case showed "an egregious failure" by police.

"Nearly two years ago my fiancee, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, was shot dead in her pajamas outside our home without warning as she walked up to a police car which she had summoned," he said.

He called for "a complete transformation of policing in Minneapolis and around the country."

Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said this was the first known murder conviction of an on-duty officer in Minnesota.

Police officers involved in controversial shootings are rarely sent to prison, because juries and judges are loath to second guess officers’ life-or-death decisions made within seconds.

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US trials have mostly resulted in hung juries or acquittals, which at times have caused civil unrest in cities where racial tensions are already high.

Another Minnesota officer, Jeronimo Yanez, was fired from his job but acquitted after fatally shooting black motorist Philando Castile in 2016.

Grassroots group "Justice for Justine" founder Sarah Kuhnen said her organization lauded Noor’s conviction, but mentioned the names of several others killed by police in Minnesota and beyond in recent years, including Castile.

"While we are glad, so very glad for this verdict," Kuhnen said, "We don’t for a second think that the system is fixed."

Donald Trump’s businesses lost a total of more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, according to the New York Times, which said it obtained printouts from Trump’s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts.

The newspaper said Mr Trump posted losses in excess of $250 million in both 1990 and 1991, which appeared to be more than double any other individual US taxpayer in an annual IRS sampling of high-income earners.

Mr Trump lost so much money that he was able to avoid paying income taxes for eight of the 10 years, the Times said.

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Over the 10 years, Mr Trump’s core businesses, including casinos, hotels and apartment buildings, lost $1.17 billion, according to the newspaper.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Times quoted a lawyer for the president, Charles Harder, as saying the tax information was "highly inaccurate."

Mr Trump, a real estate magnate who turned over the running of his businesses to his sons after his election in 2016, touted his business acumen and negotiating skills on the campaign trail.

The president broke with a decades-old precedent by refusing to release his tax returns as a presidential candidate in 2016 or since being elected, saying he could not do so while his taxes were being audited.

On Monday, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused a request by the Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee for Trump’s tax returns.

Democrats want Mr Trump’s tax data as part of their investigations of possible conflicts of interest posed by his continued ownership of extensive business interests, even as he serves as president.

Ferrari’s under-performance in the opening round of the 2020 F1 season has incited the Italian outfit to bring forward to next weekend a series of updates for its SF1000 initially scheduled for Hungary.

With a car virtually unchanged since pre-season testing in Barcelona, the Scuderia found itself engulfed in the midfield in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, during which Sebastian Vettel failed to make the Q3 cut.

Leclerc salvaged a second-place finish on race day, thanks to a spirited drive and very lucky circumstances while Vettel finished a lowly P10 after a collision with McLaren’s Carlos Sainz undermined the German’s afternoon.

To remedy the aerodynamic flaws identified on its SF1000 after pre-season testing, Ferrari has devised a significant upgrade package which it intended to introduce next week in Hungary.

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However, the Scuderia said on Monday that several updates have been brought forward to this week’s Styrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring.

“The SF1000 didn’t measure up, even compared to expectations ahead of the event,” said Ferrari.

“Because of this, development has already been going on at full pace for some time. This is in the hope of bringing forward to next weekend the introduction of the aerodynamic package scheduled for the Hungarian Grand Prix – or, at least, some of its components.”

The implementation of the updates this week will allow Ferrari to conduct a back-to-back comparison on the same track with last weekend’s performance, and thus validate the “direction of development”.

But the Italian outfit isn’t expecting the new components to produce a massive step forward.

“It’s not that these new parts are expected to completely bridge the gap compared to the front of the grid,” it added.

“But the progress in terms of lap time could allow the team to move up the order and put the drivers in a better condition to be able to display their talent.

“Moreover, it’s about checking that the chosen direction of development is the right one, precisely because it will be possible to do a true back-to-back on every upgrade.”

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