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Prosecutors said Matthew Keys, 28, provided the hackers a password to access systems belonging to Tribune Co, the newspaper's parent company.

Prosecutors said Keys used online chat channels to encourage the hacktivists.

Sentencing will take place in January, but he is not expected to receive the maximum possible sentence of 25 years.

A spokesman for the US Justice Department told Reuters the sentence would likely be less than five years.

Keys' lawyer said he planned to appeal the verdict.

Keys was charged with conspiracy to cause damage to a protected computer, transmission of malicious code, and attempted transmission of malicious code. He was found guilty on all three counts.

Court documents said the incidents took place in December 2010, shortly after Keys had lost his job at California-based TV station Fox 40 KTXL, also owned by Tribune Co.

Keys went on to work for Reuters as the agency's social media editor, but was let go after he was charged in 2012.

Prosecutors said Keys' actions were "anonymous revenge".

Under the online pseudonym AESCracked, Keys was said to have shared log-in details for the LA Times' content management system - CMS - the software used to enter content, such as articles or pictures, to be published on the newspaper's website.

With this information, an unidentified Anonymous member using the name "sharpie" is said to have edited a story on the LA Times site.

A headline was altered to read: "Pressure builds in House to elect CHIPPY 1337".

Within the article, the opening paragraph was also changed to include the phrase "reluctant House Democrats told to SUCK IT UP".

The defacement was "live" on the LA Times site for about an hour, the defence said.

It comes after Nato member Turkey complained that Russian jets had repeatedly violated its airspace.

Ministers are also expected to review a range of measures introduced in the wake of the Ukraine crisis.

BBC defence correspondent Jonathan Marcus says the alliance aims to make clear it will respond to any challenge.

Nato ministers are expected to express their solidarity with Turkey and also address increased concern among Baltic members following Russia's involvement in eastern Ukraine.

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is expected to announce that Britain is ready to make a long-term troop deployment to the Baltic republics, our correspondent says.

But, he adds, ministers are meeting amid a deepening sense of crisis.

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The government was accused of borrowing money illegally from state banks to make up for budget shortfalls.

The opposition says the ruling by the Federal Accounts Court - which reports to Congress - paves the way for impeachment proceedings against Ms Rousseff.

She was re-elected less than a year ago but has record low popularity ratings.

The Brazilian government says it would challenge Wednesday's ruling in the Supreme Court.

"The game is not over," said Attorney General Luis Adams.

The minister who handled the case in the Accounts Court, Augusto Nardes, said the government disregarded fiscal and constitutional principles in the handling of the 2014 accounts.

If the decision is upheld by the Supreme Court, the government's accounts will then be assessed by the Congress, where Ms Rousseff's coalition has a majority.

This is the latest in a series of setbacks for Ms Rousseff.

On Tuesday, Brazil's top electoral authority said that it would re-open an investigation into alleged misuse of funds during Ms Rousseff's re-election campaign.

The Supreme Electoral Court will try to determine if Ms Rousseff's and Vice-President Michel Temer's campaign drew on donations from illegal sources.

The probe was requested by the opposition PSDB party.

The Brazilian economy has gone into recession and is expected to shrink by 3% this year.

The government's popularity has fallen amid corruption scandals involving senior politicians from Ms Rousseff's Worker's Party and other coalition members.

The US has said the bombing, which took place in the Afghan city of Kunduz, was a mistake and it was attempting to strike the Taliban.

MSF wants the bombing to be investigated as a war crime.

Mr Obama has also apologised to the president of Afghanistan.

"If it is necessary to hold individuals accountable, that will be done," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest.

Mr Obama "expressed his condolences" to MSF president Joanne Liu, said Mr Earnest.

"In the United States when we make mistakes, we're honest about it. We own up to it," he said.

Mr Earnest also hinted at the possibility of paying victims and their families, a Department of Defense policy.

He said he could not say legally whether the bombing was a war crime but the US "goes to great lengths to limit the loss of life" of civilians.

In a statement, MSF said they received the apology but it was still demanding the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) investigate.

MSF has said it would not trust internal military inquiries into the bombing.

The IHFFC was set up in 1991 under the Geneva Conventions.

MSF says the co-ordinates of the hospital were well-known and its bombing could not have been a mistake.

A number of inquiries have been ordered - by the US justice department, the Pentagon, Nato and an American-Afghan team.

The Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs said blood samples from about 35 fighters revealed traces of sulphur mustard.

It did not say if any of the peshmerga had died as a result of the attack, or how severely they had been wounded.

Mustard gas can burn skin and cause severe respiratory problems, and is banned under international law.

The exposure took place along the front lines near the northern Iraqi towns of Makhmour and Gwer, the ministry said in a statement.

Roughly 37 mortars were fired in the attack, the statement added, "releasing white smoke and a black liquid".

The ministry called on countries fighting IS to give peshmerga fighters equipment for protection against chemical attacks. Several countries including the United States are already giving military assistance to the Kurdish fighters.

This is not the first time IS has been accused of using chemical weapons. In March, Kurdish authorities in Iraq said they had evidence that IS had used chlorine gas.

That allegation, by the Kurdistan Region Security Council, followed similar claims that the group had used low-grade chemical weapons against Iraqi security forces.

The director of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons expressed "serious concern" in August over the possibility IS was using prohibited chemical weapons.

The UN recently adopted a resolution aimed at identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria.

IS already has a large arsenal of conventional weapons and military vehicles seized from the Iraqi army, much of it produced by the United States.

Iraq Kurds were the victim of a major chemical weapons attack by the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein in 1988, which left thousands dead in the city of Halabja.

Ismail Morinaj was detained after giving an interview in which he admitted carrying a gun for protection.

Last year's match had to be abandoned as Serbian fans invaded the pitch and attacked Albanian players.

Security for the Serbia team is high in Albania before Thursday's match.

Although the match will take place in Elbasan, an hour's drive to the south-east of Tirana, the Serbia team are staying at a hotel in the capital surrounded by police.

Reports from Tirana spoke of roads inside the city being closed amid a major police operation.

Albania are third in their Euro 2016 qualifying group, behind Portugal and Denmark, but far ahead of Serbia and still hoping to qualify for the knock-out stages of the competition.

Police arrested the 33-year-old suspect and three other men, saying they had found a Zastava pistol and several cartridges, as well as 36 tickets for Thursday's match.

Tensions had already been high before the Euro 2016 tie at the Partizan Stadium in Belgrade and ordinary Albanian fans were not allowed to attend the match.

The two countries have had a long and bitter history of rivalry, and ethnic-Albanian-majority Kosovo's decision to declare independence from Serbia in 2008 brought relations to a new low.

Ismail Morinaj admitted flying the drone from a church across the road from the stadium. As it hovered above the pitch, a large "greater Albania" flag could be seen, portraying nationalist claims to neighbouring states.

Last month, inmates at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility challenged the Harvard team to a debate at the maximum-security lockup.

The prison offers courses taught by faculty from nearby Bard College and the inmates have formed a popular debate club.

The friendly competition ended in a win for the prison's team.

This is not the first win for the Eastern New York Correctional team.

In the two years since starting the club they have challenged and beaten teams from the University of Vermont and the US Military Academy at West Point, with whom they have established an annual match and a budding rivalry.

The Harvard victory may be their biggest success; the Harvard team have won both the national and world championships.

In the match, inmates defended the premise that students whose parents entered the US illegally should be turned away from schools.

The debate was judged by a neutral panel.

Shortly after their loss Harvard students posted on the team's Facebook page.

"There are few teams we are prouder of having lost a debate to than the phenomenally intelligent and articulate team we faced this weekend,"' they wrote. "And we are incredibly thankful to Bard and the Eastern New York Correctional Facility for the work they do and for organizing this event."

At Bard, those who help teach the inmates aren't particularly surprised by their success.

"Students in the prison are held to the exact same standards, levels of rigor and expectation as students on Bard's main campus," said Max Kenner, executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative, which operates in six New York prisons. "Those students are serious. They are not condescended to by their faculty."

The initiative allows inmates to earn a range of degrees mostly taught by Brad professors all taught without access to the internet.

About 15% of all prisoners at Eastern New York Correctional are registered and some graduates have continued their studies at Yale and Columbia universities, according to Kenner.

Michael Horn said he was told about a "possible emissions non-compliance" in the spring of 2014.

The revelation was made in testimony due to be presented to a House committee investigating the scandal on Thursday.

He said he was told after a study by West Virginia University was published.

"I was informed that EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] regulations included various penalties for non-compliance with the emissions standards and that the agencies can conduct engineering tests which could include 'defeat device' testing or analysis," he said.

"I was also informed that the company engineers would work with the agencies to resolve the issue."

Mr Horn said in the written evidence it was not until 3 September this year that Volkswagen told US authorities about the "defeat device" in emissions software in diesel vehicles for the model years 2009 to 2015.

The software allowed a vehicle to recognise whether it was being driven on the road or running in a test laboratory, and turn engine emissions controls on or off.

Mr Horn said the events had been "deeply troubling", adding: "I did not think that something like this was possible at the Volkswagen Group.

"We have broken the trust of our customers, dealerships, and employees, as well as the public and regulators."

He said the company took full responsibility for its actions and was co-operating with all relevant authorities.

"Responsible parties will be identified and held accountable," Mr Horn said.

As well as striving to rebuild the company's reputation, the priority was finding remedies for the three groups of vehicles affected, he said.

The executive will give evidence to the House Energy committee and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations before being questioned by the politicians about the scandal, which affects half a million cars in the US.

Higher capital requirements for its investment bank were partly responsible for the huge impairment charges of €5.8bn.

There was also doubt about the value of its Postbank retail division that Deutsche plans to sell.

Germany's biggest bank also said the dividend for the year could be cut or scrapped.

The group was also setting aside €1.2bn for legal costs.

Deutsche is embroiled in the Libor-rigging scandal and is being investigated by Swiss authorities for suspected price-fixing on the precious metals market.

Analysts had expected a net profit of about €1bn for the third quarter before the unexpected announcement on Wednesday night.

The bank also wrote down by €600m the value of its 20% stake in Hua Xia Bank, which it also plans to sell as it was no longer considered to be strategic.

The writedowns would not affect Deutsche's capital ratio, which stands at an expected 11% for the third quarter when measured by the most stringent test that is part of new European bank rules.

New chief executive John Cryan, who took over in July, is preparing to cut about 23,000 jobs - about a quarter of the workforce - in a bid to reduce costs, it was reported last month.

Deutsche Bank is due to publish its full third-quarter results on 29 October.

Underlying profits for the first half of its financial year were £354m, 55% down on the same period last year, when it made £779m.

Its pre-tax profit was £74m, compared with a loss of £19m for the same period a year ago.

Like-for-like sales were down 1.1% for the UK, but sales volume rose 1.4%.

The number of transactions were also up by 1.5%.

Chief executive Dave Lewis has put pressure on profits by focusing on price cuts and putting more staff in stores, in an effort to attract customers back to Tesco.

He told the BBC he was "quietly confident" about Tesco's turnaround, admitting the group hit a low point at the end of last year.

"We obviously had some issues to deal with, we dealt with them. It meant that in the second half of last year we made no profit whatsoever in the UK.

"So if I compare to the second half of last year, the first half of this year feels like we've made some progress," Mr Lewis said.

"Our sales are growing compared to where they were either a year ago, or indeed in the second half of last year. And we've generated some profit as we rebuild the profitability of Tesco business. But importantly at the same time, improving what it is we're doing for our customers."

Mike Dennis, of global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald Europe, described Tesco's interim results as "disappointing".

"The risk now is that Tesco's recovery needs more time, requires more restructuring and asset sales and, with less cash flow, could require a rights issue to lower the indebtedness," he said.

Charles Hanover, investments partner at Dafydd Davies, said: "Tesco did not have a great set of numbers, but they were marginally better than expected.

"In the medium term, it's still a strong business, but in the short term, they still have hurdles to overcome in terms of competition from cheaper rivals."

Tesco has confirmed it will cost it about £500m to meet the government's proposed National Living Wage rate of £9 an hour by 2020.

Mr Lewis said the group already paid more than the £7.20 minimum which is being brought in under the National Living Wage plans next April.

He added that extra staff benefits already brought its hourly rate closer to £9.

Tesco has completed the sale of its Homeplus stores in South Korea, reducing its debt by £4.2bn.

It has decided to keep its Dunnhumby data business which runs its Clubcard loyalty scheme, after failing to attract enough interest in its sale.

In April, Tesco reported the worst results in its history, with a record statutory pre-tax loss of £6.4bn for the year to the end of February.

The supermarket is still under a criminal investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after it admitted overstating its profits by £326m nearly a year ago.

Mr Lewis declined to comment in a BBC interview on reports that the company was close to striking a deal with the SFO.

Core machinery orders, a leading indicator of capital expenditure, fell by 5.7% in August, compared with expectations for a rise of 3.2%.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index was down 0.49% at 18,234.04 points in mid morning trade.

Investors were also taking in fresh official trade numbers from August.

The country's ministry of finance said Japan posted a current account surplus for the 14th month in a row, but that exports were up 3.1% in August from a year earlier, compared to a rise of 7.6% in July.

The official numbers showed the surplus at 1.65tn yen ($13.8bn) against expectations for about 1.23tn yen.

Meanwhile, global investors were also absorbing a warning from the IMF which said "global financial stability is not yet assured".

A senior IMF official said the nature of the danger had changed. Financial stability in advanced economies has improved, but risks had moved towards emerging economies, Jose Vinals explained.

As mainland Chinese markets reopened after the Golden Week holidays, the Shanghai Composite benchmark index was up 3.3% 3,153.46 in mid-morning trade.

However, Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng was down 0.66% at 22,366.48 points after marking its highest close since 20 August on Wednesday.

In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 was up 0.42% at 5,219.90, with shares in mining giant BHP up 2.97%.

In South Korea, the Kospi index was flat, down 0.09% at 2,003.97.

AB InBev on Wednesday raised its offer for SAB to £42.15 a share, having previously bid £38 and £40.

SABMiller closed up 2.4% at £37.08, having risen sharply since InBev first made its move last month.

Any deal between the two would create the world's biggest brewer, worth more than £180bn.

SABMiller said its board had formally considered the new offer, and had "unanimously rejected the proposal as it still very substantially undervalues SABMiller, its unique and unmatched footprint, and its standalone prospects".

AB InBev brews Budweiser, Stella Artois and Corona, while SAB brews Peroni and Grolsch, among others.

If a deal does go through, the merged company would produce one-third of the world's beer.

On Tuesday, SAB reported a 9% fall in revenues for the three months to September, which it blamed on weakening emerging market currencies.

Sales volumes were up 2%.

Shares in AB InBev closed up 0.6% in Brussels at €98.65.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 0.73% at 16,912.2 points.

The price of Brent crude rose as much as 0.8% to $52.73, but later settled at $51.33 a barrel.

All the other main US indexes made similar gains, with the S&P 500 closing up 0.8% at 1,995.8, while the Nasdaq finished 0.9% higher at 4,791.1.

Oil company Chevron was the biggest gainer on the Dow in early trading and ended the day up 1.3%.

The construction equipment maker Caterpillar rose nearly 2% in morning trade, but finished down 0.6%.

Its shares have fallen from about $115 since the beginning of the year after cutting its workforce.

On the wider S&P500, shares in Yum Brands, the owner of KFC and Taco Bell, ended the day down 18.8%.

The company lowered its full-year earnings forecasts, saying it had been hit by slow growth in China and the strength of the dollar.

Leaders of the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) initiative promise that the stripped-back versions of the pages will be "lightning fast" to load.

The move has been led by Google, which is providing use of its servers.

Participants believe it may discourage the use of ad-blocking plug-ins.

AMP works by simplifying the technical underpinnings of the pages involved.

Much of the Javascript code used on normal webpages is absent, meaning articles should not only appear faster but use less battery power.

Publishers can continue to tap into the same ad networks as before, but they will not be able to display some types of adverts including pop-ups and "sticky" images that move as users scroll down a page.

Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Wordpress have said they also intend to make use of the technology.

Facebook is a notable exception. The social network recently launched an alternative programme called Instant Articles, which speeds up the delivery of third-party content by hosting it on its own platform.

News sites will automatically create AMP versions of their stories at the same time as they publish and update the originals.

View an AMP edition of this article

Google intends to scrape these from the web, store them on its cache servers and then serve them to users via its Search and News tools.

Likewise, the social networks involved are also expected to cache and direct users to the AMP articles rather than the originals if users click on relevant links in their apps.

"Today, roughly 40% of users abandon an article if it doesn't load after six seconds," Danny Bernstein, Google's director of product partnerships, told the BBC.

"To be able to pull down an article instantly from Twitter, from Pinterest is a remarkable thing.

"We'll support accelerated mobile pages in search in 2016, but the code is public, so publishers can launch them today, and we expect some smaller apps to be able to render AMP files immediately."