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Attorney Steven Wise is on a crusade to prove that, as a matter of law, chimps are people too.
  
For that matter, so are dolphins, elephants, gorillas and orcas.
  
Wise made his argument at the TED Conference that wrapped up in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.
  
"I had to invent the field of animal juris prudence," Wise told AFP at TED.
  

Two Turkish cartoonists face up to two years in jail on charges of ?insulting? President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, over a satirical piece on free speech in which they allegedly included a hidden offensive gesture.

The detection of damaged cables on two separate aircrafts at an ?zmir airbase has triggered suspicion of a sabotage attempt, and an investigation has been opened.

Military prosecutors launched a probe after a cut cable was found in a jet during a final check before its flight two months ago.

A panel of judges at Zagreb County Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by lawyers for Mayor Milan Bandic and prolonged his stay behind bars.

Bandic was placed in custody on Tuesday last week on suspicion of influencing a witness, forging official documents and blocking the judicial process.

A 15-year-old girl from central Turkey, who was allegedly raped by eight teenagers three years ago, has sent a letter to the judge who acquitted all suspects on the grounds that she had ?given consent,? according to media reports on March 16.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said on Wednesday the police suspected that the recent abduction of a two-year girl in Belgrade had been the work of organised crime and that the child would have been sold.

BELGRADE - An association of families of people kidnapped and murdered in Kosovo-Metohija on Tuesday marked 17 years since the first anti-Serb crimes, and deputy war crimes prosecutor Bruno Vekaric said that the primary objective is to find those kidnapped and punish the perpetrators.

Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova needed six match points to grind out a 6-4, 6-3 win over Victoria Azarenka in a rare early marquee matchup at Indian Wells on March 16.
      

Witness Sejla Turkovic testified at the court in Pristina on Monday that Radoncic told her that he had the right of approval over Kelmendi's actions.

Radoncic features prominently in the 49-page indictment against Kelmendi, who is charged with being the head of a major trafficking ring ferrying drugs from Afghanistan to western Europe, with the Bosnian capital Sarajevo as the hub.

The Special Court in Belgrade on Monday ordered 30 days' custody for one man and two women, all holders of French passports, suspected of kidnapping the two-year-old girl in the Serbian capital on March 13.

The court argued that the alleged kidnappers could flee or influence witnesses.