LONDON - JURORS at an inquest into death of an innocent Brazilian mistakenly shot by police in an anti-terror operation cannot rule he was killed unlawfully, a coroner said on Tuesday.

The former High Court judge overseeing the London inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes told the jury that they can only reach a verdict of lawful killing or an 'open verdict.'

CHICAGO - BARACK Obama was turning his attention back to the country's economic crisis on Tuesday at a meeting with state governors, a day after introducing a strong-willed national security team headed by former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bush administration holdover Robert Gates.

With the announcements on Monday, Mr Obama has finished naming the highest profile members of his administration seven weeks before taking office.

NAIROBI - THE Somali prime minister says his country has been torn apart by a long civil war and cannot stop piracy alone.

Nur Hassan Hussein says the piracy problem 'is part of the legacy of the situation of the country. This 18 years of civil war is followed by disorder.'