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It has been informed by authorities that an Australian woman has been indicted on murder charges, accused of killing her husband by setting his genitals on fire.

The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Monday that Rajini Narayan, 45, also faces arson charges in the December 2008 attack, which destroyed the family's house near Adelaide.

He might withdraw from the recently signed U. S.-Russia nuclear disarmament treaty if U. S. missile plans in Europe create "imbalance," Russia's president has said.

American missile defense plans in Europe could conflict with language in the START treaty stating there is an "interconnection between the strategic offensive arms and missile defense," Dmitry Medvedev said, speaking on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday.

Officials have informed that Arizona wants a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a Phoenix couple who say they were falsely accused of sexually exploiting their daughters.

The Arizona Republic reported on Monday that Lisa and Anthony Demaree are suing the state of Arizona for more than $8 million in damages after they lost custody of their daughters in an investigation by the state over naked bath and playtime photos of their children.

On Tuesday morning, a key Indian equities index again started weak and was ruling 47 points lower about half an hour into trade.

Opening at 17,831.38 points, the sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) was ruling at 17,805.14 points, down 47.86 points or 0.27 percent from its previous close at 17,853 points.

On Monday, the Sensex had languished in a listless trade and ended moderately in the red.

Authorities have informed that a Brazilian rancher accused of arranging the 2005 killing of an American nun in the Amazon region will face a retrial.

The BBC reported on Monday that Vitalmiro Bastos Moura was convicted and sentenced to 38 years in prison in a 2007 trial for the murder of Dorothy Stang, but was acquitted in a 2008 retrial.

The BBC also said that Moura was suspected of bribing a witness to change his testimony in the second trial, and a court ordered him held pending a second retrial.

The BBC further said that Moura is charged with hiring two hit men to shoot Stang, 73, in the Amazon state of Para. Both men have confessed and named Moura as the man who hired them.

Saying the state can pay whatever level of wages it wants, even zero, an appeals court has ruled against higher pay for federal prisoners in California.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Monday that in a 3-0 ruling, Ninth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said prisoners "do not have a legal entitlement to payment for their work."

It was further reported that the ruling came in a lawsuit brought by attorney J. Tony Serra, who spent nine months in a federal prison camp for non-payment of taxes.