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Man guilty of second-degree murder after shooting wife and putting photo of blood-spattered body on Facebook. Derek Medina (centre) shot his wife eight times and posted her body on Facebook [AP] A jury found a Florida man guilty of second-degree murder after he killed his wife and posted a photo of her blood-spattered body on Facebook. Jurors on Wednesday rejected the argument that Derek Medina, 33, acted in self-defence when he shot 27-year-old Jennifer Alfonso eight times in August 2013 at their Miami residence, according to a court spokeswoman. "No family should ever have to see their daughter killed and then exhibited worldwide on the internet like some macabre trophy to a husband's anger as was Jennifer Alfonso," State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement. Prosecutors argued he killed her after an argument in which she threatened to leave him. The maximum prison sentence would be sought for Medina, who faces 25 years...

Cameron said the UK must expand anti-ISIL air strikes to Syria to deny the group a "safe haven" [Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters] Britain should join air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. Cameron attempted to persuade politicians to back action in parliament, arguing the Paris attacks have given new urgency to the fight against ISIL. The Royal Air Force is part of a US-led coalition attacking fighters in Iraq, but not in Syria. Cameron said Britain must join the coalition in Syria to deny ISIL a "safe haven" from which to plot mass-casualty attacks around the world. "I believe that we should now take the decision to extend British air strikes against ISIL into Syria," he said in a written statement to MPs. "It is wrong for the United Kingdom to sub-contract its security to other countries." On Monday in France, Cameron and French President Francois...