News Headlines - 15 May 2015

▽Burundi Government Says It Has Crushed Coup Attempt - NYTimes.com

Loyalist police and army officers have crushed an attempted coup in Burundi, the government said Friday. The announcement followed two days of confusion over who controlled the central African country, which has been shaken by weeks of violent protests over the president’s ambitions to stay in office.

▽Boston bombing: How will Dzhokhar Tsarnaev die? - BBC News

A jury has sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the bombing of the 2013 Boston Marathon. What happens now as he awaits execution?

▽10 members of Congress took trip secretly funded by foreign government - The Washington Post

The state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku, on the Caspian Sea, in 2013 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members, according to a confidential ethics report obtained by The Washington Post. Three former top aides to President Obama appeared as speakers at the event.

▽David Cameron squeezed by pleas for power on both sides of border - FT.com

David Cameron faces intensifying rival pressure from London and Edinburgh, as a leading Tory backbencher insists on more control for English MPs over English affairs while Scotland pushes for wider powers.

▽England star is out after attack on taxi driver | The Times

Manu Tuilagi, the England rugby international, has lost the chance of playing in the World Cup after a late-night altercation in which he grabbed a taxi driver by the throat and shoved two policewomen in the chest.