26 June 2011 Last updated at 23:17 ET A leather jacket worn by US singer Michael Jackson in his renowned Thriller video has sold at auction in California for $1.8m (£1.1m). Jackson wore the jacket in the 1983 video, in a scene with a troupe of zombies who rise from their graves and break into a dance routine.
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Mauritanian special forces joined troops from Mali in launching an offensive targeting what they called an al Qaeda base camp, Mauritanian army officials said Sunday.
