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George Zimmerman has been released from a Florida jail after posting $150,000 bond as he awaits trial for the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.Zimmerman exited the John E. Polk Correctional Facility (JEPCF) at the Seminole County Sheriff's Office at approximately midnight on Monday. The 28-year-old posted bond and was fitted with an electronic monitoring device prior to release, according to a statement from the Seminole County Sheriff's Office.  The GPS device, which can give immediate identification of an offender's whereabouts at any given time, will be monitored by the SCSO and Seminole County Probation.   At a bond hearing on Friday morning Judge Kenneth Lester agreed to allow Zimmerman, who is charged with second degree murder, to post a $150,000 bond to get out of jail. The prosecution had argued that Zimmerman should be denied bail or that it should be set at $1 million. Zimmerman is being held on charges of second-degree murder for the Fe...

  Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman turned himself in Wednesday to face a charge of second-degree murder after a Florida special prosecutor announced she had concluded that his claims of self defense were not supported in the shooting death of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Special prosecutor Angela Corey's announcement marked a turning point in the high-profile case, as weeks of outrage and speculation about Zimmerman's motives culminated in his arrest -- something that Martin's family and their supporters have argued for since the Feb. 26 shooting in a gated community in Sanford, Fla. But Zimmerman's new lawyer, Mark O'Mara, said his client will plead not guilty, and he is "hoping that the community will calm down" after the intense scrutiny of the case in the community and the media drove Zimmerman into hiding. Zimmerman, 28, was booked Wednesday evening into the Seminole County Jail, and he could face a minimum of 25 years ...

The Trayvon Martin case took a bizarre turn Tuesday when George Zimmerman's attorneys said they were dropping the neighborhood watch captain as a client, complaining that they have lost contact with him and that he called the prosecutor and talked to a TV host after they told him not to speak to anyone. The lawyers portrayed Zimmerman as erratic and his emotional state as shaky, and they expressed fear for his mental and physical health under the pressure that has been building in the month since he shot and killed Martin, an unarmed black teenager. "As of the last couple days he has not returned phone calls, text messages or e-mails," attorney Craig Sonner said at a news conference outside the courthouse. "He's gone on his own. I'm not sure what he's doing or who he's talking to. I cannot go forward speaking to the public about George Zimmerman and this case." The split came as a special prosecutor neared a decision on whether to char...

Facebook has announced it is to buy Instagram, the popular photo-sharing smartphone app, at a cost of $1bn. Instagram allows smartphone users to take and share photos with one another and apply special effects to their pictures give them a vintage look. In its two-year history it has grown fast, gathering 30 million users although it has little by way of revenues and it has only 13 employees. Patrick Moorhead, analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy in Austin Texas, told the Today programme's Simon Jack that this was a "tremendous investment no matter way you look at it". He said that Instagram has generated a huge following in the short time they have been out there. He went on to say that Facebook was interested because "there was a potential that people would defect over to Instagram" and were looking at the deal "as risk mitigation to their IPO (initial public offering)". "There are two holes they need to plug before going pub...

Scramble Over Neighborhood Watch Movie, Following the phone-hacking scandal that has led to several humiliating headlines in the past year for News Corp. (NWS), bad timing has now led to a minor stumble for the Rupert Murdoch empire.The $60 million Fox movie ‘Neighborhood Watch’ is accelerating the switch up for its initial marketing campaign in response to a news event that has horrified -- and polarized -- the nation.  Slated for a July release, 'Neighborhood Watch' is a comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn and Billy Crudup as a quartet of volunteer watchmen who engage in hilarious hijinks as they cruise their suburban neighborhood seeking out troublemakers. Along the way they uncover a conspiracy that involves aliens. But they also take time to nab such “dangerous” figures as adolescent boys involved in egg-throwing incidents.The initial teaser trailer includes a bit in which the watchmen furiously grill the young egg bandit. Therein lay the comedy -- and...

As George Zimmerman's supporters work to stem the rising tide of public outrage aimed at the neighborhood watchman who shot and killed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin last month, a new picture of the victim—culled from the 17-year-old's Facebook and Twitter accounts and witness testimony—has emerged."With a single punch," the Orlando Sentinel, citing police sources, reported Monday, "Trayvon Martin decked the Neighborhood Watch volunteer ... climbed on top of [him] and slammed his head into the sidewalk several times, leaving him bloody and battered."   "That is the account Zimmerman gave police," the paper said, "and much of it has been corroborated by witnesses, authorities say." Zimmerman's attorney, Craig Sonner, says that Zimmerman acted in self-defense and is not a racist as some have portrayed him. "I think we need to let the investigation come forward and let all the facts in this case come out," Sonner said on the ...