 The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, has been sentenced by a U.S. judge to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking. He had earlier been convicted by a federal court in New York. Scientists studying fossil fragments of a Neanderthal community have found the earliest known instance of Down syndrome in a young child. Researchers say the fact the child lived to about the age of six suggests that the community rallied to help the mother care for the youngster.