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Hello! And good Monday to you. I am Stacey Elgin at the cnn Center in Atlanta. Here's a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS.

We are now hearing one of O. J. Simpson's co-defendants will testify against him. A court official says Charles Kashmore will plead guilty to an accessary to robbery charges. That's an exchange for testifying against Simpson and four other men charged with armed robbery. Simpson and the others are accused of robbing two men of sports memorabilia in a Las Vegas hotel room. Simpson says the items were his, and there was no robbery.

Rapper T. I. will appear in a federal court in Atlanta this afternoon. The entertainer whose real name is Clifford Harris was arrested over the weekend. Authorities say Harris had his bodyguard buy machine guns and silencers for him. Harris is not allowed to own weapons because he's a convicted felon. During a search of his home, federal authorities also found six other guns, five of them loaded.

AOL says it's cutting its workforce by 20 percent, and that means 2000 employees will lose their jobs. More than half of them in the US. The internet provider is reducing jobs as part of a transition to online advertizing. AOL is owned by Time-Warner , the parent company of cnn.

He is the target of an urgent global search. And now international police think they know who he is. Just into cnn, Interpol says it identified the suspected pedophile allegedly shown on the internet molesting young south Asian boys. The man's face was disguised in a digital whirl, but police say they unwhirled it using secret technics and put it out.

Airbus has delivered its first finished A380 super jumbo jet to Singapore Airlines. The carrier accepted the delivery at presentation at Airbus headquarters in France. But Monday's handover is taking place just two years later than planned. The delay has cost Airbus more than 6 billion dollars in claim the jobs of a string of top executives.

Well, that's a look at the headlines for you this hour. Do be sure to stay with cnn for more on these stories and other news of the day.