‘GREAT TRAIN ROBBER’ RONNIE BIGGS LAID TO REST
By JILL LAWLESS A band leads the coffin of great train robber Ronnie Biggs into Golders Green Crematorium in London, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. The world renowned robber Biggs who…
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2 NEWSPAPERS CALL FOR CLEMENCY FOR EDWARD SNOWDEN
By RAPHAEL SATTER within a few hours of one another, but Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said the papers’ appeals weren’t coordinated ahead of time. “Complete coincidence,” he said in an…
IMMIGRATION FEARS SPARK POLITICAL FIRESTORM IN UK
By SYLVIA HUI Recent editions of Britain’s Daily Express and Daily Mail newspapers, featuring headlines about immigration, are photographed in London, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. For months, Britain’s tabloids have…
POST-MORTEM DUE FOR UK DOCTOR WHO DIED IN SYRIA
Fatima Khan, left, mother of the deceased British doctor Abbas Khan, 32, who was seized by Syrian government troops in November 2012, cries while her son Afroze Khan consoles her…
SYRIAN REBEL SPOKESMAN DECRIES US, UK AID DECISION
By BASSEM MROUE This image made on a government-organized media tour for local journalists shows people returning to the western town of Nabek, which Syrian troops took full control of…
UK JAILS 4 FOR REVENGE ATTACK ON INDIAN GENERAL
This undated handout photo, issued on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, by the Metropolitan Police shows (clockwise from top left) Mandeep Singh Sandhu, 34, Dilbag Singh, 37, Barjinder Singh Sangha, 33…
RADICAL PREACHER GOES ON TRIAL IN JORDAN
By JAMAL HALABY FILE – In this Tuesday, April 17, 2012 file photo, Radical al-Qaida-linked preacher Abu Qatada is driven away after being refused bail at a hearing at London’s…
COURT: EXEC GUILTY OVER FAULTY FRENCH IMPLANTS
By LORI HINNANT Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of Poly Implant Prothese, leaves the courthouse of Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. A court has ruled that the French businessman…