‘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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US ‘LOST BOY’ AMONG MANY FLEEING S SUDAN VIOLENCE
By BEN CURTIS In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, Phillip Madol, 33, left, one of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in…
TOMB OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BEER BREWER UNEARTHED
This image released by the Supreme Council of Antiquities shows colored inscriptions on a newly discovered tomb in Luxor, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. Egypt’s minister of antiquities said Japanese…
SOUTH SUDAN’S WARRING FACTIONS MEET IN ETHIOPIA
By ELIAS MESERET and BEN CURTIS Grang Demebiar, left, the son of late Sudanese politician John Garang, who is in the group supporting ousted Vice President Riek Machar, as Grang…
PRAGUE LOCALS WANT TO OUST PALESTINIAN EMBASSY
By KAREL JANICEK Investigators observe the situation in the residence of Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic Jamal Al Jamal, who has died after an explosion in his diplomatic flat…
SNAPCHAT SUFFERS SECURITY BREACH
By BARBARA ORTUTAY This Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013 file photo shows Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel in Los Angeles. Snapchat, the disappearing-message service, has been quiet following a security breach that…
TAKING HELM OF NYPD, BRATTON PROMISES REFORMS
By COLLEEN LONG New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton walks into his first press conference at police headquarters, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)…
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…