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  • London police round up more men over murder of soldier London police round up more men over murder of soldier

    Three men have been arrested in London over the murder of the British soldier, Lee Rigby, 25, who was allegedly hacked to death by Islamist extremists. Two men aged 28 and 24 were arrested at their home in southeast London, while a 21-year-old man was arrested in a London street. Police are considering laying conspiracy to murder charges against the trio. They are being held by Counter ...

  • Stadium tour can spin gold for One Direction

    British band One Direction can reportedly earn millions from their 2014 stadium tour "Where We Are Tour" as the tickets are already sold out. Tickets went on sale May 25 and with demand so high extra dates were added within 30 minutes, reports mirror.co.uk. According to Chris Edmonds, chairman of Ticketmaster Britain, at one point "200,000 fans had been left waiting in a virtual queue". "If ...

  • Serbia Gives State Funeral to Former King Family

    OPLENAC Serbian government officials and hundreds of mourners attended the reburial of King Petar II Karadjordjevic and other members of the deposed Yugoslavian royal family on Sunday decades after their deaths in exile - an event seen as an important act of national reconciliation. The bodies of Petar, his wife Queen Aleksandra, mother Queen Maria and brother Prince Andrej, had been ...

  • Thousands headed to violent extremism British home secretary

    British Home Secretary Theresa May Sunday warned that thousands of people living in Britain could be "on the path" to becoming violent radicals and terrorists. The warning by the home secretary came as she confirmed a fresh crackdown on extremist groups who could be a threat to national security and revealed that around 500 police and security officers were working on the "horrific murder" of ...

  • Windies carrying World T20 confidence to Champions Trophy

    West Indies head coach Otis Gibson says the Caribbean cricketers will arrive in England for the Champions Trophy full of confidence on the strength of their triumph at the World T20 last year. Gibson, playing down suggestions that the Windies could be under pressure to perform, says the success in Sri Lanka late last year, could instead provide a fillip. The Windies head coach was speaking at ...

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

In the 10 years since the planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, Hollywood has treated 9/11 much like it treated the Vietnam War four decades ago: largely avoiding it. While other forms of artistic expression, from music ... ...

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  • British judges advises removing kids from criminal families

    A top British judge has suggested that children of hardened criminals should be adopted at birth to save them from a life of crime. Alan Goldsack QC, the recorder of Sheffield, said drastic action was sometimes needed "because crime runs in families" and that it was "frightening" he was now seeing in his courtroom the grandchildren of criminals he prosecuted or defended 40 years ago, reported ...

  • Tony Blairs old school faces sexual abuse allegations

    British Labour Party politician Tony Blair's old school is facing sexual abuse allegations following a former pupil's claims that he was systematically abused by a long- serving headmaster. The man who is now in his 60s reported the alleged abuse to The Chorister School's current headmistress Yvette Day and to Durham Police, Daily Star reports. The man claimed that the previous head of the ...

  • R-Patz can never get over K-Stews affair

    Robert Pattinson will never get over Kristen Stewart's affair with British director Rupert Sanders last year. A source told Us Weekly magazine that the British actor broke up with the 23-year-old because he never got over the fact that she cheated him, Contactmusic reported. The source said that he is never going to forget all that and he can be very insecure and what went down last year just ...

  • UK photographer reveals private lives of strippers

    London-based photographer Bronwen Park-Rhodes's new photo series exposes the lives of strippers on their off hours. Park-Rhodes, who formed relationships with many of the women dancers during a stint DJing at strip clubs, captures the private lives of women who live with much of themselves on display in her raw and playful portraits, the Huffington Post reported. The raunchy portraits ...

  • Ex-MI6 chief says its incredibly hard to stop terror attacks

    A former head of Britain's foreign spying apparatus, MI6, has said that preventing terror attacks, including incidents like the Woolwich murder, was "incredibly hard". Richard Barrett, former head of counter-terrorism at MI6, believes there was little MI5 could have done to prevent the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Killers Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale were both known to MI5 but were ...

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