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Six men plead guilty in Britain to planning terror attack
LONDON -- Six men pleaded guilty Tuesday to planning a terrorist attack that failed only because the far-right rally they were targeting in central England ended before they arrived. Police discovered the plot after searching the men’s car...
Tags: Prosecution, Defendants, Religion and Belief, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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Getty Museum buys 'Rembrandt Laughing': tiny portrait, huge value
Stepping up the effort to strengthen its European art collection, the Getty Museum has acquired two major Old Masters paintings: an exuberant early self-portrait of Rembrandt from around 1628, and a classic scene of the Grand Canal in Venice by...
Tags: Politics, Human Accomplishments, Artists, Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust
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Salman Rushdie bequeaths 'Midnight's Children' to film
In the late 1970s, long before he penned "The Satanic Verses," before he sparked a global uproar between Islamic fundamentalists and free-speech advocates and became a marked man, before he turned into a celebrity man of letters who dates models and...
Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Literature, Cambridge (England), India, Pakistan
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Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum returns to form, with light and life
AMSTERDAM — A scrum of international TV reporters, photographers and other media packed the Gallery of Honor at the Rijksmuseum on a recent spring morning, while producers negotiated with publicists for time to shoot spots in front of Rembrandt's...
Tags: Architecture, Renovation, Western Africa, Arts and Culture, Artists
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Wilde about California
California's unchallenged reputation for attracting and embracing eccentrics of all shapes and sizes was already well established when Oscar Wilde brought his one-man traveling circus to the Bear Flag State in March 1882. Not surprisingly, he killed in...
Tags: Travel, Punishment, Trips and Vacations
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Review: Under the Italian sun, 'Love Is All You Need'
Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier's excellent tragedies tend to feature the sorts of characters and conflicts that turn up in her newest movie, "Love Is All You Need." We meet a heartbroken widower, a breast-cancer survivor, an unfaithful husband, an...
Tags: Paprika Steen, Denmark, Italy, Entertainment, Movies
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WWII poster calls for calm; now it stokes frenzy, feud
ALNWICK, England — Has a piece of advice ever seemed so apt, or so frightfully ironic? Thirteen years ago, Stuart Manley stumbled upon a slightly faded red poster tucked at the bottom of a box of books he had bought at auction. Unfolding it, he...
Tags: New Products, Oprah Winfrey, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Amazon.com Inc., Auction Service
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‘Peter Cushing: A Life in Film’ chronicles the actor’s screen legacy
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWith his new book, “Peter Cushing: A Life in Film,” out on Tuesdsay, author David Miller charts in detail the ...... -
Coachella 2013 feels something like a British re-invasion
Ten minutes into his band's performance Friday night at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, singer Damon Albarn of Blur realized he hadn't introduced himself. So after a hard-driving rendition of Blur's song "There's No Other Way," the...
Tags: Music Industry, Blur (music group), Festive Events, The Smiths (music group), Entertainment Events
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Numbers are all adding up for Manchester United
Robin Van Persie had a number in mind when he jumped from Arsenal to Manchester United last summer. And it wasn't the $70 million his new four-year contract was worth. After wearing uniform No. 9 with the Dutch national team and 10 and 11 during his...
Tags: Stock Market, Satellite and Cable Service, Cristiano Ronaldo, ESPN (tv network), General Motors Corp.
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Margaret Thatcher: The politician British pop music loved to hate
Margaret Thatcher, the so-called Iron Lady, was one of God's gifts to music. In the history of popular music, there probably never has been a head of state more reviled in song than the former Conservative Party British prime minister, who died today at...
Tags: The Clash (music group), Politics, Music Industry, Entertainment Events, United Kingdom
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French countess is key advocate for AIDS patients in Myanmar
SHWEPYITHA, Myanmar — After her heroin-addict husband died five years ago, Ei Ei Phyu discovered she was HIV-positive. She thought her life was over until friends directed her to the open-air clinic here where she receives antiretroviral medicine....
Tags: United Nations, Politics, Human Rights, HIV, Crime, Law and Justice
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