Dutch Court Clears Way for Young Sailor's Solo Trip The New York Times | Filed at 10:39 a.m. ET | MIDDELBURG, Netherlands (AP) -- A Dutch court cleared the way Tuesday for 14-year-old Laura Dekker to embark on a risky attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, an adventure that could begin in the next two weeks. | Judges at Middelburg's family...
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16,000 deaths, 19 years in jail - fury greets sentence for Pol Pot's executioner The Independent | It was 9.53am when the curtain in front of the glass-enclosed court chamber finally swept back. When it did, it revealed Kaing Guek Eav, once head of the Khmer Rouge's most notorious jail, sitting at a bench, his face expressionless, and dressed in a crisp blue shirt with grey trousers pulled up u...
Mysteries and Obscurities, Many by Ghosts The New York Times | Lately it’s been too hot to think, never mind schlep around Chelsea, though a large summer group show at David Zwirner called “The Evryali Score” has made such exertions worthwhile. David Zwirner, New York | Joe Jones’s “Jazz ...
Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity Kansas City Star Josh Reynolds In this July 2, 2010 photo, competitive lockpicker Schuyler Towne sorts through a variety of locks that his students will attempt to pick during a competitive lockpicking class he leads in Somerville, Mass. More News | Schuyler Towne to...
Competitive lockpicking growing in U.S. popularity Houston Chronicle | SOMERVILLE, Mass. - Schuyler Towne took a gleaming brass lock, inserted a small bent piece of flat steel into the keyhole and gently applied finger pressure. Then he slid in a lockpick and manipulated the mechanism until it swung open. | In less th...
Locksport: Competitive Lockpicking Growing In U.S. Popularity Huffington Post | SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Schuyler Towne took a gleaming brass lock, inserted a small bent piece of flat steel into the keyhole and gently applied finger pressure. Then he slid in a lockpick and manipulated the mechanism until it swung open. | In l...
World Court to Rule on Kosovo Independence The New York Times | Filed at 11:12 a.m. ET | THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The United Nations' highest court is issuing an advisory opinion Thursday on whether Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independ...
War crimes retrial for ex-Kosovo PM Al Jazeera | A UN war crimes court has ordered the former prime minister of Kosovo to face a retrial two years after he was acquitted on charges of murder, torture and rape. | The presid...
Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity Breitbart | In this July 2, 2010 photo, competitive lockpicker Schuyler Towne sorts... | In this July 2, 2010 photo, competitive lockpicker Schuyler Towne, center,... | In this July 2, 2010 photo, a student attempts to pick a lock under the... | SOMERVILLE, Ma...
Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity The Miami Herald | SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- Schuyler Towne took a gleaming brass lock, inserted a small bent piece of flat steel into the keyhole and gently applied finger pressure. Then he slid in a lockpick and manipulated the mechanism until it swung open. | In less t...
BP denies CEO leaving as it readies $7 bn in assets sales The Times Of India LONDON/HOUSTON: BP Plc on Wednesday denied a report its heavily criticized chief executive would soon leave, after the company lined up $7 billion in asset sales to help pay for the worst oil spill in US history. | CEO Tony Hayward had the full support of the board and would stay in office, a BP spokesman told Reuters, dismissing a report in the Ti...
Qaeda's Zawahri condemns France, Yemen clerics - Web The Star | DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader condemned a French move to ban Islamic face veils and urged Yemeni clerics to call for jihad against an alleged U.S. intervention in Yemen, in an Internet message posted on Tuesday. | Ayman al-Zawahri said in the audio recording that a bill passed by French lawmakers which could fine women for appearing i...
