LONDON – A controversial woman attorney has earned 4.5 million pounds from British taxpayers by defending terrorists, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. The payout to Mercedes -driving Mudassar Arani, 45, – who represented three of the 21/7 bomb plotters – billed taxpayers almost one million pounds in the last year alone, The [...]
LONDON – Peter Crouch will have a medical today before sealing a 13 million pound return to Tottenham. According to The Sun, Crouch, 28, will be reunited with Spurs boss Harry Redknapp for the fourth time in his career on wages in excess of 70,000-pounds-a-week. The 6ft 7in striker – who was a [...]
Executives working in China say the pursuit of personal connections can often lead to karaoke parlours and other uncharted territory for Western business people.“Chinese business is often done on the basis of trust,” said Paula Beroza, a founder of investment firm Sierra Asia Partners in Shanghai.“The evening entertainment of drinking and karaoke is a way [...]
And what a story it is. I meet her in an expensive central London hotel to discuss her book, Try Me, published this week an autobiography that shocks, appals, sucks one into its consistently amoral world and then spits one out at the end dry-mouthed.…In London in 2005 she was sentenced to three years [...]
New Zealander Logan Campbell has opened a “high-class gentleman’s club” to finance his bid to compete at the London Olympics.The 23-year-old taekwondo competitor, who finished in the top 16 in the featherweight division in Beijing last year, was in danger of missing out on the 2012 Games due to lack of funding.Campbell’s Beijing campaign cost [...]
Three francs to see the beast! The Hottentot Venus was used as an alibi to show “the superiority of the white man.” Nicknamed The Hottentot Venus and displayed at circuses, fairs, private parties and public exhibitions, Saartjie Baartman, satisfied all the wildest fantasies of the European conqueror and “civilizer.” “Upon her arrival in London, a [...]
HT Cadbury-Brown HT CADBURY-BROWN, the architect who died on July 8 aged 96, was one of the last survivors of the design team for the 1951 Festival of Britain on London’s South Bank, and was responsible for two of the festival pavilions and for the layout of [...]
Serafina’s rage at being torn from a pending marriage consumes her as she faces a lifetime of exile as a nun. Like so many nobles of their time, her parents can afford to marry off only one daughter, her sister. So Serafina is sent to marry Christ for a much lesser price. And she’s not [...]
LONDON – After weeks of excruciating disclosures about Silvio Berlusconi’s private life, the Italian leader is apparently trying to restore his dignity by planning a “sober summer”. Berlusconi, whose reputation was tainted when an alleged postcoital conversation of him was captured on tape by escort girl Patrizia D’Addario, wants to put the sex scandal [...]
Many were talented — in learning, in the arts, in fine handicrafts. Convent life gave some nuns the freedom to develop their skills in ways they never could have within the bounds of traditional marriage. At the same time, “reform” movements within the Catholic Church designed to brutally restrict nuns’ engagement with the outside world [...]