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Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, top left, is hugged by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.
Bombing   Libya   Lockerbie   Photos   Wikipedia: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi  
 The New York Times 
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60
| Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news agencies on Sunday, three yea... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil)
In this file photo taken Sunday, April 19, 2009, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, center, is led away after declaring he planned to challenge then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about his views on the Holocaust and Israel
Lawmaker   Legal   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Alan Dershowitz  
 The Examiner 
Dershowitz demolishes Zimmerman prosecution
| After writing in the New York Daily News that murder charges should be dropped against George Zimmerman in the slaying of Trayvon Martin, liberal law professor and author Alan Dershowitz appeared on... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus)
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York.  The Times Of India 
Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a... (photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams)
China   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Chen Guangcheng  
 Violence erupted again in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as Lendu militia, who were driven out of Bunia yesterday by rival Hema fighters, have regrouped and launched a counter-offensive to regain control of the town, the United  Al Jazeera 
Thousands flee DR Congo violence
| Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | The fighting has been most intense in the hills of the... (photo: UN)
Africa   DR Congo   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Democratic Republic of the Congo  
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The R339 road at the Prince Alfred Pass over the Langkloof Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa BBC News
South Africa targets rainbow tourists
There is arguably no worse place in the world to be gay than Africa. Today more than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalising homosexual acts and across th... (photo: Creative Commons / NJR ZA)
Africa   Market   Photos   Tourism   USA   Wikipedia: South Africa  
Building of the Supreme Court of Texas The Los Angeles Times
Court to Texas: Pay $2 million to man imprisoned for 26 years
| HOUSTON -- The Texas Supreme Court the Lone Star State to pay more than $2 million to a former inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder, a ruling that could set a... (photo: Public Domain / WhisperToMe)
Court   Photos   Supreme Court   Texas   Wikipedia: Supreme Court of Texas  
Mitt Romney town hall in Dayton, Ohi The Columbus Dispatch
Biden softens his attack on Romney, Bain Capital
| The Daily Briefing | Even before he came out in favor of same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign was benefitting from money raised by lesbian, ... (photo: Creative Commons / Terence Burlij/PBS NewsHour)
Election   Photos   Republican   Romney   Wikipedia: Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012  
File - Chinese soldiers look at cars confiscated from a company owned by fugitive smuggling suspect Lai Changxing, including a bullet-proofed Mercedes Benz, at an anti-smuggling exhibition in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004. Denver Post
China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
| BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached int... (photo: AP / Greg Baker)
China   Corruption   Crime   Photos   Wikipedia: Lai Changxing  
George Zimmerman takes the witness stand, Friday, April 20, 2012, during a bond hearing in Sanford, Fla. Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester says Zimmerman can be released on $150,000 bail as he awaits trial for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. The Los Angeles Times
Documents shed more light on Trayvon Martin shooting
ATLANTA — On the night George Zimmerman fatally shot unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, a witness said he saw some of the scuffle — and describ... (photo: AP / Orlando Sentinel, Gary W. Green, Pool)
Crime   Florida   Justice   Photos   Wikipedia: Shooting of Trayvon Martin  
Donna Summer, queen of disco, dies of cancer at 63 Austin American Statesman
Donna Summer, queen of disco, dies of cancer at 63
| Donna Summer, the multimillion-selling singer and songwriter whose hits captured both the giddy hedonism of the 1970s disco era and the feisty female solidarity of the ... (photo: WN / Aruna Gilbert)
Cancer   Donna Summer   Photos   Singer   Wikipedia: Donna Summer  
Error sees 'Butcher of Bosnia' trial suspended NZ Herald
Error sees 'Butcher of Bosnia' trial suspended
| The war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic was abruptly halted, just a day after it opened, because of prosecution "irregularities'' in the hig... (photo: UN / JC McIlwaine)
Bosnia   Crimes   Kosovo   Photos   Trial   Wikipedia: Bosnia and Herzegovina  
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