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...says Abu Yahya, 28, a British-born veteran of training camps in Afghanistan and one of the leaders of this Islamist group, "the men are magnificent." He professes equal admiration for two others, both acquaintances: Omar Khan Sharif, one of the two British suicide bombers who blew up a crowded Tel Aviv bar last April, and Omar Saeed Sheik, the British citizen accused of murdering journalist Daniel Pearl...
Gerald Stanley Hawkins, a British-born astronomer who taught at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories and first theorized that Stonehenge was created by Neolithic people to track solar and lunar movements, died May 26 at his farm in Virginia...
CELEBRATED. BOB HOPE, legendary funnyman of stage and screen; his 100th birthday; in Los Angeles. British-born Hope, who began his career in vaudeville, has acted in more than 50 movies, anchored scores of TV shows and entertained millions of American troops posted overseas. In the U.S., Hope's becoming a centenarian will be commemorated over an entire year with exhibitions, stage performances and TV and movie specials. Ahead of his May 29 birthday, the comedian was reported to have quipped, "I'm so old, they've canceled my blood type...
...Americana," Ustinov says. "The empires are very close to each other - the eagle, the legions, the respect for the flag. That's why Americans make the best Roman films." American hegemony is just one of a multitude of topics on which Ustinov is happy to expound. The British-born son of a French mother and a half-German, half-Russian father (who had an Ethiopian grandmother to boot), his cosmopolitan origins and a lifetime of hobnobbing with the high and mighty have turned him into a consummate, and well-connected, pundit. His work as a U.N. goodwill ambassador...
...they suspected the Dimasa Halam Dago, a group that is fighting for a separate homeland in central Assam. In the neighboring Cachar district the United Liberation Front of Assam claimed to have killed eight soldiers and injured 15 in an earlier attack. PAKISTAN Killers Appeal A lawyer for the British-born militant sentenced to death for the kidnap and murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl filed an apeal challenging his conviction. After a trial held in secret, an antiterrorism court in Hyderabad sentenced Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh to death by hanging. Sheikh's lawyer, Abdul Waheed Katpar, said the verdict...