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...engineer on suspicion of attempting to strike Glasgow's airport with a car containing propane-gas canisters. This has challenged the stereotype of jihadis as disenfranchised madrasah students, presenting Europe with a troubling question: Why would those who have made a success of their professional lives be drawn to violent extremism...
Because so many unofficial lines of authority have been drawn, some neighborhood residents say they feel like they are a country away from friends and neighbors on the other side of Baghdad. "I want to feel like I'm in one Iraq - with one army, one security force - not these different groups," says Sabeha Hassun, who owns a shop selling women's beauty and clothing supplies just up the street from an American military outpost where a double murder - of CLC members - happened in broad daylight last week...
...European teams that dominate the global game today. Gone are the days when the African Cup boasted a couple of giants such as George Weah or Roger Milla, surrounded by a gaggle of talented but raw prospects. This year, 143 of the 368 players at CAN are drawn from elite European clubs, including such contemporary legends as Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon) and Yaya Toure (Ivory Coast); Chelsea's Didier Drogba, Solomon Kalou (both Ivory Coast) and Michael Essien (Ghana), and Real Madrid's Mamadou Diarra (Mali...
...Khattab in May 2003 at their house in Baghdad, just weeks after U.S. soldiers had swept into the capital. Her British-educated husband Omar worked for TIME as an office manager and translator, and he brought me to meet his family. Faeza, a computer engineer, had never been drawn to housework. Before the war, when she wasn't programming computers at the Baghdad airport, she was swimming laps at the élite Hunting Club. Life wasn't always good in Saddam's Iraq, but for Faeza, it was relatively easy...
...used to crossing paths with celebrities. But on Wednesday they grieved for one. Neighbors and fans erected a makeshift memorial outside the apartment building in which Heath Ledger was found dead on Tuesday afternoon. Among about a dozen bouquets of flowers, handwritten notes and flickering candles stood a hand-drawn portrait of the square-jawed actor, a cigarette jutting from his lips, reminiscent of James Dean, a Hollywood legend who also died young and famous. Ledger was at a point in his career where he had graduated from heartthrob (A Knight's Tale) to serious screen actor (Brokeback Mountain) when...