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A former taxi drivers' restroom on Gerrard Street in London's Soho was the first home to young tenor sax player Ronnie Scott's jazz club, which he founded in 1959 and hoped would rival those he'd visited on New York City's 52nd Street. By the time the...
Although Azhar, in his late 30s, is now in hiding, he continues to lead the militant group Jaish-e-Muhammad, which is opposed to Indian rule of the disputed region of Kashmir and is said to have been behind the 2004 assassination attempt of President Pervez Musharraf and several other...
A charity called Crescent Relief founded by the Raufs' father, Abdul, which collected money for last year's Pakistani earthquake relief effort, is also under the microscope. A London-based independent security analyst said money was transferred from Crescent Relief late last year into three accounts in three separate banks...
The city of Shenzhen, cradle of China's industrial revolution, is usually associated with impoverished migrant workers and cheerless gray factories churning out cheap toys, T shirts and sneakers for the world. While that gritty image represents Shenzhen's past, entrepreneur Pony Ma is a harbinger of its future. The...
DIED. Gustavo Arcos Bergnes, 79, former Fidel Castro loyalist who became disillusioned with Castro's totalitarianism and founded the illegal but influential Cuban Committee for Human Rights; in Havana. The world-renowned dissident, known as the dean of the opposition, spent years in prison for being, in Castro's words...