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LONDON—When I touched down in Heathrow Airport for a summer internship with a member of Parliament, I had every intention of learning the ins-and-outs of British politics. Sure, I expected a fresh perspective on the hot issues back home such as corporate scandal, dirty money in Washington and the pending invasion of Iraq. But I believed that such lessons would take place in the background. After all, I was in another country, and it seemed only fitting to immerse myself in native concerns while I had the chance...
...series. The books offer readers a vivid, violent and utterly detailed description of just what happens to those who are left behind on earth to fight the Antichrist after Jesus raptures, or lifts, the faithful up to heaven. At the start of Book 1, on a 747 bound for Heathrow from Chicago, the flight attendants suddenly find about half the seats empty, except for the clothes and wedding rings and dental fillings of the believers who have suddenly been swept up to heaven. Down on the ground, cars are crashing, husbands are waking up to find only a nightgown...
...upscale. Cathay's second airport lounge, The Pier, at the Hong Kong International Airport offers showers, a well-equipped business center and a complimentary bar boasting a spectacular view of one of the world's busiest runways. Virgin offers door-to-door limo service and for passengers going through Heathrow, an optional stop at the Virgin Touch Salon for a postflight facial and hairstyling...
...NETHERLANDS New Evidence Five judges in the Lockerbie appeal case heard new evidence that lawyers say casts doubt on the conviction of a Libyan for the downing of a Pan Am airliner over Scotland in 1988. A former security guard at Heathrow Airport said that he discovered a break-in at the restricted baggage area about 18 hours before the New York-bound flight took off from London. One of the appeal judges agreed earlier that the bomb that downed the plane, killing 270 people, may not have been loaded in Malta as argued in the original trial...
Arrested at London's Heathrow Airport last February, he is in custody fighting extradition to the U.S., where he was indicted in August for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and providing money, safe houses and other material support to terrorists. He is alleged to have been the handler of fellow Algerian Ahmed Ressam, an operative living in Montreal who was arrested in December 1999 while trying to cross the U.S.-Canadian border in a rental car filled with homemade explosives; in April, Ressam was convicted of plotting to blow up lax on New Year's Eve. Italian antiterrorist police believe...