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...Northern Ireland's police force was a primary target for the Provisional IRA during the Troubles. Overwhelmingly Protestant in its membership, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was detested by many Catholics, with the staunchest republican neighborhoods effectively becoming no-go areas for RUC officers. Over 300 policemen and women were murdered during Northern Ireland's 30-year conflict. (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...
...story about the generation gap in Tibet's royal family...
...years in prison for fraud, attempted fraud and attempted blackmail. Sgarbi confessed that not only did he dine, bewitch and bed a number of married women, but tricked them into paying him to keep quiet. In two cases, he confessed, he used blackmail to extract money. (Read: "The Royal Blackmail Mystery...
...years last quarter, will be able to boost its domestic demand through short-term spending enough to mitigate steep declines in global trade. "The idea that China will be helping the rest of the world is a myth," says Ben Simpfendorfer, a Hong Kong-based China economist for the Royal Bank of Scotland. "Almost half of what it imports is related to export processing. A large share of the remainder is commodities. It imports little for its own consumption. That befits its status as the world's largest manufacturing center...
...British media are speculating that Jackson, who has been staying at the $11,000-a-night Royal Suite at the Lanesborough Hotel, is staging this comeback - for which tickets go on sale on March 13 - to help pay off the debts he has incurred since a court cleared him of sexual-abuse charges in June 2005. (He hasn't performed a full concert since then.) In November 2008 the singer reached an undisclosed settlement with Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the prince of Bahrain, who was suing Jackson for $7 million over claims he reneged on a contract...