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...from equipment imported onto the Natanz site, and says it will discuss letting the U.N. conduct snap inspections. Souvenir Hunters THE U.K. Thieves posing as tourists made off with a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece worth around $50 million. The work, Madonna of the Yarnwinder, hung in the stairway of Scotland's Drumlanrig Castle. Insurers put up a $160,000 reward for the recovery of the work. Deep Disaster RUSSIA An aging Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, with the loss of up to 9 of its 10 crew members. The vessel was being towed to a scrapyard when...
Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi agreed last week to pay up to $5 million to relatives of each of the 270 victims of Pan Am Flight 103, downed over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. He also sent a statement to the U.N. Security Council in which his country renounced terrorism and accepted responsibility for the actions of a Libyan spy found guilty of blowing up the aircraft. A U.S.-backed agreement calls on the U.N. to permanently lift sanctions on Libya, which were suspended in 1999 after Gaddafi handed over two suspects...
...Muammar Gaddafi finally ready to make amends? In an interview with TIME, the Libyan ruler said his country will accept responsibility under international law for the 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed 270 people. In exchange for Libya's admission and payments of $2.7 billion to the families of victims, he said, the U.N. sanctions that have blocked the world from doing business with Libya would be lifted - and eventually the U.S. would end its own sanctions and remove Libya from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. But the ever-erratic ruler...
...part of it. British club Manchester United, probably the most valuable sports franchise in the world (about $1 billion), has planted its flag in America during a four-city exhibition tour that saw Man U matched against some of Europe's glamour teams, including Glasgow Celtic from Scotland (a 4-0 win), and Juventus from Italy (4-1). According to promoters, it took only one hour for Man U to sell out its Aug. 3 game against Barcelona at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field. Likewise for its Giants Stadium appearance against Juventus. All this without the flamboyantly blond David Beckham...
...wrestled to the ground a meter away from him. He maintains that security was "well handled" by Australian police. February 1994 American prankster James Miller paraglides onto the roof of Buckingham Palace, then strips to reveal that below the waist he's wearing only a coat of green paint. Scotland Yard say the incident doesn't raise concerns over security, as he was arrested "within minutes." December 2002 A drunken reveler gets into St. James's Palace - the home of Prince Charles - but is reportedly only arrested when he knocks on the door to Princess Anne's apartments...