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CONVICTED. ABDELBASET ALI MOHMED AL MEGRAHI, 48, one of two defendants in the murder trial over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270; in Camp Zeist, the Netherlands. After a nine-month trial, three Scottish judges delivered a split verdict, sentencing Megrahi to life imprisonment for bombing the U.S. airliner while acquitting co-defendant Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, 44. The verdicts ended a decade-long struggle between the West and Libya, though Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer, was tried as an individual...
ADDED VALUE Are you on statin drugs to lower your cholesterol? Here are benefits you probably never counted on. A Scottish study shows that Pravachol, one brand of statin, reduces the risk of developing diabetes 30%. And a study of heart-attack survivors finds that Pravachol reduces the odds of stroke 20%. No, it's not time to add statins to the drinking water. They need to be taken every day for life, and they carry risks--including liver damage...
...NETHERLANDS Lockerbie Appeal Five Scottish judges began hearing an appeal by the man convicted of planting the bomb that killed 259 people aboard a Pan Am flight in 1988. Lawyers for Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi told the special court at Camp Zeist that new evidence would "tear holes" in the ruling, which jailed al-Megrahi for 20 years. They said statements from a security guard at London's Heathrow Airport showed that the bomb could have originated there, and that the trial judges had erred in relying on the evidence of a Maltese shopkeeper who identified the accused...
...quite a shock to render bright red a man married to Madonna, but Ritchie collects himself quickly. "Isn't he a gent?" says Ritchie, who must be used to days far stranger than this. Last month Ritchie wed Penn's ex during a five-day celebration in a remote Scottish castle. Ritchie, 32, the father of Madonna's second child, Rocco, calls the nuptials "the best five days of my life," though it was preceded by months in a burning media spotlight. Tabloids excitedly chronicled HER PLOT TO GET TOYBOY LOVER TO ALTAR. Paparazzi stalked them in Greece...
...love festivals because you get to see all these different acts in one place that may not have any musical similarities," he says. He then talks, with animation, about a festival he attended in which Roni Size, the drum 'n' bass artist, and Travis, the Scottish rock band, were on the same bill...