This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 14, 2010
Soldiers who shot civilians on Bloody Sunday should be prosecuted but spared prison, victims’ families said last night ahead of publication of a report which will accuse the Army of unlawful killing.
The long-awaited findings of the Saville Inquiry into the deaths of 13 civil rights marchers in Londonderry on January 30 1972 are expected to exonerate the dead of involvement in violence.
The inquiry will repudiate allegations in the now-discredited Widgery report, carr
Source: AP
Jun 14, 2010
Egypt's massive new museum for its famous antiquities now has a power plant, a fire station and its own conservation center, and over the next two years it will become home to some 100,000 artifacts, officials said Monday.
A partial opening for the 120-acre museum complex, which will house King Tutankhamun's famed mummy and golden burial effects and a replica of his tomb, is set for the fall of 2012.
Plans for the museum, which will replace the century-old building visi
Source: AP
Jun 14, 2010
A stone sculpture of a woman's head by Amedeo Modigliani sold for $52.8 million at a Paris auction Monday, setting a record for the artist.
The piece, dated from between 1910 and 1912, was estimated to fetch between $6-$9 million, excluding fees. The sale price included fees.
The 26-inch head was part of an art collection owned by French businessman Gaston Levy, who founded the Monoprix chain of grocery and department stores and lived from 1893 to 1977. Shown for the fi
Source: CNN
Jun 14, 2010
There haven't been many times when I have been at a loss for words when conducting an interview as a medical reporter. This was one of those moments.
The man cleared his throat, after ignoring the question I just asked him. "You want to know what I think?" he said loudly.
"I do," I replied.
"Is that what this is about -- you want to know how I really feel, what makes me tick?" he said even louder.
I nodded as calml
Source: BBC News
Jun 14, 2010
Jimmy Dean, the country singer who had a big hit with Big Bad John, has died at the age of 81.
His wife, Donna Meade Dean, said her husband passed away at their home in Virginia in the US.
"He was amazing. He had a lot of talents," she said of the singer, who starred in The Jimmy Dean Show in the 1950s.
In 1969, Dean went into the sausage business, starting the successful Jimmy Dean Meat Company.
Muppet Show
The Texan-born sing
Source: BBC Earth News
Jun 14, 2010
Palaeontologists have discovered two mammal hairs encased in 100 million-year-old amber.
While older 2D fossilised hairs are known, those preserved in the amber are the oldest 3D specimens known.
The hairs, found alongside a fly pupa in amber uncovered in southwest France, are remarkably similar to hair found on modern mammals.
That implies that the shape and structure of mammal hair has remained unchanged over a vast period of time....
Source: BBC News
Jun 14, 2010
The FBI has released most of its secret files on the late Senator Edward Kennedy.
Most of the documents relate to death threats made against Senator Kennedy, the Associated Press agency reports.
The files will be scrutinised for details about the senator's controversial car accident in Chappaquiddick, in which a female passenger was killed.
Senator Kennedy died in August 2009, aged 77, after battling brain cancer.
He was the last surviving brot
Source: BBC News
Jun 14, 2010
US President Barack Obama has said the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US psyche as 9/11.
In an interview with US website Politico, he said the disaster would "shape how we think about the environment... for years to come".
Mr Obama has arrived in Mississippi on his fourth visit to the affected area. He will also visit Alabama and Florida.
Directors of oil firm BP are to meet to decide whether to suspend dividen
Source: WaPo
Jun 14, 2010
A rare original printing of the Declaration of Independence is visiting Maryland for the first time to help kick of the National History Day competitions....
Thousands of middle and high school students and teachers from across the country will get a chance to see the document Monday at the University of Maryland. They're gathering in College Park for the weeklong National History Day competitions.
Source: Fox News
Jun 13, 2010
The Fremont County Coroner's Office is sending skeletal remains thought to be of prehistoric origin to the University of Wyoming anthropology department for examination.
A maintenance worker found the bones while digging along a trail at the Central Wyoming College field station in Sinks Canyon near Lander....
Source: Guardian (UK)
Jun 13, 2010
The Terezín ghetto near Prague was home to a remarkable array of renowned Czech musicians, composers and theatrical artists, writing and performing as they and their fellow Jewish inmates awaited an unknown fate in Auschwitz. Ahead of a London concert to commemorate their lives and work, Ed Vulliamy talks to some of the survivors who remembered them
The drawing shows a performance by a string trio, to a small audience. A suited man rests his head on one hand, his left elbow on the a
Source: BBC
Jun 13, 2010
The Secretary of State said he is hopeful that something constructive will emerge from Lord Saville's long awaited report on Bloody Sunday.
The report into the killings of 13 people in 1972 is due to be published on Tuesday.
The report took 12 years to compile, at a cost of almost £200m.
Owen Paterson said people should stop speculating and take the time needed to digest the report when it is published....
Source: BBC
Jun 13, 2010
The government considered denying North Korea visas to attend the 1966 World Cup, official documents have revealed.
The UK feared the presence of communist North Korea at the finals in England could cause diplomatic shockwaves.
But denying the squad entry could prompt the "disaster" of a relocated World Cup, warned a Foreign Office memo now released by the National Archives.
At the time the UK did not officially recognise the state that had pro
Source: Telegraph (UK)
Jun 13, 2010
Victorian censors painted over a beautiful Renaissance picture of a girl to make her look less sultry, experts have discovered.
Scientists working at the National Gallery found that Woman at a Window, a painting of a girl with neat dark hair and a steady gaze, contained a secret.
Hidden under layers of varnish and paint was the original painting of the same woman, only this time she has a suggestive sideways glance and was dressed in a more revealing bodice.
Source: AP
Jun 13, 2010
A Slovenian student who was captured, tortured and killed by communists during World War II was beatified on Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI's state secretary at a Mass attended by thousands.
Lojze Grozde, who died at the age of 20, is the first beatified martyr in the predominantly Roman Catholic country where the church was long suppressed.
Grozde, a high school student, was captured in Jan. 1943, when Slovenia was occupied by Italy and Germany. Communist-run antifascist
Source: AP
Jun 13, 2010
...If confirmed by the Senate as a justice, Kagan would have to sit out high court review of the government's decade-old racketeering lawsuit against cigarette makers. That's because she already has taken sides as solicitor general, signing the Obama administration's Supreme Court brief in the case — an automatic disqualifier.
Kagan is expected to step aside from 11 of the 24 cases the court has so far agreed to hear beginning in October.
A justice's decision not to par
Source: AP
Jun 12, 2010
You can tell your kids how easy they have it, and maybe they'll listen for awhile. But to prove how simple it is to wash dishes or clothes in the 21st century, try showing them how pioneer children did it as they crossed the United States in the westward migration.
Before doing the dishes, they had to find water and heat it up on a fire. Washing clothes often meant handling caustic lye soap. Kids crossing the continent in the mid-19th century often had roles and responsibilities tha
Source: BBC News
Jun 12, 2010
A decision to name part of a military base in the Vale of Glamorgan after Winston Churchill has been criticised by a community council.
Llanmaes council say it is wrong to name the St Athan site in honour of the wartime prime minister because he sent troops to intervene in a south Wales miners' dispute in 1910.
The strike led to violent outbreaks known as the Tonypandy riots.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) plans to name St Athan's West Camp Churchill Lines..
Source: BBC
Jun 12, 2010
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has urged the UN Security Council to push for the arrest of two Sudanese men indicted for war crimes in Darfur.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Khartoum had failed to apprehend former minister Ahmed Haroun and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb.
The two men were indicted by the ICC in 2007 for war crimes and crimess against humanity....
Source: BBC
Jun 12, 2010
Sporadic demonstrations in Tehran and other Iranian cities have been reported on the anniversary of the disputed presidential election.
A massive security presence prevented any larger gatherings to protest at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.
Opposition leaders earlier called off protests, saying they did not want to cause the loss of innocent lives.
The BBC's Tehran correspondent says the day has left the opposition once again with no sense of directi
