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Sailor Charged With Murder in Nuclear Sub Shooting
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- Police charged a Royal Navy sailor on Sunday with murdering an officer aboard a British nuclear-powered submarine. Able Seaman Ryan Donovan, 22, is also charged with the attempted murder of three other crew members on HMS Astute. Lt. Cmdr. Ian Molyneux, the sub's weapons engineer, was shot dead Friday while the submarine was docked in the southern English port of Southampton. Another officer was seriously wounded before the gunman was disarmed by fellow sailors and visiting dignitaries. As well as the murder charge, Donovan is charged with attempting to kill Lt. Cmdr. Christopher ...
1 Dead After Shooting Aboard UK Nuclear Sub
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- A British sailor aboard a nuclear-powered submarine allegedly shot dead a crew member and seriously wounded another Friday while the vessel was on a goodwill visit to an English port, officials said. A sailor was detained aboard HMS Astute and arrested on suspicion of murder. Police and military officials said the incident was not related to terrorism, but offered few details about what may have prompted a sailor to open fire during a tour of the submarine by local dignitaries, including the mayor of Southampton, in southern England. Britain's Press Association news agency ...
Prince William's Cousin Zara Phillips Sets Wedding Date
By Andra Varin - AOL NewsAll the talk is about Prince William and Kate Middleton, but theirs isn't the only royal wedding in the works. William's cousin Zara Phillips and her fiance, Mike Tindall, will tie the knot on July 30 in Scotland, Buckingham Palace announced today. Phillips, 29, and rugby star Tindall, 32, will trade vows at Canongate Kirk in Edinburgh. The date was fixed after another couple who had already reserved the church agreed to move their wedding, British media reports said. The reception will be held at Edinburgh's Palace of Holyroodhouse, Queen Elizabeth II's official home in Scotland. The BBC ...
William and Kate Surprise Crowd With Visit to Belfast
By not in system - AOL NewsBELFAST, Northern Ireland -- She flipped a pancake on Shrove Tuesday - and somehow it even landed back in the pan. Prince William and fiancee Kate Middleton traveled to Belfast on Tuesday, delighting a surprised but enthusiastic crowd with their first official visit to Northern Ireland before their April 29 wedding. Peter Morrison, AP Princess-to-be Kate Middleton flips a pancake at a charity event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday. Dozens of people gathered to see Middleton and Prince William in the couple's third public outing in recent weeks. Police kept watch from the ...
Mom Admits Fatally Stabbing Her 3 Kids
By not in system - AOL NewsAn American woman admitted today in a Scottish court that she stabbed her three young children to death while embroiled in a custody dispute with their father. Theresa Riggi, 47, appeared at the High Court in Edinburgh, where she pleaded guilty to charges of culpable homicide, the Scottish equivalent of manslaughter, on the grounds of diminished responsibility, according to British media reports. She was originally charged with murder. Grampian Police / AP Theresa Riggi is shown in an undated image with her three children. She has admitted stabbing them to death. Police went to ...
Report: Lockerbie Bomber 'Blackmailed' Gadhafi
By not in system - AOL NewsLONDON -- The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing had blackmailed Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi into securing his release by threatening to expose his role in the attack, the former Libyan justice minister was quoted as saying Sunday. The Sunday Times newspaper quoted Mustafa Abdel-Jalil as saying that Abdel Baset al-Megrahi had warned Gadhafi that he would "reveal everything" about the 1988 bombing of an American flight over Lockerbie, Scotland, if he wasn't rescued from a Scottish prison. Abdel-Jalil told a Swedish tabloid Wednesday that he had proof Gadhafi had personally ordered the ...
Prince William and Kate Middleton Return to University Where They Fell in Love [VIDEO]
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Mystery Photo of 'English Loch Ness Monster' Taken in Bowness
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsIf a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words do you suppose will be used to describe the first-ever image captured of "Bow-Nessie," a lake monster that reportedly lives in England? Last week, two kayakers were nearly frightened out of their canoe when they spotted a large, hump-backed shape emerge from Lake Windermere, near Bowness in Cumbria, The Westmorland Gazette reports. "At a distance, I thought it was some sort of large dog. Then I realized just how long it was. There was no way a dog would be out that far in any case," said Tom Pickles, adding that the supposed creature was ...
WikiLeaks: UK Advised Libya on How to Free Lockerbie Bomber
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- The British government secretly advised Libya on how to secure the early release of Lockerbie plane bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, according to leaked diplomatic papers from the U.S. Embassy in London. The documents also suggest that Prince Andrew, the fourth in line to the throne, played a behind-the-scenes role in obtaining the former Libyan intelligence officer's freedom. One diplomatic dispatch, obtained by the WikiLeaks website and published today in the British newspaper The Telegraph, states that within a week of Megrahi being diagnosed with "inoperable and ...
Climber Survives 1,000-Foot Fall Down Scottish Mountain
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- As Adam Potter hiked along the snow-blown summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor in the Scottish Highlands on Saturday, he stopped to offer his three mountain climbing companions some smart advice. "It was icy, snowy, and we got to a point where I said, 'OK, let's put on our crampons on and get our axes out now, just in case,'" he told Scotland's Daily Record newspaper. Potter indicated the group should get their gear out behind a rock some 15 feet away. Potter, 32, never made it to the boulder. After walking a few paces, his feet suddenly slipped out from under him, sending him sliding ...
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