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Throughout the torturous official investigation into the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal on May 3, 2007, her parents, Kate and Gerry, have learned of their status in the ordeal from anonymous leaks rather than through official channels. That precedent held again Monday night: unconfirmed reports from Portuguese media claim that police are closing the case and abandoning any plans to charge the McCanns with Madeleine's disappearance...
...March, the McCanns won a $1.1 million libel suit against Express Newspapers, whose British tabloid titles include the Daily Star and the Daily Express, after the newspapers ran outlandish articles with headlines such as "Find the Body or McCanns Will Escape" and "Syringe that 'Knocked Out Maddie' Found...
...information to lie on a shelf somewhere gathering dust," Mitchell said. "Surely it's only humane and decent that information that could help find Madeleine comes to the investigators who will keep looking for her even if the police feel they can't." The McCanns will appear in a British High Court on July 7 to request that police files be released...
...British expert Juliet Bareau-Wilson, who had also helped with the painting's restoration, reaped the whirlwind when she told an interviewer that "The Colossus was not Goya's work. "We were attacked by the press," says Mena, "by academics defending traditional interpretations, by nationalists for whom Goya was Spain's somber bullfighter, by political liberals for whom Goya was a revolutionary who stood against Napoleon. I understood something of what religious persecution is like...
...Jantar Mantar, an 18th century astronomical observatory that has become the unlikely hub of sundry protests in India's capital. Along the way, they were joined by NGO workers and advocates of all causes, droves of tourists and resident expatriates, and a handful of curious onlookers, all shouting "British Law Quit India!" They were evoking the famous slogan from India's freedom struggle, but referring here to Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which was introduced by the British to criminalize sexual acts "against the order of nature." Perhaps even more unexpectedly, few marchers wore masks - which the organizers...