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Following on the heels of an unprecedented mass trial of 100 opposition figures a week ago, Saturday's session at Tehran's Revolutionary Court focused on the British embassy's chief political analyst, Hossein Rassam; a local staff member of the French embassy, Nazak Afshar; and a 24-year-old French teacher, Clotilde Reisse, who was working and studying in Isfahan, according to IRNA, Iran's official news agency. In a vague and rambling indictment, the three were charged with espionage and "acting against the national security," and for inciting "riots." It went on to blame a litany of Western...
There were downsides to having a high profile. In 1981 a group of bounty hunters kidnapped Biggs, sneaked him into Barbados and asked the British government for a reward. But Barbados did not have an extradition treaty with the U.K., and Biggs again escaped justice...
...after 13,068 days on the run, Biggs returned to Britain on a chartered plane paid for by British tabloid the Sun. Having suffered a series of heart attacks, Biggs reportedly returned seeking medical attention. However, through his son he told reporters that he returned to spend his final days in his native land. "My last wish is to walk into a Margate pub as an Englishman and buy a pint of bitter...
...well as its street artists, albeit in furtive and risky situations. Graffitists hurriedly stencil their graphics in out-of-the-way alleys (for example, to mock the regime's insistence that foreign agents helped foment the street protests, a noted brother duo sprayed "God Save the Sk8" against a British flag). Break dancers and techno producers must be content performing in cramped basements and villas outside the capital. Nonetheless, the mere existence of these cultural jammers is a form of protest...
...average across Britain's banks is 2.4%.) Plans to split the bank into its "good" and "bad" halves - savers' deposits and new lending in the former, existing loans in the latter, as a prelude to reprivatization - still await the E.U.'s stamp of approval. (Watch an interview with British PM Gordon Brown...