Archive for March, 2010

Four Convicted in Heathrow Heist

ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON?Four armed robbers were convicted Wednesday of stealing £1.75 million ($2.6 million) from a warehouse at Heathrow Airport, in the first serious criminal trial in England and Wales heard without a jury.
Judge Colman Treacy found John Twomey, Peter Blake, Barry Hibberd and Glenn Cameron guilty of robbery and possession of firearms over [...]

Portrait Emerges of Militia Chief

By ALEX P. KELLOGG, LAUREN ETTER, KEITH JOHNSON and TIMOTHY W. MARTIN
The leader of a Michigan militia group charged this week with conspiring to kill law-enforcement officers was described Tuesday as a private, family-oriented man who nurtured a festering mistrust of governmental authority, according to people close to the family.
“On the inside of this man’s [...]

BP Aims to Revive Iraq’s Oil

BY RUSSELL GOLD

BP PLC Tuesday awarded $500 million in contracts to drill wells in Iraq’s giant Rumaila oil field, the first step in a mammoth initiative by foreign oil companies to revive the country’s energy industry.
If successful, the effort at Rumaila and several other fields near Basra could be one of the largest expansions [...]

Yugoslav Internet Domain Name ‘.yu’ Finally Discontinued

The Serbian National Register for Internet Domain Names has announced that after 21 years, the Internet website domain “.yu” — representing the former Yugoslavia — has become obsolete and been discontinued.
The group announced on its website that some 4,000 sites with the “.yu” domain name were shut down on March 30.
It said most of [...]