Some underworld figures whose stories will be told when Las Vegas opens its mob museum:Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.Pioneered Las Vegas as America's glamorous gambling capital, opening the lavish Flamin...
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Baby-faced author Vikram Chandra, in brown V-neck sweater and sipping a skimmed latte, does not immediately strike you as a guy who has spent most of the past decade hanging out with gangsters.Nor ...
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Archaeologists in Mexico City announced plans Friday to hold tours of inaccessible buried ruins via glass-covered shafts looking down on the sites.Two daylong guided tours of the sites, known as "a...
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A court on Wednesday condemned a former lawmaker to death for his role in a 1994 murder of a government official, the first time a member of India's parliament has received a capital sentence.Anand...
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Berlin (dpa) - It's called the Teufelsberg - Devil's Mountain -
and after World War II it became the loftiest man-made hilltop in
Berlin, when 16 million square metres of ru...
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Podgorica (dpa) - Police in Montenegro were on Wednesday hunting
three assailants who attacked and beat a well-known author the
previous evening, killing his bodyguard.
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New Delhi (dpa) - In the first sentences handed out by India's
special court trying the 1993 Mumbai serial bombings case, five
fishermen were sentenced Friday to three years...
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Amsterdam (dpa) - One of the most drama-packed cases in Dutch
legal history concluded Friday with the sentencing to nine years'
imprisonment of crime boss Willem Holleeder, ...
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Some major attacks in India, many blamed on Islamic militants opposed to Indian rule in Kashmir:_ July 2006: Coordinated bombings on Mumbai commuter trains kill more than 200 people and injure hund...
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Underworld figures at Vegas mob museum
