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April 17, 2013
9:00 pm

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Britain’s Iron Lady laid to rest with full pomp

Security at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral stepped up in wake of Boston bombings; service for trailblazing, divisive British leader proceeds without trouble

By Cassandra Vinograd and Jill Lawless

January 22, 2013
2:11 am

Britain's Prince Harry talks to a TV crew on Dec. 12, 2012 after making his early morning pre-flight checks on his Apache helicopter, from Camp Bastion, southern Afghanistan. (photo credit: John Stillwell/AP)

Prince Harry returns from Afghanistan, says he killed Taliban

Third in line to British throne talks of taking ‘bad guys’ out of the game, says he’s ‘just one of the guys’ in the army

By Jill Lawless

July 13, 2012
9:37 pm

This photo released by the Gielgud Theatre, London on Thursday July 12, shows Jack Lowden as Eric Liddell, left, and James McArdle as Harold Abrahams in the Gielgud Theatre production of Chariots of Fire. (photo credit: AP/Hugo Glendenning, Gielgud Theatre)

‘Chariots of Fire’ lets Brits relive Olympic ideal

Film that tells of a Jewish sprinter’s struggle to overcome anti-Semitism in 1924 Paris Games is being re-released in cinemas as an adaptation comes to the stage

By Jill Lawless

May 26, 2012
4:50 am

Director Bernard-Henry Levy, centre, flanked by two unidentified persons wearing Syrian flags pose during a photo call for The Oath of Tobruk at the 65th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Friday. (photo credit: AP)

Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet

Movies from Egypt and Syria, and Bernard-Henri Levy’s film on Libya uprising screened; ‘Arab cinema is trying to liberate itself,’ says Egyptian director

By Jill Lawless

March 10, 2012
1:52 pm

Robert B. Sherman at the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London in 2004, dedicating his painting 'Sacrifice'. (photo credit: courtesy)

Farewell to the composer who gave us ‘Supercalifragilistic-expialidocious’

Robert Sherman, one of the first US soldiers in Dachau, and his brother Richard composed scores for films including ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’

By Jill Lawless and Mark Kennedy

February 17, 2012
9:35 pm

Charlie Chaplin in his youth in the US. (Photo credit: Public Domain)

Charlie Chaplin or Israel Thornstein? A mystery even in modern times

The entertainer was widely assumed to be Jewish. He did little to correct the record. And Britain’s spies never solved the riddle of his origins, newly released files show

By Jill Lawless