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Wilson Kipsang of Kenya celebrates his win as he crosses the finish line during the London Marathon in London, Sunday, April 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Wilson Kipsang wins his 2nd London Marathon

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

In this undated handout photo provided by the Almeida Theatre on Friday, April 11, 2014, actress Katie Brayben is seen wearing a mask that depicts Britain's Prince Charles during a scene from the play 'King Charles III' at the Almeida Theatre in London. A new play about Britain's future king is getting rave reviews. Once it would have been theatrical treason. &quot;King Charles III&quot; imagines current heir Prince Charles taking the throne, with catastrophic results. Just a few decades ago, depictions of living British monarchs were banned from the country's stages. (AP Photo/Almeida Theatre, Johan Persson) NO ARCHIVE

‘King Charles III’ puts British monarchy onstage

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Former marathon world record holder Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie, aged 40, who will be the pacemaker for the elite men's runners at the London Marathon, poses for photographers at a hotel in London, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. The London marathon takes place on Sunday. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Gebrselassie worried about future of athletics

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

The Mummy of Tamut, a temple singer around 900 BC, is shown during a press conference at the British Museum in London, Wednesday April 9, 2014. Scientists at the British Museum have used CT scans and volume graphics software to go beneath the bandages, revealing the skin, bones, internal organs, and in one case a brain-scooping rod left inside a skull by embalmers. The results are going on display in an exhibition which sets eight of the museum's mummies alongside detailed 3-D images of their insides. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

New technology unwraps mummies’ ancient mysteries

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 18, 2013, file photo, Australia's Josh Kennedy celebrates after scoring against Iraq during their World Cup soccer Asian qualifying match at the Sydney Olympic Stadium in Sydney, Australia. Australia won the match 1-0 and qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)

5 Australia players to watch at the World Cup

By DENNIS PASSA - Associated Press

French couturier Jean Paul Gaultier pulls a face as he speaks to the media during a Q&amp;A session during the launch of his exhibition 'The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier : From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk' at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Jean Paul Gaultier pays tribute to London

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

English athlete Mo Farah performs a 'flying mobot' pose for the media during a photocall at Tower Bridge in London, Tuesday April 8, 2014. 31-year-old Farah is facing the biggest test of his running career as he prepares to make his marathon debut at the prestigious London Marathon on upcoming Sunday. (AP Photo / Andrew Matthews, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVES

Farah ready for full marathon debut after NY scare

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Police officers attend the home of Peaches Geldof in Wrotham, Kent, Monday, April 7, 2014. Peaches Geldof, the wild-child second daughter of concert organizer Bob Geldof who worked as a model, a television presenter and a fashion writer and filled the pages of British tabloids with her late-night antics, has died at age 25. There was no immediate word on the cause of her death at her home in Wrotham, Kent, southeast England. Her father said in a statement Monday: &quot;Peaches has died. We are beyond pain.&quot; (AP Photo/PA, Gareth Fuller) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE

UK police probing unexplained Peaches Geldof death

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

Dr. Michelle Griffin, a plastic research fellow, poses for photographs with a synthetic polymer ear at her research facility in the Royal Free Hospital in London, Monday, March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Noses, made in Britain: U.K. touts lab-grown organs

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Thursday, May 21, 2009, file photo, British socialite Peaches Geldof arrives for the amfAR Cinema Against AIDS benefit at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, during the 62nd Cannes International film festival, in Antibes, southern France. Entertainer Bob Geldof's agent says his 25-year-old daughter Peaches has died. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Peaches Geldof dies unexpectedly at age 25

By SYLVIA HUI - Associated Press

Entertainer Bob Geldof’s agent says his 25-year-old daughter Peaches has died.

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FILE - The Oxford University crew leads Cambridge University as they approach the finish line during the annual boat race on the Thames in southwest London in this Sunday, March 31, 2013 file photo. Cambridge is holding a slight weight advantage in the annual Boat Race against Oxford on Sunday April 6, yet the Light Blues’ main asset might be an 18-year-old geography student with a juvenile face, weighing a little bit more than 53 kilograms. (AP Photo / Harry Hamburg, file)

Cambridge hoping to regain Boat Race brag rights

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

A visitor strokes a cat in the newly opened Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium in London, Friday, April 4, 2014. Feline company is exactly what one of London’s newest cafes is offering _ and stressed-out city-dwellers are lapping it up. “People do want to have pets and in tiny flats, you can’t,” said cafe owner Lauren Pears, who opened Lady Dinah’s Cat Emporium last month in an area east of the city’s financial district. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Feline fans flock to London’s first cat cafe

By BETHAN McKERNAN - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center outside the Black Sea resort of Sochi, southern Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

British court OKs investigation into assassination of Russian ex-spy Litvinenko

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

SHAPIRO: No Dachau? No Auschwitz? Ignoring just as evil as denying

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

If you’ve ever wanted to evade overhead surveillance drones — and, of course, look stylish while

By Patrick Hruby - The Washington Times

BP shares dive again as board mulls dividend delay

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