Jill Lawless

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Feast of arts, galaxy of stars for Olympic Games

Feast of arts, galaxy of stars for Olympic Games

Jill Lawless · June 27, 2012 11:03 pm

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2012 file photo, Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder, arrives at the Supreme Court in London. On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced in Quito that Assange is seeking asylum at Ecuador's embassy in London, and that Ecuador's government is studying the request. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Assange faces arrest if he leaves Ecuador embassy

Jill Lawless · June 20, 2012 4:00 am

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi signs a book at the Nobel Institute after a meeting with the Norwegian Nobel Committee members in Oslo, Norway, Saturday, June 16, 2012. It's been 21 years, and Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is about to give her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. (AP Photo/Cathal McNaughton, Pool)

Suu Kyi to make bittersweet return to Oxford

Jill Lawless · June 18, 2012 5:10 am

Kate Winslet, Kenneth Branagh get royal honors

Kate Winslet, Kenneth Branagh get royal honors

Jill Lawless · June 16, 2012 7:57 am

In this photo released Tuesday June 12, 2012 by the Olympic Organising Committee LOCOG, showing a model of the rural English scene which will be the centre piece for the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. With 45 days until the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games artistic director of the ceremony Danny Boyle has unveiled the model and paid tribute to the 10,000 volunteers, cast and crew rehearsing night and day to make the Opening Ceremony a success.(AP Photo / Dave Poultney, Locog)

Cows and sheep: Olympics to have an English meadow

Jill Lawless · June 12, 2012 1:39 pm

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrives at the High Court with his wife Sarah to give evidence at the Leveson Inquiry, London, Monday, June 11, 2012. Former UK prime minister Gordon Brown and current Treasury chief George Osbourne give evidence at Britain's inquiry into media ethics. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)

Ex-UK PM Brown: Murdoch lied under oath to inquiry

Jill Lawless · June 11, 2012 6:46 pm

This is an image issued by Museum of London Archaeology on Wednesday June 6, 2012 , showing an archaeologist as she undertakes initial archaeological excavation work at the site of The Curtain Theatre in London in October 2011. Archaeologists say they have discovered the remains of an Elizabethan theatre where some of William Shakespeare's plays were first performed. Experts from the Museum of London have uncovered a yard and gallery walls from the Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch, just east of London's business district. (AP Photo/Museum of London Archaeology)

Remains of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre found

Jill Lawless · June 6, 2012 2:47 pm

From left Britain's Prince Charles Queen Elizabeth Prince William, and his wife Kate Duchess of Cambridge, stand on the balcony at Buckingham Palace during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in central London Tuesday June 5, 2012. Four days of nationwide celebrations during which millions of people have turned out to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee conclude on Tuesday with a church service and carriage procession through central London. (AP Photo/Stefan Wermuth, Pool)

After jubilee success, monarchy faces the future

Jill Lawless · June 5, 2012 7:07 pm