The billionaire Russian businessman Mikhail D. Prokhorov on Thursday said he has quit the pro-business party he headed for five months, condemning it as a “puppet Kremlin party.”
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Prokhorov Quits Pro-Business Party He Says Is Kremlin’s ‘Puppet’
Just five months after opening its doors to delighted pinheads and wizards across the D.C. region, Georgetown’s National Pinball Museum is being forced to close. David Silverman, the Silver Spring man whose dream it was to share his pinball collection with the masses, said Monday that he has received a letter informing him that he will have to vacate his third-floor space at the Shops at Georgetown Park in mid-July. “This has been a dream of mine for over 30 years and to have it whittled down . . . ,” Silverman said. Read full article > >
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National Pinball Museum to close
For five months starting on Wednesday, specially trained teams will monitor 911 calls for people who may be in danger of dying, and if resuscitation efforts fail, move in to save their kidneys.
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City Tries Ambulances to Save Organs
Roman Polanski is up for a European Film award for his thriller The Ghost, five months after avoiding extradition to the US.
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Polanski up for Europe film award
An Israeli soldier is sentenced to five months in jail after photos emerged of him posing next to a Palestinian prisoner, media report.
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Israeli soldier jailed over photo
A man is cleared of murdering his wife following a drunken night out, five months after their wedding.
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Newly-wed cleared of wife murder
A health trust chairman said his board was aware of the C. diff problem five months before an outbreak was declared.
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Board’s five-month C. diff watch
A detailed and well-preserved Roman parade helmet — complete with fine facial features on its face mask, tight curly hair, and a griffin-topped cap — will go up for auction Thursday, five months after it was found in northern England.
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Britons fight to keep Roman helmet
A man is found guilty of murdering his wife of five months and hiding her body in the family garage.
A man who killed his wife after five months of marriage enjoyed “gymnastic” sex sessions with another woman, a court hears.
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Murder accused’s ‘gymnastic sex’
A Venezuelan farmer who campaigned against the land-redistribution policies of Hugo Chavez dies after five months on hunger strike.
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Anti-Chavez hunger striker dies
Talks on forming a coalition government between Iraq’s two main political blocs are suspended, five months after an inconclusive election.
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Iraq coalition talks ‘suspended’
Prokhorov Quits Pro-Business Party He Says Is Kremlin’s ‘Puppet’
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
