Exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky tells a judge Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich is a “gangster” who “intimidated” him into selling shares.

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British archaeologists find an ancient shipyard in Italy that built or maintained ships for the Roman empire.

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UK dig finds huge Roman shipyard

Film director Roman Polanski is to collect a lifetime achievement award at the Zurich Film Festival, two years after his arrest in the city on child sex charges.

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Polanski to collect Swiss honour

Former Chelsea manager Avram Grant has warned Andre Villas-Boas he must achieve immediate success to satisfy owner Roman Abramovich.

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Archaeologists have uncovered a sewer buried by the volcano Vesuvius which has yielded secrets of the ancient Roman lifestyle, diet and illnesses.

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Sewer yields Roman diet secrets

An Episcopal church in Maryland — including its pastor — has decided to convert to Catholicism, the first in the United States to make the move under new Vatican rules meant to appeal to disaffected Protestants. St. Luke’s, a small, tight-knit congregation in Bladensburg with a majority of members from Africa and the Caribbean, will be allowed to hold onto its Anglican traditions even as it comes under the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. That will include being led by its married pastor, the Rev. Mark Lewis, and retaining much of its liturgy. Read full article > >

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Identical twins Julian and Adrian Riester were born seconds apart 92 years ago. They died hours apart this week. The Buffalo-born brothers were also brothers in the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor. Professed friars for 65 years, they spent much of that time working together at St. Bonaventure University, doing carpentry work, gardening and driving visitors to and from the airport and around town. “It was fun to see them, just quiet, gentle souls,” Yvonne Peace, who worked at the St. Bonaventure Friary for nearly 21 years, said Friday. Read full article > >

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Birmingham are relegated to the Championship after Roman Pavlyuchenko’s late goal means they lost at Tottenham, who sealed fifth place with the win.

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Syrian President Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on protesters continued Sunday with the shelling of Dara’a's Roman quarter. Dara’a, where protests began six weeks ago after a group of teens was arrested for drawing graffiti, has been without water,…

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Hundreds of thousands of people gathered for a vigil Saturday night at the Circus Maximus, the site of an ancient Roman stadium, on the even of Pope John Paul II’s beatification. During the vigil, a nun gave a testimonial saying her Parkinson’s disease…

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Thousands Gather on Eve of John Paul II’s Beatification

The body of a girl thought to have been murdered by Roman soldiers is discovered by archaeologists alongside the A2 in north Kent.

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Girl ‘murdered’ by Roman soldiers

The body of a girl thought to have been murdered by Roman soldiers is discovered by archaeologists alongside the A2 in north Kent.

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Mary Beard is the scholar headlining the 2011 Mellon Lectures, focusing on the enduring power of Roman iconography.

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2011 Mellon Lectures feature Mary Beard’s take on ‘12 Caesars’

Mary Beard is the scholar headlining the 2011 Mellon Lectures, focusing on the enduring power of Roman iconography.

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Sweeping changes that Roman Catholic bishops put in place to protect children have been challenged by a crisis.

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Suspensions Force Bishops to Reassess Rule Changes