Pending appeal, Franck Ribery of Bayern Munich will miss the Champions League final. UEFA have given him an extra two-game ban for a tackle on Lisandro Lopez of Lyon.
He has been allowed only 7 kg of luggage, a dictaphone, two pens designed to work in zero gravity, three cameras and nine CDs – among them songs from the Beatles and Andrea Bocelli, the blind Italian tenor.
Penny bloods provided a literary voice for commoners at an affordable price. Eventually, penny bloods became known as penny dreadfuls and began to focus more on adventure than horror.
Despite the warning from Lord Shaftsbury that the paperback literature was seducing middle-class society into an unproductive life of evil, the penny bloods grew in popularity.
The tales often depicted the upper class as corrupt. One of the most beloved characters from the penny blood serials was Sweeney Todd, created by Thomas Prest.
Similar to reading a newspaper, dime novels and penny dreadfuls were meant to be read quickly and discarded, unlike the hardbound high literature that was written in volumes and published for the elite.
Though few children's books were available, penny dreadfuls were highly accessible, especially to male youths who created clubs in order to pool their money and start their own libraries.
In America, dime novels typically centered on tales of the American Revolution and the Wild West, while British penny bloods (later called penny dreadfuls) told serial tales of horror or fictionalized versions of true crimes.
San Francisco, grappling with the exploits of the Riddler and the Penguin, will call upon a pint-sized crusader: Miles, a 5-year-old cancer-stricken boy, a.k.a. Batkid.
British Petroleum faces huge penalties that may reach $18 billion for violations of the Clean Water Act. BP has already written off the cost of its cleanup effort after the spill, but penalties aren't tax deductible.
British Petroleum faces huge penalties that may reach $18 billion for violations of the Clean Water Act. BP has already written off the cost of its cleanup effort after the spill, but penalties aren't tax deductible.
British Petroleum faces huge penalties that may reach $18 billion for violations of the Clean Water Act. BP has already written off the cost of its cleanup effort after the spill, but penalties aren't tax deductible.
The Helmeted Hornbill is found in the Malay peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. It eats mostly fruit and insects, and uses its casque as a weighted tool to dig into rotten wood.
Worries over whether fracking introduces methane gas and drilling fluid into local drinking water pervade communities at the center of a natural gas boom in Pennsylvania.
Worries over whether fracking introduces methane gas and drilling fluid into local drinking water pervade communities at the center of a natural gas boom in Pennsylvania.