A World Cup photographer was held at gunpoint on Wednesday during a pre-dawn burglary at a lodge used by journalists covering Portugal and Spain, raising concerns about security in the host country.
The two robbers brandishing at least one handgun made their way undetected through two rooms where journalists were sleeping before rousing a Portuguese photographer in a third room.
The robbers made off with laptops, mobile phones and cash from the other victims.
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£21 for most expensive bread in UK
London : A baker in Britain is said to have created the country’s most expensive bread — costing £21 a loaf, which he insists is a “work of art”.
Tom Herbert, 33, has created the Shepherd Loaf which is crafted from organic Somerset spelt flour, cotswolds spring water and Cornish sea salt using a secret 55-year-old recipe, the Daily Express reported.
Though he admitted that the Shepherd Loaf may seem “horrifically overpriced” but claimed that people would “taste the difference”. “It is a work of art. I used a special flour called spelt that was brought to Britain by the Romans, a natural yeast called sourdough and Cotswolds spring water.
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Defendants throw acid on judges
Beijing : Six judges hearing a case in a local court were injured, two of them seriously, when a couple who were defendants threw acid on them, in second assault on judicial officials in China in less than a week.
The couple, Chen Hongsheng and Liu Fengjian, threw sulphuric acid at the judges who were to hear to their land dispute case as they were entering the court in Changzhou district court in Guangxi region. The presiding judge and another judge suffered third degree burns and were in danger of losing eyesight. The attacker couple was arrested. The acid attack on judges comes just a week after an angry litigant in a divorce case opened fire in a court in central China. —PTI