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6 times Kate Middleton looked spellbinding in show-stopping red dresses

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The Princess of Wales looks sensational in any colour - but there's just something about her rocking red that makes our heads turn! READ: Royals wearing Uggs! From Princess Kate to Meghan Markle The mother-of-three looked stunning in a beautiful teaser image from her annual Christmas Carol concert released by Kensington Palace on Saturday. WATCH: Kate Middleton's best outfits over the past ten years Prince William's wife surprised royal fans by recycling her cherry red Needle and Thread 'Aurora Ballerina Gown' for the special sneak peek at her Together At Christmas event, which will be broadcast on ITV this Christmas Eve. Read More...

The American Warlord Guilty of Torture

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Before West Africa was gripped by an epidemic, before images of abandoned bodies in the streets of Monrovia, before chlorine and quarantines, before CDC predictions of calamity, before the scare in Dallas and talk of closing the border, before the United States deployed the 101st Airborne Division to fight a disease, before Ebola, Liberia was known for its civil war. By any objective measure, that 13-year slaughter was a human catastrophe: over 10% of the population dead and 80% internally displaced—numbers that dwarf (as if there is some sick contest here) today’s tragedy in Syria. Read More...

Gaddafis Compound: Inside Bab al-Azizya

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The last major bastion of Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year-old regime has fallen, as rebels overran the colonel’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli Tuesday, uncovering large caches of weapons—but so far, no sign of the mercurial dictator, who had been expected to hunker down there for a final stand. "This is Gaddafi's Pentagon," Noman Benotman, a British think-tanker and former Libyan Islamist opposition guerrilla commander, told Reuters. But the comparison doesn’t hold. Unlike the Department of Defense’s headquarters, which is more of an office building than a siege-ready castle, Bab al-Aziziya is part monument, part fortress, and part palace—more akin to a combination of the Kennedys’ Hyannis Port and Israel’s Masada. Read More...