Free Republic

A group ransacked a Wawa in Philadelphia's Mayfair section on Saturday night. The store is located on Roosevelt Boulevard at Tyson Avenue. *** A group ransacked a Wawa in Philadelphia's Mayfair section on Saturday night. The store is located on Roosevelt Boulevard at Tyson Avenue. [Video at link]

A legally armed delivery driver turned the tables on three men who tried to rob him in Philadelphia’s Mayfair section, killing one suspect and sending another to the hospital in critical condition. The man told police he arrived home around 12:15 a.m. on Saturday on Longshore Avenue after working his meal delivery job. After going inside his home to give his family food, he went back outside when he was confronted by three men, police said. Two of the suspects pointed guns at the man and demanded money. The man then told the suspects the money was inside his vehicle....

Syria's 'Butcher of Hama' living in £10 million Mayfair townhouse The massacre of civilians in the rebellious Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughur has awoken terrible memories for the people of Hama, 60 miles to the north, where up to 40,000 people were killed during an uprising in 1982. Rifaat al-Assad moved, more than a year ago, to a Georgian mansion off Park Lane By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter 9:00PM BST 12 Jun 2011 Today, Mahar al-Assad, the bloodthirsty brother of President Bashar al-Assad, is the man leading his army on a mission of vengeance against those who have dared to...

Full Title - FUSION: Hakluyt & Company — with offices in London, New York, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney — was founded by an trio of former British intelligence operatives that connect to Hillary Clinton. Miss Trial via Thread Unroller

In Britain, defending your property can get you life. Celebrity news from the United Kingdom: In April, Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist and author of The Female Eunuch, was leaving her house in East Anglia, when a young woman accosted her, forced her back inside, tied her up, smashed her glasses, and then set about demolishing her ornaments with a poker. A couple of weeks before that, the 85-year-old mother of Phil Collins, the well-known rock star, was punched in the ribs, the back, and the head on a West London street, before her companion was robbed. “That’s what you...

The Queen's officials have rejected an extraordinary request from American diplomats to move the US embassy into Kensington Palace, the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales. The bid to take over the building was made because the embassy's current location, in Grosvenor Square, in Mayfair, is considered highly vulnerable to terrorist attack despite the extra security measures which were put in place after September 11. James Lane, the US minister-counsellor for administrative affairs at the London embassy, approached Alan Reid, the Royal Treasurer and Keeper of the Privy Purse, earlier this month to make the request. Kensington Palace was...

Diplomats in the 19th century were aristocrats. Their embassies were palaces and villas in the smartest parts of Paris and Vienna, Berlin, St Petersburg and London, houses where kings and princes might sleep and entertain. In the 20th century, embassies in many capitals still exuded magnificence but became, behind their facades, mere offices - for issuing visas, for promoting trade. In the 21st century, the institution has changed again. Today, the embassies of some countries, notably those of the US and UK, constitute a series of very grand and prestigious military targets scattered around the world. In London, the United...

Drunken Chelsea Clinton staggers out of a nightspot-and collapses.Chelsea, 22 year old daughter of ex-President Bill Clinton, had to be CARRIED (into her car) by her American boyfriend Ian Klaus, 22.She then slumped into the back of the car.The pair, both students at Oxford University, had been boozing with pals at the Embassy Club in London's Mayfair.An onlooker said: 'Chelsea couldn't even stand or speak.'She was wasted.