LONDON — Britain’s government said U.K. airports – including London’s Heathrow Airport – would reopen Tuesday, as European terminals lurched back to life while the danger from Iceland’s volcanic ash plume eased.
Medical consultant Howard Awand today was sentenced to 48 months in prison for wilfully failing to pay millions in income taxes. Awand’s wife was sentenced to 36 months. The couple was ordered to pay $2.475 million in restitution.
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga — Four adventurers set sail in an open boat from Tonga in a bid to re-enact the epic 4,400-mile survival voyage of Captain William Bligh of HMS Bounty fame when he was cast adrift by mutineers in 1789. Bligh sailed a 45-foot open longboat with 18 crew from near Tonga to West Timor in 48 days, surviving partly by catching fish and seabirds and drinking rain water.
DALLAS — After the joy of a wedding and the adoption of a baby came arguments that couldn’t be resolved, leading Angelique Naylor to file for divorce. That left her fighting both the woman she married in Massachusetts and the state of Texas, which says a union granted in a state where same-sex marriage is legal can’t be dissolved with a divorce in a state where it’s not.
NEW YORK — Michael Douglas says his family’s fame and history of substance abuse helped drive his troubled son into drug addiction and crime, and the Academy Award-winning actor is asking a judge to show leniency toward him.
