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A British-born tycoon made history today as he became the first offspring of a NASA astronaut to go into space.
Richard Garriott, 47, will dock tomorrow at the International Space Station, 225 miles above Earth, 35 years after his father Owen flew aboard one of NASA’s last Apollo missions to Skylab, America’s first orbiting laboratory.
The multi-millionaire computer-game developer, who began his working life as a kitchen assistant at Burger King, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today as a private passenger aboard a Soyuz capsule, having paid the Russian space agency $30 million for the privilege and undergone a year’s training.
He will be the only the second person to wear the Union flag in space; Helen Sharman, a chemist for Mars confectioners, was the first when she flew to Russia’s Mir space station on a privately arranged trip in 1991. A British-born tycoon made history today as he became the first offspring of a NASA... more
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Egypt's prosecutor has charged the chairman of developer Talaat Moustafa Group for hiring a man to kill Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai, the prosecution said on Tuesday.
The indictment charges former police officer Muhsen el-Sukkari with killing Tamim on July 28 in return for $2 million from company chairman Hesham Talaat Moustafa.
Shares in Talaat Moustafa, one of Egypt's biggest real estate developers, fell 16 percent to 5.21 pounds ($0.97) on Tuesday as reports of the indictment reached the stock market.
Egypt's prosecutor has charged the chairman of developer Talaat Moustafa Group for hiring a man to kill Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim in Dubai, the prosecution said on Tuesday.
The indictment charges former police officer Muhsen el-Sukkari with killing Tamim on July 28 in return for $2 million from company chairman Hesham Talaat Moustafa.
Shares in Talaat Moustafa, one of Egypt's biggest real estate developers, fell 16 percent to 5.21 pounds ($0.97) on Tuesday as reports of the indictment reached the stock market.
Egyptian media reports have said that Sukkari has worked as a security officer at the Four Seasons Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, which Talaat Moustafa built.
The indictment says Moustafa "took part through incitement, agreement and assistance with the first defendant (Sukkari) in killing the victim in revenge".
"He provided him with special information and amounts of money necessary to plan and carry out the crime," it said.
Sukkari went to Tamim's apartment in Dubai on July 28 and gained access by pretending to be a representative of the company which owns the building, bringing a present and a letter of thanks from the company, the indictment said.
"He then laid into her with the knife ... cutting her main arteries and her trachea," it added.
"This was on the instigation of the second defendant in return for obtaining from him the sum of $2 million for committing this crime," it said.
Beyond the reference to "revenge", the indictment did not speculate on Moustafa's motives for his acts.
Egypt's prosecutor has charged the chairman of developer Talaat Moustafa Group... more
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