As Larger British Rivals Perk Up, a Heralded Small Bank Stumbles
He mentioned the Co-operative Bank by name, saying Britain had started to make some headway but that he wanted to see “more banks on the high ... to improve its capital position, mainly through selling businesses and loan portfolios.

Burying Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Virginia
A mental health counselor in Richmond, Martha Mullen, had made inquiries on her own initiative to find a place that would accept Mr. Tsarnaev for burial. She was put in touch with Islamic Funeral Services ... but he’s dead and what happened ...

3D Printing Might Make Gun Regulation RIAA vs. NRA
The visual evidence of Wilson's triumph, the greatest marketing tool he has, has been pulled by a claim from Warner Chappell, copyright holder for Patrick Cassidy's "Funeral March," which played over footage of him firing the Liberator. Lawmakers who have ...

Obama honors officer who died in motorcade, other fallen police
who served two tours in Iraq; and Scott Ward of Baldwin County, Ala., a military veteran whose funeral procession "stretched for miles," the president said. Obama urged the country to honor officers not "only in the wake of tragedy. We should do it every day."

Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’ and the new American Dream
I noticed something funny when watching the much-ballyhooed “Great Gatsby.” The moral had changed. I will preface this with a spoiler alert, since as I boarded the escalator down from the theater someone accosted me and said, “Did you just ...

Christians Uneasy in Morsi's Egypt
CAIRO — Wasfi Amin Wassef used to buy and sell jewelry from his shop in Cairo’s vast Khan al-Khalili bazaar. Now he mostly buys it. Well into a third year of economic malaise following the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak, many ordinary ...