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The ISIS teen who plotted a terror attack on a Taylor Swift concert has been pictured for the first time as neighbours say he completely changed his look recently. The 19-year-old ISIS fanatic has been identified as Beran A., who lived in a newly-built end-terraced house in Ternitz, nearly 50 miles south of Vienna, where he spent his childhood. A few years ago, Beran A.'s parents - who immigrated to Austria from North Macedonia - moved into a new-built house in the Neunkirchen district of Ternitz with him and his younger sister. Beran A. and his accomplice had planned to...

FORT WORTH — They twisted in limbo too long, fought too hard to keep the chance to play, to lose the game. So the Robert M. Beren Academy Stars left no doubt. The small Houston Orthodox Jewish school rolled through the state semifinal it needed a lawsuit to get to play in, beating Dallas Covenant 58-46 Friday afternoon at Fort Worth Nolan High School. And now the hoops dream that fueled the players to stick up for their religious beliefs is so close. One game away. Thirty two minutes from a state title. Beren will play in the TAPPS 2A...

A Tolkien Virgin: Of Beren and Luthienby Mark-Edmond The Journey Continues I'm afraid that for the sake of honesty, I shall once again incur the disdain of those of you who worship Tolkien as a god. I've been anxiously awaiting the story of Beren and Luthien for some time now, and from what others (Jonathan for example) have mentioned I've been expecting it to be a real pleasure. True, this more focused character-narrative was a pleasant break from the grander, more distant narrative of the rest of the story, and I did find it engaging and fascinating at times,...