Lady Liberty isn't just an abstract personification of freedom. Early American art makes clear that She is the Greek Athena and the Roman Minerva, Goddess of wisdom, philosophy, and civic virtue, the patroness of good government in Athens and Rome.
Barcelona's Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in jail and fined Â£1.7million over tax charges. A Spanish court found the 29-year-old Argentina striker and his father Jorge guilty of three counts of tax fraud.
O.J. Simpson begs Barack Obama to free him from jail because he thinks he has brain cancer. The 66-year-old former NFL star, behind bars for 33 years, is being tested for a cancerous tumour and is convinced he does not have long left to live. Get daily news by email. Convicted kidnapper OJ Simpson has written to Barack Obama begging to be freed from jail because he thinks he has brain cancer.