Robert Richards, 30, of Scholars Gate, Birmingham, was shot in the leg in Herefordshire in 2011, police said.

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The blue enamel gate, which was discovered by Robert Koldewey, a renowned German archaeologist, is the only Babylonian monument from this time to have survived, albeit in thousands of small pieces.

ECONOMIST: Babylon

NPR's Robert Smith sent us this audio postcard from the main gate of the Pepsi Center in Denver.

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