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Man United crush Arsenal to reach final

Holders Manchester United remain on course to become the first side to retain the Champions League, as two goals in the first 11 minutes saw them defeat Arsenal 3-1 for a 4-1 aggregate victory and a place in the final against either Chelsea or Barcelona in Rome. A carnival atmosphere at the Emirates Stadium saw the home fans optimistic that last week’s 1-0 defeat at Old Trafford could be overturned, but those hopes were cruelly dashed as two individual mistakes allowed United to take a foothold in the game — a position they never looked likely to relinquish. Arsenal went into the match unbeaten in their last 27 home matches in Europe, since Chelsea defeated them 2-1 at Highbury in 2004, and had yet to taste European defeat at the Emirates, but that proud record always looked in doubt from the moment United took an eighth-minute lead.

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Pregnant Briton to escape death penalty in Laos

A British woman facing possible execution in Laos will escape the death sentence because she is pregnant, a spokesman for the Laotian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The country’s criminal law prohibits courts from sentencing pregnant women to death, spokesman Khenthong Nuanthasing told CNN. The woman’s trial hasn’t been scheduled yet, he said, but is likely to happen next week.

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Jack Kemp, GOP’s Supply-Side Beacon, Dies

Former Congressman Jack Kemp, who died Saturday at age 73 after a bout with cancer, was the Republican party’s top cheerleader for tax cuts for nearly a generation. Handsome, energetic and almost heroically optimistic, Kemp was also a man that many tax-cutting conservatives believed was the only proper legatee to Ronald Reagan.

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