Stabbing deaths of French students shock London...

LONDON (AP) - The tabloids are calling them the "Tarantino murders." The two young Frenchmen, promising research students at one of Britain's top universities, had been bound and stabbed repeatedly in the head, neck and torso before their bodies were doused in fuel and set alight. A senior Scotland Yard detective said their wounds were the worst he had ever seen. Even for a city assailed almost daily by reports of knife crime, this was shocking—a seemingly burst of brutality reminiscent of a Quentin Tarantino film. No one has been charged in the June 29 deaths that horrified people on both sides of the English Channel, and prompted some French journalists to depict London as a city of mean streets, rampant crime and "no-go" areas. On Tuesday, bouquets of flowers lay behind police tape outside the brick townhouse where Laurent... [read full story]