The United Nations' special rapporteur for human rights, Professor Philip Alston, went to Afghanistan in May 2008 to investigate rumours of extrajudicial killings.
"I want you to investigate rumours that my trainer, Bill Burton, and the jockey Huw Walker are stopping my horses".
It stars Joseph Fiennes as a powerful Roman tribune who is charged with investigating rumours that the Jewish messiah, Jesus, has risen from the dead.
She is particularly excited about the Bath production, having heard of the licentiousness of spa towns in the 19th century; she wants to investigate rumours of hydraulic vibrators.
In 1874 Custer led an expedition to investigate rumours of gold deposits in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory (now in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming).
Guardian Unlimited has learned Mr Grodnikov was investigating rumours of police plans to secretly detain opposition activists at a dacha settlement for senior interior ministry officials near the capital.
When a man crash lands on Bienvenido, on a mission to investigate rumours of lost civilisations within the Void, he discovers that the Fallers threaten not only human settlers, but also the very existence of the universe.
She investigates rumours of false lights and false foghorns, false harbours and false dawns, and of coastlines rigged meticulously as stage sets.According to the Shipwreck Index of Great Britain, there are between 30,000 and 33,000 wrecks around the British coast.
With orders to survey the coast east from Cape Shelagsky and to investigate rumours of land to the north, over three seasons (1821 23) he surveyed the coast to Kolyuchin Bay and attempted (unsuccessfully) to reach a landmass (now named Wrangel Island) reported by the local Chukchi as being visible from Cape Yakan in clear weather.
On the eve of publication of the extracts, the PM told The Independent on Sunday any suggestion that he had hit someone was a "lie", while earlier this month The Mail on Sunday claimed Rawnsley was investigating rumours, denied by No 10, that he had "lashed out".
