Ireland marks 100th anniversary of Easter Rising

Hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of Dublin on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising, a rebellion against British rule that paved the way for independence of Ireland. Ireland staged the largest commemorative event in its history to mark the six-day revolt, when rebels seized buildings across the capital and declared an Irish republic on Easter Monday in 1916. President Michael D Higgins began the day's events on Sunday by laying a...