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Britain’s Prince Harry in Afghanistan (AP)

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Harry has been in Helmand Province, where most of the 7,800 British soldiers in Afghanistan are based. It has seen some of the country’s fiercest combat in recent years, with NATO-led forces fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida militants.
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Jackson’s Neverland ranch faces public auction as bills go unpaid

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Michael Jackson’s famed Neverland Valley Ranch in California will be foreclosed and sold on March 19, unless the pop star pays a balance of nearly e16.5m, property records have shown, writes Dan Whitcomb.
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Gordon Brown hits roof over Heathrow protest

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Protesters who climbed onto the roof of the British House of Commons in a demonstration against plans to expand Heathrow airport were yesterday condemned by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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Prince Harry Serving in Afghanistan

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LONDON (Feb. 28) - Prince Harry has been serving on the front line in Afghanistan with the British Army, calling in airstrikes on Taliban positions and going out on foot patrols, the Ministry of Defense announced Thursday.

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Prince Harry has been secretly fighting Taliban in Afghanistan for 10 weeks, admits MoD

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The 23-year-old Household Cavalry officer has spent the past 10 weeks secretly serving in war-ravaged Helmand Province and was there over Christmas. He dropped his first bombs on New Year’s Eve.

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Wave of support moves deported editor

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“The amount of calls, emails and text messages has been overwhelming,” Russell Hunter said in Sydney, where he flew on Tuesday after being deported from Fiji.
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Overview: Africa's Civil Wars

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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts.
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Profile: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Source: Voice of America

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China Rejects Latest Charge of Poisoned Products

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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism

The People’s Republic is racking up quite a roster: pet food that caused kidney failure, lead in children’s toys, children’s toys that turned into date-rape drug ingredients, bad toothpaste, etc. And now, poisoned dumplings. But China swears that the frozen gyoza from a factory outside Beijing must have been […]

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Cole poll

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Gov. Rod Blagojevich announced Wednesday that he will introduce legislation to provide Northern Illinois University with $40 million in state funds to demolish Cole Hall — the site of the shooting rampage two weeks ago — and replace it with a new classroom building to be named Memorial Hall.
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The Blogs, Videos And Stories Featured

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Sky.Com News is on-air and online from 7.30pm tonight.
The most-clicked stories on Sky News Online:
Britain Struck By Earthquake
Naomi Campbell In Hospital In Brazil
Jersey Care Home: Police Focus On Bricked Up Cellar
Python Eats Family Pet
Teenager Dies In School Bus Crash
Mischa Barton Charged With Drink Driving And Drugs
The stories moving up the web agenda:
Starbucks Close Branch […]

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South Africa Students Feed ‘Urine Soup’ To Black University Workers

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There are protests in South Africans over a video showing white students humiliating black university staff. The footage shows cleaners forced into a mock ceremony, in which they were given soup contaminated with urine. Sky’s Laura Bundock reports.
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Hendrix drummer dies, aged 60

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Linda Matlow/Rex Features

Jimi Hendrix’s drummer Buddy Miles has died, aged 60.
Miles played with Hendrix and bassist Billy Cox in the group Band of Gypsys, which released a live album in 1970.
It was the last album Hendrix authorised to be released.
The drummer also worked with the guitar legend on the seminal Electric Ladyland LP, where […]

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Iraqi family sues soldiers in Australia

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An Iraqi family is seeking compensation in court from Australia’s government for gunshot wounds sustained when Australian troops opened fire at a Baghdad checkpoint, a lawyer said Thursday.
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‘DOOMSDAY’ SEED VAULT OPENS IN ARCTIC

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February 26, 2008 — LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — A “doomsday” seed vault built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters opened Tuesday deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

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Conflicting Debate Advice, and Not Just from Clinton Campaign

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It’s not just Sen. Hillary Clinton’s own campaign that is issuing conflicting advice for tonight’s make-or-break Ohio debate against Sen. Barack Obama. It’s the outside experts and supporters too.
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Cuba’s new leader: How much reform, and how soon?

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Now that he has officially taken over as the head of Cuba’s government from his older brother, Fidel, will Cuban President Raúl Castro do a Deng Xiaoping?
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‘I don’t want my kids to watch me slaughtered like a useless sheep’

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Scared, alone and in fear of their life, scores of Iraqi interpreters who worked for the British Army have been in touch with The Times since the newspaper launched a campaign in August to highlight their plight.Here are some extracts from emails and telephone conversations that offer an insight into the world of these people, […]

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Doh! Politics update

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Were we wrong all along about the secret identity of Yasuo Fukuda? Leo and I concluded that he is Eric Morecambe. Jun Okumura, mighty among Japan political bloggers, observed his resemblance to John Major. But has the truth eluded us all along?
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Oscars: Live Coverage from LA

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9.05pm. Coen brothers clean up.
No Country For Old Men wins both Best Picture and Best Director for the Coen brothers. It’s been a huge night for the movie, which also took Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor. “This is an unbelievable honour and a complete surprise,” says Scott Rudin, the film’s producer. After […]

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