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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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This list, though hardly exhaustive, provides an overview of some of Africa’s major contemporary civil conflicts. Read more
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Source: Voice of America Read more
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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 [...]
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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. Read more
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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 [...]
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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. Read more
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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 [...]
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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. Read more
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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? Read more
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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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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? Read more
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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 [...]