Taliban prisoners recount Afghan great escape
Taliban fighters who escaped from an Afghan
prison alongside hundreds of comrades have described how they
crawled to freedom along a stifling tunnel lined with lights and an
air pipe. One said he spent half an hour scrambling through the
kilometre-long tunnel from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan
to a nearby safe house, before being arrested by police suspicious
of his dirty clothes and bare feet.
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Prince William, Monarchy’s new hope
Journey to becoming king:
When Prince William walks his university
sweetheart Kate Middleton down the aisle on Friday, it will be the
next step for Princess Diana’s eldest son on his journey to becoming
king. William has overcome the tragedy of his mother’s death when he
was 15 to become the great hope of the British royal family in the
21st century.
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CERN atom smasher sets new record
The world’s biggest atom smasher has set a new
world record for beam intensity, a key measure of performance and
power, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said
Friday. On a quest to unlock some of the universe’s deepest secrets,
the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva collided beams with a
luminosity exceeding the mark set last year by the US Tevetron
accelerator, CERN said.
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