DECEMBER 13 : Forget the cocktails, an early night is a must. The adrenaline was already pumping but Second Lieutenant Harry's first battle was packing everything on the huge kit list into his Bergen rucksack.
At approximately 76-inches tall, and as immense as a mountain of goodwill, James Leroy Smith monopolized a lot of space on a football field. But, that was nothing compared to the massive territory he occupied in the hearts of his fellow officials.
This is Prince Harry firing at the Taliban during a front-line clash in Afghanistan. Manning a powerful .50 calibre machine gun for the first time, Harry helped Gurkha troops repel an insurgent attack on the southernmost British position in Helmand.
After a dozen weeks off the radar - for its traditional end-of-season retreat - domestic football returned to the soccer pitches of the capital on Sunday as fans in Harare got their chance to welcome the dawn of a new season.
AFTER a dozen weeks off the radar †for its traditional end-of-season retreat †domestic football returned to the soccer pitches of the capital on Sunday as fans in Harare got their chance to welcome the dawn of a new season.
Two thoughtful Lancastrians will look at the Six Nations table tomorrow morning, but only one will feel satisfied with what he sees. While Brian Ashton's England languish in fourth place, the part-time, assistant coach of Wales, Shaun Edwards, knows that his boys will go top if they beat Italy in Cardiff and France get pricked by a red rose in Paris.
WHEN her husband left home and never returned, Aisha Haruna's world came tumbling down. "I was pregnant and about to deliver when my husband disappeared. I did not have a job yet I had to feed my three children," Haruna said.
Crumbling Victorian tunnels full of effluent, rodents and the corpses of a thousand goldfish might not sound like the kind of place where a technological revolution is likely to take place. But sewers are the secret weapon of a company with a mission to create a nationwide network of hi-tech cables capable of delivering super-high-speed broadband.
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