Cutty Sark gutted by fire

Prince Harry not going to Iraq

Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, will not be sent to serve in Iraq after military commanders decided it was too dangerous. The decision follows months of mixed signals and reviews on the part of the army, which originally had planned to post Harry, the younger son of Prince Charles, as head of a 12-member tank group within his Blues and Royals regiment, which is deploying to this spring.

Tony Blair announces his resignation

Boris Yeltsin dies at 76

Boris Yeltsin, the burly provincial politician who became a Soviet-era reformer, then the first freely elected president of and a towering figure of his time when he presided over the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the demise of the Communist Party, died  in Moscow, the Kremlin said. He was 76

He died suddenly of heart failure after being admitted to the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, medical officials told Russian news agencies.