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At 1100GMT Buckingham Palace made the engagement official. Lord Maclean, the Lord Chancellor made the following statement at an investiture at the Palace: “It is with greatest pleasure that the Queen
This evening about 200 soldiers and members of the paramilitary Civil Guard stormed the lower house of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes, firing automatic weapons and shouting orders. They took hostage
The USD2 million (£870,000) food handout has been called the most bizarre ransom ever paid, and was in response to demands from Miss Hearst’s kidnappers, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Distribution
He had been suffering from failing health for several years and was last seen in public three years ago. The country’s official news agency said his death was the result of
The law faces a stiff test this weekend, with the Countryside Alliance saying many hunts will be out in force. Chief police officers spokesman Nigel Yeo said he expected most people
Vietnamese Vice-Foreign Minister Nguyen Ko Tach has told ambassadors in Hanoi the Chinese troops have occupied nearly all Vietnamese border positions and are advancing southwards. He did not give any idea
At the age of 32, he has been sworn in as Prime Minister in the Cabinet Room of the Presidential Palace in Havana. Dr Castro led the resistance against the seven-year
A war correspondent of the Japanese News Agency in Singapore reported that fighting ceased along the entire Malayan front at 2200 local time. The British and Japanese commanders-in-chief, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival
Two men took just 50 seconds to climb a ladder, smash through a window of the National Art Museum in Oslo and cut The Scream, by Edvard Munch, from the
One of the dead was a 15-year-old boy. About 240 people were injured - more than half of them police officers. The protest, which was banned under the State of Emergency
It is the worst single atrocity in the 22-month old conflict between Bosnia’s Serbs, Muslims and Croats. UN inspectors are examining the crater left by the bomb to determine where it
The International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS) was created at the Paris Peace Accords - signed by the US, the Vietcong, North Vietnam and South Vietnam - on 27 January
When the pontiff arrived at the two-storey building in the heart of the city’s slums, Mother Teresa climbed into the famous white Popemobile and bent down to kiss his hand. He
In a televised speech at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town, President FW de Klerk announced restrictions would be lifted on the ANC, the smaller Pan Africanist Congress and
This is the first time there has been an accident on landing in the 42 years of American space flight. President George Bush told a nation in shock: “The Columbia
London has been worst affected - but many areas of the Midlands, East Anglia, southern England and east and south Wales have also been shrouded in fog and frost for
The 50-year-old general and deputy Chief of Staff at Nato’s Southern European land forces headquarters at Verona, emerged after 42 days in captivity unharmed, but thinner and with a beard. Police
The rebels have taken over the University of London Union building, in Malet Street in central London, saying they want to establish an LSE in exile until their own college
He also rejected accusations that he asked her to lie about the relationship on oath. Mr Clinton has come under intense media pressure as rumours circulate that he conducted an 18-month
The four major public service unions angry at the government’s attempt to impose a 5% pay ceiling called out their 1.5 million members. They included hospital workers, rubbish collectors, school caretakers,
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