London - Some 250 patients were moved to safety after a fire broke out in a London hospital Wednesday in which no-one was injured, a spokesman for the Northwick Park Hospital said.
The blaze started in the basement of the hospital in Harrow, north-west London, but was brought under control by more than 40 firefighters after two hours, the fire brigade said.
Patients were brought out on stretchers and in wheelchairs and two departments had been closed to new admissions so that staff could attend to the patients who had to be moved, a spokesman said.
London - Two female teenage air cadets and two Royal Air Force (RAF) instructors were killed in a mid-air collision of two RAF training aircraft in Britain Wednesday.
New York - A group trying to stop the rape of women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday launched a campaign to raise awareness in the United States, which it said could be critical in ending violence against women.
New Delhi - Architect of the 1995 Dayton agreement ending the war in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke is familiar with situations that seem nearly hopeless. Newly appointed as special US envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, the 67-year-old diplomat told the annual Munich Security Conference several days ago that the situation in the region was more difficult than any he had seen.
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Manama, Bahrain - The US Navy said Wednesday that one of its battleships patrolling the Gulf of Aden apprehended seven suspected pirates, marking the first such action by the newly-established multinational Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 to combat piracy.
