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Princess Diana remembered in concert
LONDON — Rockers and royals including Rod Stewart, Elton John and Princes William and Harry, were taking the stage at London's Wembley Stadium on Sunday to remember Princess Diana almost 10 years after her death in a Paris car crash.
The concert, organized by Diana's sons, falls on what would have been her 46th birthday. The princess died Aug.31,1997, along with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver when their Mercedes crashed inside the Pont d'Alma tunnel while media photographers pursued them.
The memorial concert features music from some of Diana's favorite acts, including Tom Jones and 80s chart-toppers Duran Duran. Younger performers include Kanye West, P. Diddy, Joss Stone and Lily Allen.
The two princes were scheduled to address the 65,000-strong crowd from the stage at some point during the show.
Security for the event was being reevaluated after the discovery of two unexploded car bombs in central London on Friday and an attack
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on Glasgow airport in Scotland on Saturday that involved a Jeep Cherokee in flames slamming into the main terminal.
Deadly Afghan airstrike investigated
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan An investigation into airstrikes that slammed into Afghan homes where Taliban fighters sought shelter found that 62 insurgents and 45 civilians were killed, two Afghan officials said Sunday.
An investigating team was sent to Helmand province's Gereshk district, where fighting took place between insurgents and Western forces late Friday, said Dur Ali Shah, the mayor of Helmand province's Gereshk district, and Mohammad Hussein Andewal, the provincial police chief.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force has acknowledged some civilians were killed in the southern battle but has said the death toll was nowhere near as high as Afghan officials have claimed.
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Forensic officers at the scene of Saturday's dramatic attack on the terminal building at Glasgow Airport in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday. Police arrested two men one on fire — after a Jeep Cherokee was driven into the main doors of the airport before bursting into flames Saturday in a suspected "terrorist incident".
British police make arrests
Authorities sieze fifth suspect in UK terrorist threat
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and foiled car bombings in London.
GLASGOW, Scotland - British police raided buildings near Glasgow and in central England and made a fifth arrest on Sunday, as the hunt intensified for suspects in the fiery attack on the Scottish city's airport
On Friday, police thwart an
The terrorist threat that Britain faces is "long-term and sustained," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in a nationally televised interview. It is clear, he said, "that we are dealing, in general terms, with people who are associated with al-Qaida."
apparent plot to set off a coordinated bomb attack in central London when an ambulance crew outside a nightclub spotted smoke coming from a Mercedes that was found to be rigged with explosives. They found a second Mercedes filled with explosives hours later.