Britain's Prince Harry is to be withdrawn from Afghanistan after his security was compromised by international media, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.

In the first of a three-day series, Jill Lawless looks at the controversy Diana still sparks today. Some see her as manipulative while others recall a warm, kind woman.

PRINCES William and Harry paid tribute to their “beloved mother” yesterday in a poignant message in the Concert for Diana programme.

PRINCE HARRY will not deploy with his regiment to Iraq, the head of the British Army said last night.

PRINCE Harry’s regiment will learn today whether or not it is to be sent to Iraq in the latest round of troop deployments.

James Blunt and the Kaiser Chiefs triumphed at the Brit Awards tonight.

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin, formerly head of the KGB, arrived in Britain yesterday to a welcome fit for a tsar. At the start of the first state visit by a Russian leader since 1874, when Tsar Alexander II came to Britain, President Putin basked in the British sunshine.

THREE wounded British soldiers have described how they survived an attack by a US A-10 Thunderbolt anti-tank aircraft that killed one of their troop and destroyed two armoured vehicles.

A slow, steady tide of humanity today began filing past the Queen Mother’s coffin as it began its lying in state at Westminster Hall.