Prince Harry has said he hoped to bring the ‘Warrior Games’ for injured servicemen and women to the UK.
Prince Harry meets British soldiers competing in the Warrior Games. Credit: Arthur Edwards/The Sun /PA Wire
Speaking at the event in the US, he said: “I only hope in the future, the near future we can bring the Warrior Games to Britain and continue to enlarge this fantastic cause.
Prince Harry gives a high five to Lcpl Maurillia Simpson. Credit: Arthur Edwards/The Sun /PA Wire
"I don't see how it wouldn't be possible to fill a stadium with 80,000 people, not to watch Olympics, not to watch Paralympics but to watch wounded servicemen fight it out amongst each other - not on a battlefield but in a stadium."
Prince Harry plays sitting volleyball in Colorado Springs. Credit: Arthur Edwards/The Sun /PA Wire
The Warrior Games are a Paralympic-style competition featuring injured servicemen and women from the US, UK, Canada and Australia.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un signed off on the order for rocket units to be placed on standby to fire at US bases in the south and Pacific as he "judged the time has come to settle accounts with the US imperialists in view of the prevailing situation", the official KCNA news agency said.
"He finally signed the plan on technical preparations of strategic rockets of the KPA, ordering them to be standby for fire so that they may strike any time the US mainland, its military bases in the operational theatres in the Pacific," KCNA said.
On Thursday, the United States flew two radar-evading B-2 Spirit bombers on practice runs over South Korea, responding to a series of North Korean threats.
N Korea orders rockets on standby to fire at US bases
North Korea's young leader Kim Jong-Un has launched a long-range rocket and tested a nuclear bomb in recent months. Credit: REUTERS/KCNA
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered rocket units to be placed on standby to fire at US bases in the south and Pacific after a stealth bomber run, Reuters has reported, citing the Korean Central News Agency.
US Secretary of State Kerry in surprise Iraq visit
US Secretary of State John Kerry has been touring a succession of countries since assuming the role. Credit: REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin
US Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit and is set to urge the country's prime minister to ensure Iranian flights over Iraq were not carrying arms to Syria.
"He will be very direct with Prime Minister (Nuri al) Maliki about the importance of stopping the Iranian overflights and the transits across the territory or, at a minimum, inspecting each of the flights," an unnamed senior US official said.
Mr Kerry will also ask Mr Maliki and the Iraqi cabinet to reconsider a decision to postpone elections in two provinces, Anbar and Nineveh, the official said.
US nuclear storage tanks leaking radioactive waste
The Hanford site, seen here in 1999, housed nuclear reactors before accommodating the storage tanks. Credit: PA Archive
Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear site in the US state of Washington have been leaking radioactive waste, officials have said.
The seeping at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation poses no near-term danger of polluting the Columbia River and the leak provides no immediate health risk, state governor Jay Inslee said.
But he described the updated findings, which come a week after radioactive waste was found at one tank on the site, as "disturbing news for all Washingtonians".
US defence chief orders Patriot missiles to Turkey
A US soldier stands next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland. Credit: Reuters
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed an order to send two Patriot missile batteries to Turkey with 400 American staff to operate them, his spokesman George Little told reporters, before Panetta landed on an unannounced visit to Turkey.
"The purpose of this deployment is to signal very strongly that the United States, working closely with our NATO allies, is going to support the defence of Turkey, especially with potential threats emanating from Syria," the spokesman said.
