The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
London - Under grey autumn skies, the Queen led a sombre ceremony of remembrance Sunday for Britain's war dead, including more than 50 British troops killed this year in Iraq. The Queen, dressed in black, laid a wreath of red poppies at the Cenotaph memorial in Whitehall, a central London thoroughfare lined with government buildings. The remembrance service is held every year on the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of the end of the First World War on Nov. 11, 1918, at 11 a.m. Khartoum, Sudan - Thirty-one people were killed and 48 injured in a stampede by hundreds of people rushing to receive money and food handouts in the eastern town of Port Sudan, a police statement said Sunday. Cincinnati - Sky-watchers in every continent but Australia revelled in the relative rarity of a total lunar eclipse Saturday night - but as stargazers have noted for centuries, it was a matter of celestial perspective. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon, Earth and sun are in alignment and the moon passes through the planet's shadow. In a solar eclipse, the Earth is in the moon's shadow. Jerusalem - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon urged his Cabinet on Sunday to approve a hotly debated prisoner swap with Hezbollah, even though it does not include Israel's most famous MIA, an air force navigator captured 17 years ago.
