Report: British military says object found at busy UK air base not suspicious

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September 10th, 2009 LONDON - A strange object spotted flying in Argentinean skies is speculated to be either a flying saucer or a dinosaur. A fisherman near San Rafael photographed the mysterious object flying over an artificial lake called El-Nihuil last Saturday.

September 8th, 2009 Military reports false alarm at UK air baseLONDON — A busy British air base was briefly subject to a bomb scare Tuesday, but the Ministry of Defense said it turned out to be a false alarm. The military had reported earlier that it was investigating a suspected improvised explosive device at Royal Air Force Lyneham, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of London.

September 8th, 2009 UK military: suspected explosive found at RAF baseLONDON — The British military says it is investigating a suspected bomb found at U.K. air base. The Ministry of Defense says that what could be an improvised explosive device has been discovered at RAF Lyneham.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON — The deputy commander of a U.S. Air Force base in England was baffled by what he'd seen: bright, pulsing lights in the night sky.

August 4th, 2009 LONDON - An amateur photographer is said to have captured what he believes to be a UFO tracking an RAF Hercules as it approached RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire for landing. John Powell, 56, a retired schoolteacher, was gardening at his home in nearby Westbury when he noticed the sun glinting off the circular surface of the mysterious object, which was following the military craft.

August 2nd, 2009 Report: British military worried over fat fightersLONDON — A newspaper says that Britain's military is so worried over by increasingly overweight soldiers it has demanded that commanders refocus on fitness. The Observer newspaper quotes from a leaked memo sent to British army units this month saying the army needs to "reinvigorate a warrior ethos and a culture of being fit." The memo is quoted as saying operational effectiveness is being undermined and lives put at risk by obese soldiers.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has taken serious note of the "vulgar" language used by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to describe a woman accused in the murder of a Kerala nun, said Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Brinda Karat Saturday. Karat, who wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday urging that all probe agencies be asked to maintain minimum standards of respect to the dignity of women, said: "I followed up the matter.

July 20th, 2009 KABUL - A British fighter jet crashed during takeoff at a NATO airbase in southern Afghanistan, a media report said Monday. Two crew members of the British Tornado jet managed to eject safely just before the crash at Kandahar airfield at 7.20 a.m.

July 10th, 2009 KABUL - Two British troops and at least two militants were killed in fighting in Afghanistan, the British and US militaries said Friday. The British soldiers died Thursday in Helmand province, taking to 178 the total number of British military fatalities in Afghanistan, the ministry of defence said in London.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - A new study has suggested that a wandering black hole may have torn apart a star to create a strange object that brightened mysteriously like a firefly and then faded from view in 2006. The object, called SCP 06F6, was first spotted in the constellation Bootes in February 2006 in a search for supernovae by the Hubble Space Telescope.

May 19th, 2009 LONDON - Ten people were arrested after violent clashes early Tuesday left 21 British policemen and 11 Tamil protesters injured in central London, police said Tuesday. At least three policemen and eight Tamils were treated in hospital after the clashes, which began just after midnight when police moved demonstrators off a busy road opposite the British parliament, where they had been staging a sit-in.

March 17th, 2009 LONDON - 'Busy' British parents are finding it difficult to pass on simple recipes, says a new research, which found that three-quarters of mums do not give their children regular cooking lessons. On the behalf of the Potato Council, 2,039 people were interviewed and it was found that one-fifth of mothers said they rarely or never taught their children to cook.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - British comic Russell Brand fears he may miss out on a role in the next sequel of Pirates Of The Caribbean, as he is too busy. Brand was recently rumoured to be in negotiations to play the brother of Johnny Depp's character, Captain Jack Sparrow, in a planned sequel in the hit flick.

January 28th, 2009 LONDON - British police have confirmed that the body of a boy found in a canal this week is that of missing Goan teenager Jonathan Marques. Marques, 15, went missing Jan 6 on his way to school in his English hometown of Reading, about 70 km from here.