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Australian WW II wreck seen after 66 years
SYDNEY: An Australian hospital ship which was torpedoed in World War II and sank with the loss of 268 lives was seen for the first time in 66 years on Sunday when a remote-control camera captured footage of the wreck. The Centaur was lost on May 14,1943 and only found off Australias northeast coast last month when a high-tech search uncovered it at a depth of 1.3 miles. Search director David Mearns said he hoped Sundays photographic proof would remove all doubt and hopefully end a 66-year quest for unanswered questions and bring comfort to many families across Australia and beyond.
Authors battle it out to write Queens biography
LONDON: Two international writers are said to be locked in a battle over who would pen what is being claimed as the definitive biography of the British Queen to be published on her Diamond Jubilee in 2012. One is an American biographer who has written about the Kennedy clan,the Clintons and even Princess Diana. The other is a French writer who,by her own admission,is little known for her work which includes a popular book on the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. But the authors Sally Bedell Smith and Isabelle Rivère have been going head-to-head to write the Queens biography,The Sunday Telegraph reported.
