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Royal Wedding hat sells for over $130,000 on eBay (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2011 04:55 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday , April 29, 2011 file picture Britain's Princess Beatrice, leaves after the wedding service in Westminster Abbey at the Royal Wedding in London. Online auctioneer eBay says that bids for one of the wackiest pieces of royal wedding headgear have approached 18,400 pounds ($30,000.) Princess Beatrice's massive, ring-and-bow-shaped hat, turned heads at the wedding of her cousin Prince William last month and has since become an Internet sensation. The Philip Treacy creation has been compared to a toilet seat or a pretzel, and has been endlessly photoshopped to feature, for example, a cat crawling through it. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, File)AP - Auction site eBay says a bidder has paid 81,100 pounds ($131,648) for the silk bow hat worn by Princess Beatrice to last month's royal wedding.

Princess Beatrice's wacky wedding hat sells for £81,100 (AFP)

Posted: 22 May 2011 01:00 PM PDT

The flamboyant hat worn by Princess Beatrice at last month's British royal wedding was Sunday sold for the princely sum of £81,100 ($131,652, 93,171 euros) on internet auction site eBay.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The flamboyant hat worn by Princess Beatrice at last month's royal wedding was Sunday sold for the princely sum of £81,100 on internet auction site eBay.

Wife of British diplomat plunges to death in NYC (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2011 10:00 AM PDT

AP - The wife of a British diplomat has died in an apparent suicide plunge from the roof of her New York City apartment building.

Rescuers say 1 of Scottish loch whales has died (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2011 09:23 AM PDT

AP - Rescue workers say 60 pilot whales that risked becoming beached on a Scottish island may have been accompanying a sick member of their pod.

British end military mission in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2011 06:29 AM PDT

AP - The last of Britain's military forces in Iraq pulled up anchor Sunday, ending more than eight years of fighting militants and training security forces since invading in 2003.

British military ends its 8-year mission in Iraq (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2011 04:43 AM PDT

Iraqi children look for salvageable items amid the debris at the scene of an explosion in the Baghdad district of Sadr City. More than a dozen bomb attacks in and around Baghdad on Sunday left at least 19 Iraqis and two American soldiers dead and more than 80 other people wounded.(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - British operations in Iraq are officially ending, more than eight years after the country joined the U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein.

Obama says he'd repeat bin Laden raid (AP)

Posted: 22 May 2011 01:57 AM PDT

AP - U.S. President Barack Obama says he would order another covert military raid like that which killed Osama bin Laden if it was necessary to stop terrorist attacks.

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