Solo Sailor MacArthur Given Hero's Welcome Home
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FALMOUTH, England  - Ringed by a flotilla of fans,  Britain's Ellen MacArthur sailed home to a rapturous welcome  Tuesday after breaking the record for sailing solo round the  world.
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Ellen MacArthur sets a new solo fastest time to the equator in her round-the-world record bid.
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Elite Australian troops arrived in the troubled Solomon Islands on Thursday as the body of an Australian peacekeeper, the first casualty of Canberra&#39;s tough South Pacific security policy, arrived home.
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Villagers on the remote Japanese isle of Sado have warmly welcomed U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins since he arrived with his Japanese wife and their two North Korea-born daughters a week ago, his wife said Tuesday.
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ANYANG, South Korea  - Nineteen South Korean Christian volunteers held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan for six weeks returned home to an uncomfortable welcome on Sunday, thanking their government for winning their release.
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NEW YORK -- In an Aug. 17 story about the death of Carl Mydans, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Mydans took a photo of Gen. Douglas MacArthur wading ashore on his return to the Philippines in 1944. The photo was taken in ...
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Putting the four decades he spent as a US Army deserter in North Korea behind him, Charles Jenkins was greeted Tuesday by cheering crowds in his wife&#39;s hometown on this wind-swept Japanese island.
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ABOARD THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD -- When Lance Corporal Keith Delatorre boarded this warship in San Diego a month ago, he thought he was on his way to Iraq. Now, he's loading up his gear for a very different mission, bringing badly needed aid to Indonesians left isolated by the tsunami that battered coastlines along the Indian Ocean.
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The Army reserve unit at the center of the Iraqi prison scandal got a delayed but heartfelt welcome home Friday from about 400 friends and family.
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Tokyo - US army deserter Charles Jenkins, who spent nearly four decades in North Korea, finally saw freedom on Tuesday as he left a US base with his Japanese wife for a new home on a small island north of Tokyo.
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arrived on a remote island in northern Japan to start a new life with his Japanese wife and their two daughters. court-martial last month after saying he deserted from South Korea because he was frightened.
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Ellen MacArthur is made a Dame as she arrives in the UK after sailing solo around the world in record time.
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Ellen MacArthur solves some of the problems threatening to end her bid to break the solo round-the-world record.
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Ellen MacArthur, 28, cruised in triumph into Falmouth harbor today to claim a new record for sailing nonstop and solo around the world.
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A former U.S. army sergeant who deserted  to North Korea nearly four decades ago left a U.S. military  base near Tokyo on Tuesday for a new life with his family in  his Japanese wife's home town.
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A British-built Canadian navy submarine, crippled by a fatal fire at sea three months ago, left Scotland for its new home part, safely tucked inside the hull of a Norwegian transport ship.
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FALMOUTH, England  - Britain's Ellen MacArthur  became the fastest person to sail solo round the world Monday,  completing her gruelling journey in just over 71 days and 14  hours and smashing the record set last year.