LONDON - A British soldier serving on the front line in Afghanistan has given birth at the Nato base where she is posted. The woman, who gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, did not know she was pregnant, British media reports said. According to Britain's Daily Mail the woman, reportedly to be from Fiji, only discovered she was pregnant when she went to medics complaining of severe stomach pains and was told she was about to give birth. The baby was born five weeks premature, it said. AFP
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai reshuffled top leadership in one quarter of the country's 38 provinces yesterday, firing American-backed governor and other local leaders. Among those fired is governor Gulab Mangal, who had ran the volatile southern province of Helmand during the height of the Taliban insurgency. Mangal was respected by both British and American officials. AP