The British poet Ted Hughes, who died in 1998, has
been honoured with
a memorial in London's Westminster Abbey. It lies in the famous Poets' Corner alongside the graves and memorials of other writers, including Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. Rebecca Jones has this report.
Carved into the border of the Welsh slate memorial honouring Ted Hughes are
poignant
lines from his poem That Morning. "So we found the end of our journey," they read. "So we stood alive in the river of light, among the creatures of light, creatures of light." The stone is set into the floor here in Poets' Corner. At a ceremony attended by family, friends and fellow writers, it's being unveiled by the Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney.
The authorities in Libya have pledged to make the capital Tripoli a weapons-free zone by the end of December. A statement by the interim prime minister's office gave armed militias from outside Tripoli a two-week deadline to leave, threatening to close the city to traffic if they failed to do so. The statement was echoed by the president of Tripoli's city council.
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A suicide bomb attack on Shia Muslim worshippers in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 160 others. The blast happened on the most holy day of the Shia calendar. From Kabul, Quentin Sommerville reports.
阿富汗首都喀布尔什叶派穆斯林朝圣者遭受自杀式炸弹袭击,至少58人死亡,60多人受伤。爆炸发生在什叶派年历最神圣的一天,Quentin Sommerville在喀布尔报道。