Bangkok- Thailand's foreign ministry has issued a protest letter to the Economist magazine about two articles that appeared in its December 6-12 issue on the sensitive topic of the Thai monarchy, officials said Friday.

"The letter will appear in the next issue of the Economist," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Tharit Charungvat, who penned the letter.

Although the magazine was not officially banned, Thai distributors of last week's Economist did not import the issue which contained two articles on the monarchy under the titled "A right royal mess" and "The King and them."

London, Dec 12 : Prince Harry will return to front line in Afghanistan to become an Army Air Corps helicopter pilot after passing the unit''s selection process.

The Royal has passed a four-week selection process and will begin his pilot training next month, following in the footsteps of the Duke of York who flew helicopters in the Royal Navy in the Falklands War.

Madrid - Spanish inflation dipped to 2.4 per cent in November, down from 3.6 per cent in October, in its steepest monthly slide since January 1987, according to government data released Friday.

Nairobi, Kampala - Uganda on Friday confirmed that the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia will pull out should Ethiopia stick to its promise of withdrawing its troops before the end of the

Washington, Dec. 12 : A Senate Armed Services Committee report has blamed Bush administration officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for the abuses committed by American troops during interrogations at the Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq; the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba; and other military detention centers.

London, Dec 12 : Seal has revealed that wife Heidi Klum broke the news of her pregnancy after their first date.

At the time, Klum was having the baby of her former partner, Renault Formula 1 team director Flavio Briatore.

Seal has come a long way from his days of poverty and abuse at the hands of his father to marrying Klum in 2005.

He first saw the German model at a London awards dinner, after which they met again at an exclusive New York gym when he was wearing only a towel.

Reportedly Heidi got to see rather more of him than she bargained for when he accidentally flashed her.