London  - A newspaper Friday issued an unreserved apology to Britain's royal family for wrongly reporting earlier this week that Prince Philip, the 87-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was suffering from prostate cancer.

In an unusual step, London's Evening Standard newspaper said on its front page Friday that the "distressing allegation" was untrue and constituted a breach of privacy.

In its apology, the paper said the duke was "not suffering from any such condition."

"We unreservedly apologize both to him and to his family for making this distressing allegation and for breaching his privacy," it said.

London, July 1 : Archaeologists have broken the seal of the barrel of a 400 year old cannon that was recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck off Alderney in the UK.

According to a report in The Times, the barrel of the cannon had been plugged with a tampion of wood and sealed with candle wax by sailors more than 400 years ago.

The cannon is one of a set that comprises the first archaeological evidence of a revolution in weaponry that took place during the reign of Elizabeth I – a revolution upon which an empire would be built.

The archaeologists have spent the past month raising the cannon from the seabed off the Channel Islands and will use it to determine the power that this revolution bestowed upon the English naval forces.

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London, March 8: Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Phil

London, Mar 3: Prince Harry is in line to receive an Operational Service Medal for