1.   Blair said the submarines had joined in a U.S.-led attack on Taliban military facilities and forces in Afghanistan at the request of Washington.

2.   Blair said the submarines had joined in the U.S.-led attack on Taliban military facilities and forces in Afghanistan at the request of Washington.

3.   British submarines joined in the first day of attacks in Afghanistan, and Britain moved quickly to get troops on the ground after the Taliban abandoned Kabul.

4.   Twisted and broken, hundreds of feet down in the Barents Sea, the Russian submarine Kursk joins other nuclear debris sunken or discarded in Arctic waters.

5.   BCC quoted an unnamed source in Beijing as saying two submarines would join the combined exercises.