• LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British soldier has died in fighting in southern Iraq -- the first British combat fatality of the campaign.

    CNN: British soldier killed in combat

  • He subsequently was declared the war's first combat death, but the U.S. Navy changed his status to missing in action in 2001 after receiving information that he may have survived.

    CNN: Report suggests missing pilot alive in Iraq

  • Elizabeth, the young woman Booker is sent to rescue (or abduct) for reasons and employers initially unknown, appears after the first sequence of combat, and her introduction is followed by a lengthy period of peaceful exploration, as the player gets accustomed to her presence.

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  • One of these, the Predator, had its first combat outing in the Afghanistan campaign.

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  • During World War II, America's P51 Mustang fighter, a single-engine prop plane, creamed the first fleet of German combat jets, the Messerschmitt 262.

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  • Beyond that, if my recommendations are approved, that unit's departure will be followed by the withdrawal of a brigade combat team without replacement in mid-December, and the further redeployment without replacement of four other brigade combat teams, and the two surge Marine battalions in the first seven months of 2008, until we reach the pre-surge levels of 15 brigade combat teams by mid-July 2008.

    NPR: Petraeus, Crocker Brief Congress on 'Surge'

  • The former defense secretary strongly believed that the United States should remove virtually all of its combat brigades by the first quarter of 2008.

    NPR: Compromise Required With the Iraq Study Group

  • The game features an overhauled combat system and, for the first time in the franchise, a player-vs-player component.

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  • That is when CIA operative Mike Spann was killed, the first U.S. combat casualty in Afghanistan.

    CNN: Walker: Prison uprising was 'mistake'

  • The news of the Fort Hood case comes as the military prepares for a historic move: opening combat roles to women for the first time.

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  • Margo MacDonald (Independent) asked the first minister whether any additional emergency measures were planned to combat the advance of obesity among the general population and, in particular, children.

    BBC: Photo of Scottish flag

  • In December, the Iraq Study Group recommended that 25 percent of the U.S. combat troops be withdrawn from Iraq by the first quarter of 2008 and said the remaining troops should be shifted to more secure positions.

    CNN: GOP senators increasingly demanding changes to war strategy

  • Still, I couldn't help think how much attitudes had changed from when I first reported on the women in combat debate in 1993.

    CNN: Behind the Scenes: Saluting a female general

  • So I would be interested in knowing whether they will commit to having all combat troops out and ending combat missions in the first year.

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  • Coming after a long, slow narrative slog, it's the first of a few stunningly staged combat interludes that borrow freely, and successfully, from Asia's martial-arts extravaganzas.

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  • In fact, I just spoke with the command sergeant major--that's the senior enlisted person in Afghanistan--the first time a woman has been the command sergeant major in a combat theater and that was her point completely is that it's more than a recruiting issue.

    NPR: Women in Combat: Rules and Reality

  • Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College, near Durham, is the first school in the north-east of England to introduce the system to combat truancy.

    BBC: Parents get a text message within minutes

  • The first three titles, Super Monday Night Combat from Uber Entertainment, Smashmuck Champions from Kiz Studios, and Bomb Buddies from Balanced Worlds, are now available to play from Kongregate.com.

    ENGADGET: Kongregate breaks free of the browser, serves up downloadable games

  • The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global body set up by the first President Bush, refined its 40 recommendations on how to combat money laundering, which in turn triggered the rewriting of bank laws across the globe.

    FORBES: Private Banking: R.I.P.

  • Events marking the first Africa Malaria Day are taking place across the continent focusing attention on efforts to combat the disease, which kills more than a million people every year, many of them children.

    BBC: Africa tackles Malaria scourge

  • Mark Vecchione of Eastham, Massachusetts became the first soldier from Cape Cod to die in combat in Iraq.

    NPR: Cape Cod Soldier Dies in Iraq

  • Just prior to the war in Iraq, Phillips became the first female journalist to fly in an F-14 air-to-air combat training mission over the Persian Gulf.

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  • Indeed, it was French combat aircraft on Saturday that fired the first shots of the allied action in Libya.

    WSJ: Allied Forces Attack Libya

  • What we need is some of these aggressive campaigns that are politically derived to combat the causes of cancer in the first place.

    CNN: Debaters Agree Cancer War Should Stress Prevention

  • The Italians forced Spurs into a dogged rearguard action for long spells to protect the slender lead Peter Crouch's goal gave them from the first leg in the San Siro and ensure they succeeded where arch-rivals Arsenal failed in European combat.

    BBC: Tottenham 0-0 AC Milan (agg 1-0)

  • This is the first pilgrimage to take place since U.S. combat forces completed their withdrawal from Iraqi cities and urban areas on June 30.

    CNN: Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq

  • He said this meant the UK had "not only to prepare and adapt to the challenge that climate change is going to bring us but also to do everything we possibly can here in this country to combat the causes of climate change in the first place".

    BBC: Lawson accused of 'profound' error on climate change

  • As it turns out, combat scenes hardly feature in the manga of the first decade after Japan surrendered to the Allied forces.

    CNN: The War Mangas

  • Most of the game is in first person though there are moments of vehicular combat that take you out of that point of view.

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  • For decades, up through the 1980s, some pilots carried guns on board--at first to protect the U.S. mail and then to combat hijackings.

    CNN: Pilots Packing Heat

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