90th birthday

Queen's 90th birthday: St Paul's service marks Queen's 'faithful devotion'

A portrait of the Queen and Prince Philip was taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz to mark the Queen's birthday

A national service of thanksgiving to mark the Queen's 90th birthday at St Paul's Cathedral has paid tribute to her "faithful devotion" to the country.

Dean of St Paul's David Ison thanked the Queen for her "gentle constancy, royal dignity and kindly humanity".

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the Queen had reigned through "war and hardship, turmoil and change".

The service was attended by many Royal Family members, including the Duke of Edinburgh - on his own 95th birthday.

The Queen has two birthdays - her real birthday on 21 April, and her official birthday held on a Saturday in June - in a tradition going back 250 years. It was introduced to try to ensure better weather for the monarch's official celebrations.

The Queen turned 90 in April; Prince Philip is 95 today

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death in Bangladesh

Hindu monastery worker hacked to death in Bangladesh

Unidentified attackers have hacked a 62-year-old Hindu monastery worker to death in Bangladesh — the latest in a series of such attacks on religious minorities in the mainly-Muslim country.

 Militants in Bangladesh have killed more than 30 people since 

Several attackers hacked him in the neck ... he died on the spot," local police chief Abdullah Al-Hasan said.

He had been working at the monastery for around 40 years.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for this latest killing.

However, the head of police in the north-western district of Pabna where the Shri Shri Thakur Anukulchandra Ashram is located, said the killing bore the hallmarks of recent attacks by Islamist extremists.

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