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The Duchess of Cambridge Catherine Middleton, who was admitted to hospital in the early stages of labour on Saturday, gave birth to a daughter.

Kensington Palace informed that the birth went well and both the duchess and the baby were doing well, the BBC reports.

Injured troops from around the world are to do battle in London this week at Prince Harry's Invictus Games, which get under way Wednesday with a vibrant opening ceremony.
      
The prince, a British army captain who served two tours in Afghanistan, is the driving force behind the four days of competition across nine sports.
      

Britain's Prince William, grandson of Queen Elizabeth, and his wife Kate are expecting their second baby, Buckingham Palace said on Sept. 8.

The couple's first child, Prince George, was born in July last year amid a huge international media frenzy. William is second in line to the British throne, with George third.

British Prime Minister David Cameron named arch-eurosceptic Philip Hammond as his new foreign secretary on Tuesday in a major cabinet reshuffle ahead of next year's general election.
      
Former defence secretary Hammond, who replaces William Hague, supports Britain leaving the European Union in a referendum in 2017 unless significant powers are returned to London.

The anti-immigrant UK Independence Party (UKIP) has lambasted PM David Cameron over what it calls a pro-European policy "opening [the UK's] to Bulgarians and Romanians."

A UKIP statement quoted by the Bulgarian national Radio was in response to the Prime Minister's comments on Thursday.