How many troops are going to withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year?

Wednesday night at the White House, President Barrack Obama announced the phased withdrawal of 10, 000 U. S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, with a target of removing the rest of a 33,000 surge force by the end of next year.

A number of BBC radio services are coming to an end. They include the BBC Caribbean Service, which began in 1939, one of the oldest services the BBC has provided in English. It’s the last of five language services being shut down by the BBC because of cuts in government funding. Mandarin Chinese and Azeri language broadcasts on radio also stopped today. A number of World Service programmes in English are ending, including Europe Today, which has made its final broadcast.