CANBERRA, Australia — Britain's Prince William and his wife, Kate, have ended their 10-day tour of Australia with veterans' day commemorations in the national capital.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended a ceremony at the Australian War Memorial today marking the 99th anniversary of the ill-fated Allied troop landing on Turkey's Gallipoli Peninsula.

Their baby George later cried as the family boarded an Australian air force plane at Canberra airport after they were bid farewell by Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II’s biographer and longtime spokesman are trying to defend his record on sex abuse against evidence that he grasped the scale of the scandal only late in his papacy.They argue that John Paul’s decision in 2002 — 24 years after his election as pontiff — to summon U.S. cardinals to Rome shows he acted decisively once he learned about the problem.U.S. bishops had petitioned the Holy See for faster ways to defrock pedophile priests since the late 1980s.