What is ‘gay’ about a bad pass, a missed penalty, a poor free kick? Why are players ‘gay’ if they don’t jump into every 50/50 tackle without a care for a career-ending injury?

Deputy prime minister drew outrage for saying Japan should learn from how the Nazi party stealthily changed Germany's inter-war constitution

While President Assad, buoyed by a recent win in Homs, has praised his soldier's bravery in the face of 'the fiercest barbaric war in modern history'

Like the US military's 'America's Army', 'Glorious Mission' is intended to appeal to both combat soldiers and would-be recruits

The retired Indian general whose throat was slashed in an attack in London has been the target of eight assassination attempts by Sikh militants in revenge for his leadership of the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple of Amritsar, he told The Independent in an interview.

A soldier who posthumously received one of only two Victoria Crosses awarded for exceptional bravery in Afghanistan was killed by his own grenade, an inquest heard.

Aso said Japan could learn from the way the Nazi party stealthily changed Germany's constitution without anyone realising

The Ministry of Defence is being sued for negligence in a landmark case by the family of a military policeman who was killed in one of the most notorious episodes of the Iraq war.

A third soldier who died from injuries sustained in SAS selection training in mid-Wales last month, was today named as Corporal James Dunsby.

Almost 300 people have been killed in weeks of violence since the army deposed the former president

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Both Mugabe's ZANU-PF party and his rival Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC predict landslide victories

Charge carried possible life sentence, although he will now be sentenced after convictions on lesser charges of espionage and theft

Powerful union has called for the dissolution of the ruling coalition