Troops are first to die in vehicle brought in to protect against  IEDs in Afghanistan

Fake tunnels, trapdoors and dead-ends abound, suggesting only a select few actually know the correct routes down the rat-infested tunnels to the safety of the bunkers

PM promised a “full investigation” of the allegations

Prime Minister David Cameron said today that the UK had paid a "a very high price" for the work it was doing in Afghanistan after three soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack

Report shows surge in cases where a British judge has to step in

Jenson Button feels it is crucial he and Sergio Perez do not milk the fact that the McLaren team allows its drivers to race one another.

Salam Zaghal drew a large knife and killed Evyatar Borowski before reportedly firing at Israeli border police

Attack that hit 'top militant' is most serious test yet of the Egyptian-brokered truce

Ali Kafi, who died on 16 April at the age of 84, led Algeria for two years after the 1992 military coup that aimed to stop Islamists from winning a national election. Kafi led the High Committee of State from 1992-94 during the opening years of Algeria's bloody civil war with Islamic extremists. His rule followed the assassination of Mohammed Boudiaf, who was briefly president after generals forced Chadli Benjedid to resign. The civil war lasted more than a decade and cost 200,000 lives.

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off from the sprawling US Bagram airbase in Afghanistan with the Taliban claiming responsibility for “shooting down” the jet.

Poor eastern Europeans were promised large payments for kidneys and then abandoned

Family of Lee Bradley Brown raise new  concerns as UAE leader visits UK on state tour

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that his national security team has been receiving payments from the US government for the past 10 years.

At least 23 people were killed in Iraq on Monday in a series of car bombs in Shia Muslim areas and militant attacks, medics and police sources said – taking the week’s death toll to nearly 200 as sectarian violence intensifies.