Hopes were fading today for three popular fishermen missing since yesterday morning as coastguards found an object on the sea bed.

A Royal Navy frigate has undertaken three counter-piracy operations during a seven-month deployment in the Indian Ocean.

Sometimes it seems that the more you produce and the better you write, the less you are likely to be remembered.

The underwater films of the late Jacques Cousteau enchanted and entranced several generations of cinema-goers and TV viewers throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s and played an important part in raising environmental awareness. The diver, Albert Falco, was Cousteau's right-hand man for 37 years and helped make the Oscar-winning documentaries The Silent World in 1956 and World Without Sun in 1964, as well as the celebrated television series The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau.

The commanding officer of a Royal Navy submarine that ran aground off the Isle of Skye failed to "appreciate the proximity of danger", lacked charts and was uncomfortable navigating in the dark, according to the findings of an official inquiry.

The US Navy is initiating dismissal proceedings against two Marines from a squad that killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005.

A run of flops could spell the end of the macho supermovie, says Francesca Steele

Herman Wouk is so old he remembers Simon and Schuster (the people)... which is a good thing because the great American novelist has sold his new book to the publishers at the age of 96.

A suspected submerged submarine has been discovered in Northern Ireland, the Government has said.

The United States Navy has deployed a second aircraft carrier to the Gulf region amid rising tensions with Iran over its nuclear programme.

A plume of smoke billows above the Thames Estuary yesterday as a bomb-disposal team destroys a German mine from the Second World War.

Britain criticised for 'particularly poor record' in international crackdown on Indian Ocean piracy

A US navy jet crashed in Virginia today with the two pilots aboard believed to have ejected before the impact, according to reports.

Crowds of people gathered today to wave off one of the Royal Navy's newest and most powerful warships as it set sail for the Falkland Islands a day before the 30th anniversary of the British task force setting sail for war.