Staff at Papua New Guinea facility ‘turned blind eye to abuse’, claims former guard

Oscar Quine met some of them

Two late scores from Richard Whiting gave resilient Hull a shock win over one of Super League’s pacesetters last night.

Marijuana, with an estimated street value of $3.4 million discovered by a trooper during routine vehicle check

The Italian Foreign Minister quit today after his government returned two marines to India to face trial for killing two fishermen.

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Fresh doubts over the armed forces' ability to cope with protracted conflicts are raised today in a report exposing "critical gaps" in air operations.

Given the widespread devastation, it is no surprise that the Obama administration has designated Hurricane Sandy a "major disaster". The "superstorm" – the largest in the Atlantic since records began in 1851 – beat a path nearly 1,000 miles wide across one of the most populous parts of North America, winds of more than 80 miles-per-hour spreading destruction from Massachusetts to the Carolinas.

Esso and one of its contractors are to be prosecuted over the death of a sailor at one of Europe's largest oil refineries, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said today.

At least 92 people were killed yesterday when a petrol tanker crashed in the Niger Delta and caught fire as people tried to scoop up fuel.

A wildfire 60 miles away wrapped Denver in a pungent cloud of smoke for several hours and complicated the aerial offensive against the spreading mountain blaze, which has killed one person and destroyed more than 100 structures.

Fuel tanker drivers who were re-balloted for strikes have voted against walkouts but in favour of other forms of industrial action.

An Army veteran who crashed a tanker laden with 2,000 litres of fuel into his estranged wife's home in an attempt to destroy it has been jailed for seven years.