If you want an engagement ring to rival those of Natalie Portman’s and Reese Witherspoon’s, there’s one about to go under the hammer in Ireland.

Director Sam Taylor-Johnson was left red-faced after police were called to her home when a passer-by spotted a machine gun on a desk inside the house.

Snow drifts and abandoned vehicles continue to hamper efforts to restore power to 800 homes and businesses cut off when blizzard conditions hit the North.

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A former regular soldier who was born in Co Derry has been killed in Afghanistan while working for a private security firm, it was confirmed today.

An Irish soldier injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan is recovering well, his father said today.

Margaret Thatcher was warned the British Army suspected the Ulster Defence Regiment was heavily infiltrated by Protestant extremists in the North four years before she became UK Prime Minister, it was claimed today.

A British Territorial soldier appeared before a court martial today in connection with alleged faked photographs which appeared to show British troops abusing an Iraqi.

NEARLY 300 Iraqi detainees, some weeping, were released from the Abu Ghraib prison yesterday, a day after Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit, insisting the Pentagon did not try to cover up abuses there.

A Catholic member of the Territorial Army has received damages for suffering sectarian harassment and discrimination for more than 11 years in Northern Ireland, it emerged today.

Saddam Hussein could poison water supplies to kill his own people before he is driven from power, military sources said today.

BRITISH police are to receive powers to impose “emergency cordons” across major cities to stop people getting away after a terrorist strike, it was confirmed yesterday.

Police in the UK are to receive powers to impose “emergency cordons” across major cities to stop people getting away after a terrorist strike, it was confirmed today.

A 51-year-old civilian worker died today after an explosion at a Territorial army camp in Derry, police confirmed.

THE sister of an Irishman found guilty of murdering TV presenter Jill Dando said her brother had been denied justice yesterday after he lost his appeal against the conviction in a London court.

A former Sunday Times chief reporter said today he had spoken to a paratrooper who admitted the regiment had killed innocent civilians on Bloody Sunday.

The British government is poised to announce the first compulsory call up of army reserves since the Suez crisis to help in the war on terrorism, it was reported today.

America was tonight put in a heightened state of security alert and the Emmy awards, television’s equivalent of the Oscars, were cancelled after the first strikes on Afghanistan.

Detectives were today waiting to interview a young cadet who lost his hand when a torch bomb exploded at a Territorial Army base.

A 14-year-old boy has lost his hand after picking up a device which exploded.