A blast that tore through an electric bus in the southern Russian city of Volgograd during Monday’s morning rush hour, killing 14, was probably carried out by suicide bombers from the same organisation behind a railway explosion a day earlier, officials said.

The Conversations exhibition at IMMA reflects on the relationship between photographers and their subjects, Carl Dixon reports.

A re-enactment of a Second World War battle in Normandy was been cancelled amid fears it could encourage neo-Nazi support, it emerged today.

US WAR hero Guy Gabaldon, who as an 18-year-old private in the US Marines persuaded up to 1,000 Japanese soldiers to surrender in the Second World War battle for Saipan, has died.

Japan’s Emperor Akihito bowed deeply atop a Saipan cliff where his countrymen plunged to their deaths to avoid capture by US troops and – for the first time - paid his respects today to the Koreans killed on the tiny Pacific island in a key Second World War battle.