Two Co Armagh soldiers have broken a Guinness World Record for running – in the blazing heat of the southern Afghanistan front line.

PRINCE Harry’s regiment will learn today whether or not it is to be sent to Iraq in the latest round of troop deployments.

A three-day security crackdown involving hundreds of British troops was launched in Basra today, a military spokesman announced.

Around 1,500 civilian jobs are to be axed as part of a sweeping military normalisation programme in Northern Ireland, it was announced today.