It is 100 years since a little known music hall act wrote the song that became the marching anthem of the First World War, outlasting it to become one of the most popular songs of the 20th century, writes David Robson

A British soldier from 2nd Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles has been killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan, the British Ministry of Defence said today.

Two British soldiers were killed in Iraq today, the Ministry of Defence said.

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

ON April 27, 1916, three days after Patrick Pearse stepped onto the portico of the General Post Office in Dublin to proclaim the new Irish Republic, 2,128 men of the 16th (Irish) Division suffered horrifically from a German gas attack.

Two US soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy in southern Baghdad.

The senior army officer who was the army’s helicopter observer on Bloody Sunday today said he only had a limited view of events - and that he had lobbied to handle the march differently.

British military and Afghan police were today investigating a family’s claims that they were shot at by British paratroopers in Kabul.

An advance party of British troops was today setting out for Macedonia to begin Nato’s reconnaissance mission in the troubled Balkan state.