A former garda has been acquitted of beating a British Armed Forces commando about the head and back with a wheel brace following a night out.

An Afghan soldier has been sentenced to death for killing four French soldiers during a joint training and operation in eastern Afghanistan.

Two members of the French Foreign Legion have been shot dead by a soldier in the Afghan National Army.

Twelve foreign soldiers, including seven Americans, were killed in separate attacks on the deadliest day of the year for Western forces in Afghanistan.

The heartbroken mother of a teacher abducted and murdered by republicans in Paris sat by her window every day for 10 years waiting for her son to return, it was revealed today.

READ it carefully. Today, 15 teams bid to scale the highest peak in each of the 32 counties in 100 hours or less.

John Meyler believes his side can upset the odds against Kilkenny. He spoke to Diarmuid O’Flynn.

HOW dare John Fitzgerald suggest that knife-wielding thugs and drug addicts should be conscripted into the armed forces (Irish Examiner letters, October 31).

A FORMER member of the French Foreign Legion, who survived an attack by Iraqi insurgents in which 22 of his colleagues died, underwent major surgery at Cork University Hospital yesterday.

AN IRISH security man who had a miracle escape when 22 of his colleagues were killed in an ambush in Iraq is expected to return home tomorrow.

AN Irishman, working with a private security firm in Iraq, is recovering in hospital after surviving a car bomb attack that killed several colleagues.

Channel 4 are to put three obsessive compulsive disorder sufferers in a house together for a new TV show.

The apparent kidnapping of a Japanese man by a militant group in Iraq will not affect Tokyo’s troop deployment there, Japan’s defence chief said today as officials vowed to make every effort to win his release.

Some of Arsenal’s French Foreign Legion have not yet signed long term deals with the club, but Xavier Rivoire reports that the signs are good for the North London outfit that they will hold on to their legionaires.