Leinster’s Hayden Triggs is no household name, but the veteran Kiwi lock gave an interview yesterday that should grab everyone’s attention when admitting he is “scared” by the spike in concussions and other injuries in modern rugby.

An officer has been thrown out of the New Zealand Army for deliberately shooting a British soldier during a drunken row.

A controversial French philosopher has reiterated claims that the Gulf War never happened.

Pentagon officials are investigating what went wrong in a training exercise in Kuwait in which a US navy warplane dropped a bomb on military personnel, killing six people.

A US Navy warplane mistakenly bombed soldiers during a training exercise in Kuwait, killing five Americans and a New Zealander.