The Trump administration has declared that its relief efforts in Puerto Rico are succeeding, but people on the island said help was scarce eight days after Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory.

US defence chiefs said today that they are monitoring the movements of two Russian submarines patrolling off the east coast of America.

An Israeli army general said claimed that Iranian troops are helping Hezbollah guerrillas fire Iranian-made rockets at Israel.

The British army’s top agent inside the IRA was in hiding today after his cover was blown in an exposure that rocked the republican movement to its core.

Scotland Yard chief John Stevens could quiz the British army’s top spy inside the IRA about a spate of sectarian murders within days, it emerged today.