The lawyer for a jailed Army private suspected of leaking classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website says his client was stripped of all his clothing at night because he had made sarcastic comments about using underwear to commit suicide.

Investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained today - the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified US documents.

Uganda: PFC Energy, a US oil and gas industry consultant, backed a planned partnership between Tullow Oil Plc, Total SA and China National Offshore Oil Corp to develop Uganda’s oil fields, the East African nation’s presidency said.

The Taliban released a video today purporting to show a US soldier who was captured more than five months ago in eastern Afghanistan.

A US soldier convicted of rape and murder in an attack on an Iraqi teenager and her family has been sentenced to 110 years in prison.

A soldier was sentenced to 90 years in prison with the possibility of parole in 20 years for conspiring to rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and kill her and her family.

Pfc Lynndie England, who appeared in some of the most graphic photographs depicting physical mistreatment and sexual humiliation of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, pleaded guilty today to charges arising from her role in the abuse scandal.

THE US soldier labelled the ringleader in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal started a 10-year jail sentence yesterday.

American troops were today searching for more US prisoners of war in Iraq after the daring rescue of a 19-year-old army supply clerk held for nine days in central city of Nasiriyah.

A COURT ruling in Belfast yesterday could force the British Government and the Police Service of Northern Ireland to reopen murder cases involving the army and members of the RUC.