The search is continuing this evening for five men missing after a cargo ship sank in the Irish Sea last night.

A woman in Britain was pulled alive from the wreckage of her car today after it plunged 100ft off a cliff top on to the beach below.

Britain's Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon expressed regret today over the “tragic” deaths of two British soldiers whose tank was mistaken for Iraqi armour and destroyed by “friendly fire“.

THE names of three Royal Navy officers who died when two British helicopters collided in the Gulf at the weekend were released yesterday.