BRIAN P O CINNEIDE states: “The US Military Academy at West Point is one of the finest engineering universities in the world. All its graduates are qualified engineers.”

Action on a global scale must be taken to curb the development of military killer robots that think for themselves, a leading British expert said today.

The instinct that makes cockroaches creepy is being used to develop safer aircraft.

THREE young girls were the first to lay flowers near the spot where the bodies were found.

Three young girls tonight knelt down to lay flowers near the spot where the bodies feared to be those of missing Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were found.

Two injured crew members on a dismasted and holed British yacht were airlifted to safety today in a dramatic dawn rescue, coastguards said.

Rescuers searching for two missing US fighter aircraft in the Cairngorms have found a body attached to a parachute.