Irrespective of the bill, the hunt provides a perfect training opportunity, writes Leon Drouin-Keith

If you are selling or donating your laptop or phone, have it wiped professionally, otherwise data can be retrieved years later, says John Hearne.

Imagine if Google just … vanished. Here’s what we’d be stuck with.

The US military has evacuated its non-essential government personnel from Yemen due to the high threat of attack by al Qaida which has caused temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa

The WikiLeaks website began publishing yesterday what it said were more than 100 US Defence Department files detailing military detention policies in camps in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay in the years after the Sept 11 attacks.

Afghanistan's untapped mineral wealth is worth at least $3 trillion (€2.4 trillion) - triple a US estimate, according to the government's top mining official.

Somali pirates hijacked a cargo ship with 21 Americans on board today.

US President Barack Obama is expected to make a number of key appointments and policy announcements during the course of his first day in office.

The US Department of Defence said today it would seek a 120-day halt to the war crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay, pending a review by President Barack Obama.

The self-styled mastermind behind the September 11 terror attacks and four of his co-defendants face possible execution after telling a military judge at Guantanamo Bay that they wanted to plead guilty.

The US military is turning to the realms of science fiction in a bid to invent a flying submarine, authorities said today.

Pakistan's president and prime minister were due to dine at the luxury hotel destroyed in a weekend bombing but changed their minds at the last moment, it emerged today.

LIBERTAS founder Declan Ganley has rejected claims that US interests opposed to Lisbon funded his organisation’s campaign against the treaty.

The head of the British Army during the invasion of Iraq has labelled post-war US policy “intellectually bankrupt”, it was reported today.

EUROPE’S taxpayers may have to fund the €3 billion Galileo satellite system after companies involved in a public-private partnership failed to agree this week.

THE killing of friendly fire victim Matty Hull in Iraq four years ago was a “criminal, unlawful act” tantamount to manslaughter, a coroner ruled yesterday.

The Pentagon has released new details of allegations against three high-profile terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay in a move condemned by a defence lawyer as a tactic to inspire moral condemnation.

An abundance of vitamin D seems to help prevent multiple sclerosis, according to a study in more than seven million people that offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the power of the “sunshine vitamin” against MS.

Suspected insurgents set off a car bomb to stop a minibus carrying Shiite government employees in Baghdad, then shot and killed 15 of them, the Iraqi government said.

A UN investigation has concluded that the United States committed acts amounting to torture at Guantanamo Bay, including force-feeding detainees and subjecting them to prolonged solitary confinement, according to a draft report obtained today.

A commercial helicopter crashed north of the Iraqi capital today, killing nine people, the US Embassy said.

A land mine exploded under a US vehicle south of the Afghan capital of Kabul today, killing four soldiers in the deadliest incident for American troops there in almost 10 months, the military said.

US military officials will investigate charges of abuse against terrorist suspects being interrogated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, authorities announced.

Three American counter-terrorism vigilantes accused of running a private jail in Afghanistan appeared in court today and denied charges that they tortured eight prisoners.

Suicide attackers detonated explosive-laden boats near oil facilities in the Gulf, killing two US Navy sailors in a new tactic against Iraq’s vital oil industry.

A car bomb exploded outside the main gate to the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition today, killing 23 people, including two Americans who may have been civilian contractors, U.S. officials said.

ParthusCeva has been awarded a contract by the US government for the design of a high-performance Global Positioning System for military testing and research.

NORTH Korea yesterday accused the United States of plotting a nuclear attack on the communist country and condemned Washington’s decision to send additional long-range bombers to Guam.

NORTH Korean media yesterday accused the US of pushing into full swing preparations for nuclear war against the communist state, and warned such a war could wreak havoc.

SAUDI ARABIA is an enemy of the US and should be warned to halt its “support” for terrorism or face seizure of its oil fields, analysts told the Pentagon.

Saudi Arabia is an enemy of the US and should be warned to halt its "support" for terrorism or face seizure of its oil fields, analysts told the Pentagon.

The US Department of Defence has claimed that Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden’s deputy may