One Marine was killed and 21 other people taken to hospital after a US Marine Corps Osprey aircraft crashed in Hawaii, with dark smoke from the resulting fire billowing into the sky.

Thousands of fear-stricken people spent the night outdoors after a new earthquake killed dozens of people and spread more misery in Nepal.

How amazing is this.

Last Sunday, St Martin’s Eve, was also the 238th birthday of the US Marine Corps, a naval infantry whose ranks have included many Irish.

Will Smith is in talks for the 'Independence Day' sequel.

No other sport throws up tragic figures quite like boxing.

A real life “guardian angel” from the “Gate of Heaven” saved Jacqueline Kennedy from drowning when she holidayed in Co Waterford in 1967.

The US Senate has approved President Barack Obama’s choice to lead US and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

A former US serviceman arrested in Honolulu for sending emails from Thailand threatening to kill Vice President Joe Biden has pleaded guilty.

Britain's Prince Harry may have been the primary target of an attack on the Camp Bastion military compound in Afghanistan, it was claimed today.

The US Marine Corps once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the Nazi SS - the special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.

The US Marine Corps said it is investigating a video depicting what appears to be four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.

JOHN FENTON should be looking forward to celebrating son Matthew’s 30th birthday this month — instead he will visit the Cork cemetery where he keeps a memorial to the US Marine Corps sergeant who died from the terrible injuries he suffered in Iraq in 2006.

US General David Petraeus, Washington’s new intelligence chief, handed over command of US and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan after a tentative start was made to a gradual process of transferring security to Afghan forces.

CONGRATS to Maureen O’Hara on her award from the US Marine Corps (News, June 22).

THE US Marine Corps last night honoured screen legend Maureen O’Hara for one of her great war-time movie roles, which it says helped boost recruitment during the Second World War.

A CONTINGENT of the US Marine Corps known as “The Wild Geese”, will compete in the inaugural international festival of hurling at Semple Stadium, Thurles on July 8 and 9.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama pledged yesterday that US forces would stand by Afghanistan even after Nato-led troops hand control of the fight against Taliban insurgents to Afghan forces in 2014.

The US and Chinese militaries have finished two days of talks on maritime security, the first such discussions since China broke off military contact in protest at the US sale of arms to Taiwan.

President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the US Marine Corps told the Senate today Congress should not repeal the law barring gays from serving openly in the military, dealing a blow to gay rights advocates just hours before a crucial vote.

British troops are to be pulled out of the Sangin area of Afghanistan, where nearly a third of UK deaths in the war have occurred.

The fiercest military offensive on the Taliban since the conflict in Afghanistan began has so far gone “as well as it could have done”, British Army chiefs said today.

IT grieves me that my remarks (Letters, June 16) in relation to soldiers and doctors and their relative usefulness in Haiti have caused offence — they were not intended to hurt. Nothing is as painful for a parent of any nationality as having to bury his son and my heart goes out to John Fenton. (Letters, January 19).

An American defence contractor said today it would stop stamping bible references on combat rifle sights sold to the US Army and Marines and the Australian and New Zealand military.

IN his letter (January 16), Patrick Dolan asks what Haiti needs most — marines or doctors? I think I can answer his naivete: Haiti needs both.

A British journalist was killed in an explosion in Afghanistan yesterday, the British Ministry of Defence announced today.

Nine victims of a mid-air collision between a coastguard aircraft and a US Marine Corps helicopter were feared dead today as the investigation focused on how the crews failed to see each other in a heavily-used military training area.

Richard Egan, who rose from street child to the US ambassador to Ireland after making millions of dollars founding data storage giant EMC Corp, died after a battle with lung cancer.

A senior US congressman has called on the US Marine Corps to release the maintenance records of all fighter jets of the type that lost power and crashed into a San Diego, California, neighbourhood, killing four members of a Korean family.

The US Marine Corps is expelling one soldier and disciplining another for their roles in a video showing a lance corporal throwing a puppy off a cliff while on patrol in Iraq.

US Navy ships laden with relief supplies steamed away from Burma’s coast today, their helicopters barred by the ruling junta even though millions of cyclone survivors need food, shelter or medical care.

The US Marine Corps has dropped charges and given full immunity to a serviceman who was accused of involuntary manslaughter in a squad’s killing of 24 Iraqis in Haditha in 2005.

THE Irish presence is very strong in the US security field — as we are reminded by the recent story that US Central Command chief (covering the Middle East), Adm William J Fallon, is resigning and the acting chief will be Army Lt-Gen Martin Dempsey.

Afghanistan risks sliding into a failed state and becoming the “forgotten war” because of deteriorating international support and a growing violent insurgency, according to an independent US study.

Iraq’s security forces will be unable to take control of the country in the next 18 months and Baghdad’s national police force is so rife with corruption it should be scrapped entirely, according to a new independent assessment.

Detailed plans for the new US embassy being built in Baghdad have appeared online in a major breach of the tight security surrounding the sensitive project that will be America’s largest diplomatic mission abroad.

A US Marine Corps squad leader has been charged with murdering 12 people and ordering other Marines under his command to kill six people during an incident that left 24 civilians dead in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year.

A US Marine Corps squad leader was charged today with murdering 12 people and ordering other Marines under his command to kill six people during an incident that left 24 civilians dead in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year.

A US Marine Corps squad leader was charged today with 13 murder counts stemming from the killings of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year, his attorney said.

The top Russian and US military officers met in Moscow today to discuss bi-lateral military ties, and the Russian general said the day’s talks would end in the signing of a plan for closer co-operation.

Nato defence ministers face a tense meeting in Portoroz, Slovenia, today with their Russian counterpart, Sergei Ivanov, after the Western alliance angered Moscow last week by agreeing to deepen co-operation with Georgia.

Nato defence ministers yesterday approved an extension of the alliance’s Afghan security mission across the entire country, taking in the volatile eastern region and bringing up to 12,000 more US troops under allied command.

The US Marine Corps today planned to charge seven Marines and one sailor with murder in connection with the April death of an Iraqi civilian, a defence official said.

FORMER US Marine Corps officer Bill Hurley regards opponents of torture as ‘America-haters’ (Irish Examiner letters, June 13).