Politicians are failing miserably on social media, despite almost all Oireachtas members having Twitter accounts.

Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the United States military base in Guantanamo Bay on Cuba during a mass protest in 2003, the United States military confirmed.

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

Three months after a get-tough US general took command of the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects, prisoners began a flurry of suicide attempts, according to military records.

Nearly 90 al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners at Camp X-Ray were still believed to be on hunger strike today, despite a concession by their American guards over the wearing of turbans.