A man escaped with barely a scratch after a 3in nail hurtled into his eye when he accidentally hit it with a strimmer.

A man escaped with barely a scratch after a 3-inch nail hurtled into his eye when he accidentally hit it with a strimmer.

US President Barack Obama says the US will take miliary action against Syria.

The head of Saddam Hussein’s tribe was killed when gunmen attacked a meeting in the office of a prominent sheikh in Tikrit, police said today.