Tributes were being paid today to a senior British army officer killed in action in Afghanistan who was the highest-ranked British soldier to die since the Falklands war.

Britain's Prince Harry is to be withdrawn from Afghanistan after his security was compromised by international media, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.

The head of the British army today called for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq “sometime soon”.

The UK authorities promised Norman Kember’s family and his church that they would not attempt a rescue unless they could be reasonably confident that no-one would be killed, it was claimed today.

Peace activist Norman Kember was back on British soil today after a 119-day hostage ordeal in Iraq.

The UK's most senior soldier may be recalled to give further evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, it emerged today.

General Mike Jackson, the British army's Chief of the General Staff, interrupted his duties in the Iraq war today to give evidence at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.

A senior British Army officer was “very, very annoyed” when he learned that paratroopers were being sent into the Bogside on Bloody Sunday and urged his superiors to think again, he told the Saville Inquiry today.