A religious and military ceremony is to take place at Dublin Airport today for the Canadian Lieutenant who died following a fire on board a Canadian submarine off the north-west coast last week.

A stricken Canadian sub was today continuing its slow progress towards a naval base on the west coast of Scotland, four days after a fire left it paralysed in the mid-Atlantic.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has revealed he may divert from his first major foreign tour to visit a hospital in Ireland where Canadian sailors were being treated after being rescued from a disabled submarine. But the detour depends on whether the sailors are well enough to see him.

TUGS last night connected towlines to the stricken Canadian submarine drifting for the past three days in waters off the west coast.

A rescue operation to tow a stricken Canadian submarine to safety started tonight, as a second crewman remained in a critical condition.

THE hot Santa Ana wind that has been driving California’s most destructive wildfires in history was giving way to cooler, more humid conditions yesterday, but that did little to tame the blazing tide as crews fought to save more homes.

Powerful winds drove two ferocious firestorms that had already burned more than 200 homes into dozens more houses in California today.