An unassuming Irish librarian has been credited as a Nazi codebreaker who helped to alter the course of the Second World War.

US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's guilty plea to charges of endangering comrades in Afghanistan has set up a sentencing hearing that could land him in prison for life.

An air strike in the Yemeni capital that killed at least 14 civilians, including eight members of one family, was due to a technical mistake, according to the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels.

Reigning champions St Brendan’s, Killarney and Coláíste Chríost Rí both recorded their third victories of the campaign to finish at the head of their respective groups.

ASK any soldier, sailor or airman who has fought — actually fought — in a conflict, they will most likely agree with that maxim about how wars are 99% boredom relieved by 1% terror. 

Turkey has taken delivery of the body of a Russian pilot who was killed after Turkish F-16s shot down a Russian war plane, the country’s prime minister says.

After carrying out a mass rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from the forest stronghold of an Islamic insurgent group, Nigeria’s military is evacuating the females and plans to check their physical and mental health, an army spokesman has said.

The FBI is investigating after hackers claiming to work on behalf of Islamic State militants seized control of the Twitter and YouTube sites of the US military.

Joe Walsh, the former agriculture minister who was acclaimed as being equally at home in the parish hall or in the gilded buildings of Brussels, was laid to rest yesterday.

Joe Walsh, the former Agriculture Minister who was acclaimed as being equally at home in the parish hall or in the gilded buildings of Brussells, was laid to rest today.

One of the largest military convoys ever seen in this country travelled along Cork roads yesterday as part of an exercise which will shortly see Irish troops become part of an elite EU rapid reaction force.

A ceasefire between pro-Russian separatists and government forces in eastern Ukraine has been breached as mortar fire struck an apartment block in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.

Two Palestinians suspected over the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers which sparked this summer’s Gaza bloodshed have been killed in a shoot-out with Israeli forces, the army said today.

Eleven people have been arrested in Iran after allegedly sending text messages deemed insulting to the founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an Iranian newspaper said.

Four couples from the United States and Australia have been prevented from leaving Thailand with surrogate babies, it is reported.

Israel withdrew most of its ground troops from the Gaza Strip yesterday in an apparent winding-down of the nearly month-long operation against Hamas that has left more than 1,800 Palestinians and 60 Israelis dead.

At least 100 Palestinians have been killed in fighting in Gaza today, according to a health official, as Israel escalated its military offensive in the coastal strip.

Rockets fired from Lebanon have struck Israel as long-range missile fire from Gaza continued against the country for a fourth day.

The Israeli military has launched what could be a long-term offensive against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, striking at least 50 sites in Gaza by air and sea.

Police in Iran have arrested two people who appeared in an online video of young people singing and dancing in support of the country’s World Cup football team, the official IRNA news agency said.

Thailand’s army is detaining former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, cabinet members and anti-government protest leaders for up to a week to give them “time to think”.

Malaysian authorities have defended their handling of the hunt for the missing Boeing 777 – even as they acknowledged they are unsure which direction the plane was travelling in when it disappeared.

Egypt’s military leaders have been ridiculed after the chief army engineer unveiled what he described as a “miraculous” set of devices that detect and cure Aids, hepatitis and other viruses.

Two minutes of footage from a camera on Michael Schumacher’s ski helmet showed the Formula One great was clearly skiing off a groomed trail when he lost his balance and crashed, leaving him with critical head injuries.

Thousands of Christians have fled to a Central African Republic airport guarded by French soldiers, seeking refuge from mostly Muslim ex-rebels who rule the country.

Senior military officers have warned that cuts in personnel which have allowed the purchase of new equipment for the Defence Forces cannot be allowed to continue.

Seven people, including five Chinese tourists, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine on the island of Bali, Indonesian police said today.

Gunmen have shot dead an air force colonel as he left his home in the eastern city of Benghazi, Libyan security officials say.

Almost 100 years after they were lost to their families and their country, half of them never accorded the dignity of a funeral, 1,100 Irish men and women who lost their lives in the first world war were remembered in a ceremony which will ensure their names will never be lost.

Lest Mr Mulvany (Letters, Aug 27) is confusing me with another — I would like to clarify, while there is a Col (retired) Michael (Mick) Moriarty, who has indeed given many years of exemplary service both to Irish Defence Forces and United Nations Military Operations (we served together in Jerusalem 1974), I on the other hand served as a civilian staff member employed directly by United Nations.

Bodies of insurgents killed in a battle in Iraq were not mutilated by British troops, nor were detainees mistreated, a public inquiry has heard.

The US Army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting at a Texas base could become the first American soldier executed in more than half a century after a military jury sentenced him to death.

The soldier on trial for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood was allowed to continue representing himself after the judge barred his standby attorneys from taking over, despite their claims the Army psychiatrist was trying to secure his own death sentence.

A military judge has refused to dismiss a charge that a US army private aided the enemy by giving reams of classified information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.

Islamic supporters vowed to protest today after Egypt’s military moved swiftly against top Muslim Brotherhood figures, targeting the backbone of support for ousted President Mohammed Morsi.

The suspect being hunted in the Boston Marathon bombing is in a boat stored in a Watertown neighbourhood, a law enforcement official says.

People clinging to Catholic beliefs by their fingernails have been told to look to Bono for hope.