A friend of former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos today admitted supplying cocaine to an undercover reporter.

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos is due to go on trial today accused of being concerned in brokering a drug deal.

Former X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has appeared in court accused of being concerned in brokering a drug deal.

Three battles Ireland must shade to beat Wales

There wasn’t a hint of panic when Devin Toner was suddenly called upon to organise Ireland’s line-out strategy in Sunday’s RBS Six Nations clash with Scotland.

Singer Tulisa Contostavlos has denied being concerned with the supply of Class A drugs.

Singer Tulisa Contostavlos will appear in court today charged in connection with the supply of Class A drugs.

Convicted US secrets leaker Chelsea Manning is seeking a presidential pardon.

Whistleblower soldier Bradley Manning decided to announce that she wanted to live as a woman the day after she was sentenced because a military prison said it would not provide hormone treatment, her lawyer said.

Bradley Manning says he plans to live as a woman and begin hormone therapy, a day after the soldier was sentenced to 35 years in prison for sending classified information to WikiLeaks.

Bradley Manning, who was yesterday sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents to Wikileaks, said she plans to live out her life as a woman.

US soldier Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.

Whistleblower soldier Bradley Manning is facing a substantial prison term today, despite being acquitted by a US military court of the most serious charge against him – aiding the enemy.

A military judge yesterday acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges for giving thousands of classified secrets to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.

A military judge has acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges for giving thousands of classified secrets to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.

A one-time computer hacker who told authorities private first class Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified yesterday that the soldier never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats.

A one-time computer hacker who told authorities that a US soldier was giving information to WikiLeaks has testified that the Army private never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats.

Bradley Manning put military secrets into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself, US prosecutors said, as the army intelligence analyst went on trial for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

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Italy 9 Wales 26

South Africa-born forward Andries Pretorius has been named in the Wales squad for this season’s RBS 6 Nations Championship.

The defence says US military prosecutors are drawing comparisons between an Army private's alleged leak of classified documents to US Civil War-era cases involving coded messages in newspapers

An Army private accused of sending reams of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website was kept in tight pre-trial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, told a court today.

The US Army private charged with sending government secrets to WikiLeaks is offering to plead guilty to some offences.

Lawyers for a young soldier accused of leaking a trove of secret information to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said US military prosecutors had withheld hundreds of emails related to his pre-trial detention at a Marine Corps brig.

NEW South African signing Tonderai Chavhanga gave the Newport Gwent Dragons plenty to cheer about in their RaboDirect Pro 12 clash with Ulster at Rodney Parade.

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The US Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being flown to a state-of-the-art prison where Pentagon officials said more extensive mental, emotional and physical health care will be available.

NEWPORT GWENT DRAGONS secured revenge over Connacht for an opening day Magners League thrashing in Galway this season by clinching a one-point victory at Rodney Parade.

A light aircraft spluttered and stalled seconds before it nosedived to the ground, killing three people in the North, an inquest heard today.

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A volcano on an uninhabited island off Alaska erupted again this morning, sending an ash plume 8 1/2miles into the air, officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.

A military jury in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sentenced a soldier to death on Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

Comedy actress Pat Coombs has died at the age of 75.