People-smugglers are overloading refugees in inflatable dinghies that are so poorly manufactured they’ve no hope of making their destination.

A survivalist accused of ambushing two state troopers, killing one and seriously wounding the other, was captured by US marshals near an abandoned aeroplane hangar.

"Go home" daubed the vandals in red paint on the walls of Cold Lake mosque. "You are home" wrote the residents who came together to clean it up.

About 100 police, firefighters, and other emergency workers held a disaster-response drill in downtown Toronto’s deserted financial district following a week that saw two soldiers killed on Canadian soil.

The gunman who shot dead a soldier in the Canadian capital was not under surveillance or on a list of around 90 individuals deemed to be a “high risk”, police have admitted.

The mother of the man accused of killing a soldier at Ottawa’s National War Memorial then storming the Canadian parliament before being shot dead says she is crying for the victims of the shooting, not her son.

A masked gunman who killed a soldier at Canada’s war memorial and stormed parliament before being shot dead by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms was an Islamic convert, it has emerged.

A decorated retired Marine whose career as a sniper was derailed by a video which showed him urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has died, his lawyer has said.

One of the rarest and most impressive sights in the natural world has been captured off the coast of Ireland.

One of the rarest and most impressive sights in the natural world has been captured off the coast of Ireland.

The €12,155,282 Lotto jackpot winner has managed to remain invisible in a seaside town where all the locals know each other.

A woman who says she was abducted a decade ago by a man who forced her to marry him and fathered her child has said she is now happy and feels blessed to be back with her family.

Police in Canada have made two arrests in the case of a 17-year-old who died after a photo of her allegedly being sexually assaulted was shared online.

An Irish soldier bound for Lebanon as part of the 108th Infantry Battalion UNIFIL intends to get in plenty of shooting practice while in the Middle East.

A soldier was ordered to keep on his armour at a shooting range safe haven, before Irish ranger Michael ‘Mike’ Maguire was shot and killed, because of the danger of bullet ricochets.

Stuart Lancaster confirmed he has applied for the full-time England coach’s job after joining his players in shedding blood in a physical Calcutta Cup win over Scotland on Saturday.

Two members of the British Army’s Counter-IED Task Force today described the “mentally draining” task of clearing a bomb factory in southern Afghanistan.

Four New York Times journalists, including a Briton, have been reported missing while covering the fighting in Libya.

A FORMER Miss England, dubbed Combat Barbie, faces deployment to Afghanistan after she returned to the army following her stint as a beauty queen.

Justin Bieber has been cleared of assault, almost two months after he was accused of hitting a 12-year-old boy.

Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into Jamaica's most violent slums today, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the US, leaving at least 30 people dead.

The ambulance crew that responded after golfer Tiger Woods crashed his sport utility vehicle would not allow his wife to ride with him to the hospital because they suspected domestic violence, documents released by the Florida Highway Patrol show.

A Hamas leader assassinated during a visit to Dubai last month exposed himself to attack when he breached security protocol by talking about his trip over the phone and making hotel reservations on the internet, the militant Islamic group said today.

A verdict in the trial of a Co Louth construction worker accused of INLA membership is expected at the Special Criminal Court next week.

Iraqi detainee Baha Mousa was subjected to interrogation tactics branded illegal by the Government's chief law adviser more than 30 years before, an inquiry was told today.

British soldiers made Iraqi prisoners scream in an "orchestrated choir" and forced one to dance like Michael Jackson, an inquiry heard today.

A 22-year-old soldier from Dublin has been killed while serving with the British Army in Afghanistan.

AT LEAST six people found dead in a flat in a Vancouver suburb appear to have been targeted in a deliberate attack, police say.

“CRACKED” was how Michael McAleavey described his state of mind when he shot down three of his Army colleagues in a hail of bullets.

British forces were caught up in a ferocious gun battle in southern Afghanistan today after a Taliban ambush in a cornfield.

BRITAIN’S first convicted war criminal was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail for mistreating Iraqi prisoners.

A US military judge today granted a Marine Corporal’s request to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi man.

Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal said today his group was willing to give peace negotiations six months to reach an agreement for a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, but threatened a new uprising if talks fail.

Reports that a triple-killer may be extradited from a Dublin prison to the North is disturbing relatives of his victims, Justice Minister Michael McDowell said tonight.

Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta has dedicated his winning goal against Bolton to a soldier killed in Iraq.

PRISON chiefs have agreed to transfer an Irish soldier who murdered three colleagues back to a jail in the North.

Prison chiefs have agreed to transfer an Irish soldier who murdered three colleagues back to a jail in the North, it emerged today.

FIRE crews yesterday struggled to protect homes from a wind-whipped wildfire that trapped and killed four firefighters in a wall of flames as it raced across almost 38 square miles in southern California.

A MEMORIAL to 131 soldiers from a Cork town, who died in WWI, is to be unveiled on Sunday by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern.

NINE Iraqis allegedly abused by British soldiers were believed to be linked to the massacre of six Royal Military Police three months before their ordeal, a court was told yesterday.

Russia today asked the militant group Hamas to immediately release a captive Israeli soldier, news agencies reported.