VETERANS honouring the return of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan during the rescue of a kidnapped Irish journalist questioned the mission yesterday, as crowds lined the streets in tribute.

A 67-YEAR-OLD British inventor is being paid $30 million by domestic appliance giant Electrolux after claiming it stole his design for an upright, bagless vacuum cleaner.

A 55-YEAR prison sentence handed down to the ringleader of a gang of young Lebanese men who raped four women in western Sydney has shocked lawyers.