THE engineers of tomorrow have had a chance to see how two of the navy’s eight ships work.

ON April 27, 1916, three days after Patrick Pearse stepped onto the portico of the General Post Office in Dublin to proclaim the new Irish Republic, 2,128 men of the 16th (Irish) Division suffered horrifically from a German gas attack.

The US military has launched a new operation in Afghanistan involving thousands of troops to provide security during presidential elections.

Two soldiers from the USA’s 101st Airborne Division were killed early today and another was injured when their convoy came under rocket propelled grenade and small arms fire in northern Iraq, the US military said.

The British Army's second-in-command in the North replied 'Well done', when told that unarmed bodies had been found on Bloody Sunday, the inquiry into the shootings was told today.