Thousands of Bangladeshi workers demanding justice took to the streets today as the full horror of a clothes factory blaze that killed at least 112 people emerged.

There were no emergency exits at a Bangladesh factory hit by a deadly blaze which killed scores of workers, it emerged today.

An Irish-born soldier who survived Afghanistan was accidentally shot dead during training when he was hit by machine gun fire from 1km away, an inquest in Cardiff has heard.

A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near the gate of a US-Afghan combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan this morning, wounding 10 Afghan soldiers, officials said.

Britain's Prince Harry may have been the primary target of an attack on the Camp Bastion military compound in Afghanistan, it was claimed today.

On Raglan Road on an autumn day... the strains of ‘The Mexican Hat Dance’ took on the air of an Irish folk tune.

The US Marine Corps once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the Nazi SS - the special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.

AT 17-years-old, Jared Cano had been expelled from school and had several runs-in with the law, though none of the charges from burglary to drug possession had been pressed.

ANGERED by civilian casualties, Afghan president Hamid Karzai said he will no longer allow NATO air strikes on houses.

Angered by civilian casualties, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has vowed to no longer allow Nato airstrikes on houses, issuing his strongest statement yet against attacks that the military alliance says are vital to its war on Taliban insurgents.

Angered by civilian casualties, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said today that he will no longer allow Nato air strikes on houses.

More than 1,000 protesters poured into a northern Afghan city today and clashed with security forces after an overnight Nato raid they claim killed four civilians.

Two people have been killed after an Afghan driver tried to ram a Nato patrol in southern Afghanistan.

Thousands in the coastal town of Tobruk celebrated their freedom from Muammar Gaddafi by waving flags of the old monarchy, honking horns and firing guns in the air around a city square where he once executed people.

IMAGINE spending €190,000 on flowers. Or €15,000 on a cake. Or how does up to €15,000 for toilets sound?

At least 15 people died when gunmen wearing military uniforms tried to storm Iraq’s central bank in Baghdad.

Insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault today against the giant US-run Bagram Air Field, the second Taliban strike at Nato forces in and around the capital in as many days.

Thousands of grieving, angry mourners flooded the main square in the capital of Kyrgyzstan today to honour victims of the country‘s revolt – with many blaming the absent president for ordering security forces to fire on those protesting against his government.

A Fiji court found eight men guilty of conspiracy to murder today in connection with a plot to assassinate the South Pacific island nation’s prime minister.

A JUNTA that seized power in a coup in the west African nation of Niger named a platoon commander as its leader, hours after soldiers announced on state TV their group was in charge of the uranium-rich country.

Renegade soldiers in armoured vehicles stormed Niger’s presidential palace with a hail of gunfire in broad daylight, kidnapping the country’s strongman president then appearing on state television to declare a successful coup.

THE army psychiatrist accused in the fatal shootings at Fort Hood may be paralysed from the waist down after being shot multiple times during the attack, his attorney said yesterday.

A mass shooting at a military base in Texas has left seven people dead and 12 injured, according to reports.

Rescuers were searching freezing water today for 16 people missing after a helicopter reported mechanical problems and ditched into the Atlantic Ocean.

Israeli ground forces made their deepest foray yet into Gaza’s most populated area, with tanks rolling into residential neighbourhoods and infantry fighting urban warfare in streets and buildings with Hamas militants.

A jury of US military officers at Guantanamo’s second war-crimes trial reached a verdict that could put Osama bin Laden’s alleged “media secretary” and videomaker in prison for life.

MOST of the Portuguese police officers who looked for Madeleine McCann after her disappearance had no formal training in missing people searches, case files revealed yesterday.

A British soldier killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan was named by the Ministry of Defence today as Major Alexis Roberts, serving with 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

A 19-year-old student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology walked into Boston’s Logan International Airport on Friday with a fake bomb strapped to the outside of her sweatshirt and was arrested at gunpoint.

The US-led coalition today accused the Taliban of using children as human shields during a battle in southern Afghanistan, while Nato said it was investigating a shipment of weapons intercepted near the border with Iran.

Nato forces in Afghanistan launched a new military operation today in the most violent southern province, while nearby a suicide bomber on foot blew himself up next to a police vehicle, wounding eight policemen, officials said.

As the search for missing aviator Steve Fossett enters its sixth full day concern is growing as the unprecedented effort drags on with no clue about his possible location.

Iraqi soldiers hoisted the nation’s flag over the Basra palace compound today after British troops withdrew from their last garrison in the city.

Gun battles and a bomb attack across Afghanistan killed seven Afghan security force members and 15 suspected militants, while police recaptured a district that had been taken over by the Taliban in the volatile south, officials said today.

US troops are to serve up to 15 months in Iraq and Afghanistan instead of the usual 12-month tours under new rules.

The Sri Lankan army said today that it killed 10 Tamil Tiger rebels during a battle in the country’s volatile east.

Six more American soldiers have been killed in Iraq, officials said today, pushing the US military death toll to at least 2,978 – five more than the number killed in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

British troops raided a police station in the southern Iraqi city of Basra today after receiving intelligence that a renegade police unit might execute its prisoners.

Nato troops shot and killed a motorcyclist travelling at a high speed as his vehicle approached a security cordon in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said today.

Fiji’s ousted prime minister today said the South Pacific country was sliding toward “the worst kind of dictatorship”, and offered to hold talks with the military regime to find a way to restore democracy as quickly as possible.

The Sri Lankan military, backed by tanks and war planes, battled Tamil Tiger rebels for over three hours today for control of territory in the east, a military spokesman said, a further escalation of violence in the country’s undeclared civil war.

THE Shi’ite militia run by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr seized control of a southern Iraqi city yesterday in one of the boldest acts of defiance yet by the country’s powerful, unofficial armies.

Police killed 11 suspected Taliban in two separate operations in southern Afghanistan overnight as a purported insurgent spokesman claimed today that militants killed a Turkish national kidnapped last month.

A Kurdish security officer testifying in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial in Baghdad, Iraq, today showed the court body burns he allegedly received when armies of the deposed leader attacked his northern Iraqi village in 1988.