China has said military officials are in contact with their American counterparts on "appropriately handling" the Chinese navy's seizure of a US Navy unmanned underwater glider, one of the most serious incidents between the forces in years.

A US drone strike killed more than 150 fighters when it struck a training camp for al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia who were preparing to launch a large-scale attack, according to the Pentagon.

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.

Osama bin Laden’s driver is to become the first terrorism suspect to face trial at Guantanamo Bay.

United States ground forces made a bold daytime raid into the Iraqi capital today as other coalition troops moved in from the south to test the strength of President Saddam Hussein’s defenders, who are believed to have fallen back for an urban battle, officials said.