An Israeli soldier feared by the the military to have been abducted by Palestinian gunmen in a firefight that shattered Gaza’s temporary ceasefire has been declared dead.

Marioara Rostas’s death symbolises a society ravaged by drug-fuelled violence.

Britain's Prince Harry is to be withdrawn from Afghanistan after his security was compromised by international media, the Ministry of Defence confirmed today.

A US army sergeant was jailed for a year today for the murder of a severely wounded Iraqi teenager in a Baghdad slum that a co-defendant had described as a mercy killing.

Two car bombs have exploded in Iraq today, with at least five people killed, including a US soldier.