Volunteers behind a new museum say they hope to tell the remarkable stories here of the US military’s bravest Irish heroes.

Authorities in Cuba have said high winds ripped a wing off a small aircraft which crashed on the island, killing four Britons and 12 other people.

Cuban rescue teams were today pulling the bodies of 16 people - including four British tourists - from a dam in central Cuba after a small Soviet-made biplane crashed in a remote region.