Defiant and disgraced media baron Conrad Black will launch an appeal in the US courts in the coming days after he was sentenced to six and a half years in jail.

THE US Air Force has dropped a 21,000-pound MOAB bomb on a range in northwest Florida in a successful first live test of a powerful new weapon nicknamed the “mother of all bombs.”

The US Air Force scheduled a test today of the biggest conventional bomb in the world, a 21,000-pound device that could play a dramatic role in an attack on Iraq.