Six Danish F-16 fighter jets have landed at the US naval air station in Sigonella, Sicily as the international military build-up mounts for possible action against Libya.

Four Irish people were rescued from their stricken Antarctic Ocean cruise ship today after the vessel struck an iceberg.

There are reports that four Irish people are among the 100 passengers that had to be rescued from a stricken cruise liner in the Antarctic Ocean today.

THE Republican-controlled Senate easily defeated a Democratic effort yesterday to pressure President George Bush to outline a timetable for a phased withdrawal from Iraq.

US FEDERAL courts dealt a double blow to the Bush administration’s strategy in the war on terror yesterday, ruling that the US military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers or the American courts by detaining them indefinitely.