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18 dead as Taliban bombs bus in new Helmand offensive

29.07.11
Taliban intensifies its new offensive in southern Helmand in Afghanistan - killing 18 people by blowing up a minibus ... more

Taliban attack kills 19

28.07.11
At least 19 people, including a BBC reporter, have died in a Taliban bomb and gun attack in southern Afghanistan ... more

Man held over shootings at Suffolk traveller site

17.03.11
Man being questioned in connection with the murder of two men shot dead at a traveller site ... more

David Kelly friend pleads for review into his death

01.07.10
A friend of Iraq weapons inspector David Kelly has reportedly written to Attorney General Dominic Grieve calling for an independent review into his death... more

Banks still on the slide despite Vince Cable’s plans stalling

13.05.10
Market Round-up: The City may be celebrating news that Vince Cable will not be put in charge of reforming the nation’s banks but the sector’s shares are still sold off... more

Delays leave defence giant EADS nursing £689 loss

09.03.10
Airbus’s parent company, EADS, dives to a heavy loss and scraps its dividend after the expense of A380 super jumbo worsened the effect of charges on the delayed A400M military aircraft... more

Muslim terror gang jailed for planning 'bloodbath' of US soldiers

04.03.10
Four Muslim fanatics planning “bloodbaths” for US soldiers that would have dwarfed London’s Tube attacks are jailed... more

Planes loaded with emergency relief for Haiti struggle to land

15.01.10
Relief workers face a desperate battle to distribute aid as planes struggle to land at the airport in Port-au-Prince... more

Real drama or hoax? Balloon goes up on boy in the attic who sparked alert

16.10.09
Dramatic story of the six-year-old American boy who was feared trapped in a runaway homemade helium balloon may all have been a hoax... more

British arms company struggles in US market

18.09.09
Chemring became the latest British arms company to report that a major US military contract has gone with a whimper rather than a bang.... more

US targets Cobham in survival-gear probe

16.07.09
British defence group Cobham has been raided by Pentagon and NASA investigators... more

F22 fighter withdrawn from Paris in spy row

15.06.09
Depressed it may be in the teeth of the worst slump in history but the much-awaited fixture of the aviation industry, the Paris Air Show, took off amid a Franco-American spying row... more

WORLD: Plot to blow up American jets and Jews

21.05.09
Four Muslims have been arrested over a plot to shoot down US military aircraft and simultaneously blow up two synagogues in New York... more

Here comes top-security travelling White House

30.03.09
White House aides are putting the finishing touches to President Barack Obama's eagerly anticipated first major foreign trip ... more

Captain Cool: Darling, I've had an accident

16.01.09
The pilot who crash-landed his plane into the Hudson river called his wife and said: "There's been an accident."... more

Obama 'might favour' Boeing over Airbus

11.09.08
Engineering: Analysts are trying to second-guess US presidential candidates' positions on the disputed US Air Force tanker deal... more

One small step for Southfork: Pam in talks to pilot Branson's virgin flight to space

02.08.08
Former Dallas star Victoria Principal is aiming to be the first woman commercial pilot in space. She has revealed she wants to pilot the company’s SpaceShipTwo.... more

Kristofferson joins Obama’s backing band

28.03.08
Not afraid to speak his mind as far as politics is concerned, Kris Kristofferson shows support for Barack Obama.... more

US tanker deal row escalates

20.03.08
Defence giant Northrop Grumman has heightened the war of words with Boeing over a controversial air-tanker contract from the US Air Force... more

Right show, wrong critic

05.10.07
Basic training has plenty of laughs, but is essentially a rollercoaster monologue about racism, relationships and reconciliation.... more

It's just a boy thing, dude

26.07.07
Transformers have always been boy-toys and this may explain why, of all the summer blockbusters, this one feels the most macho. ... more

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