An alleged al Qaeda terrorist planned to fly explosive-packed, remote-controlled model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol building in Washington DC, the FBI claims... more
The command and control of Libyan regime forces are a legitimate target for Nato air strikes, Defence Secretary Liam Fox insisted, amid claims of a bid to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi... more
US sends special radar-equipped warship to the Mediterranean Sea in first step to developing broad anti-ballistic missile system to protect Europe against a potential Iranian nuclear threat... more
The US military is forced to accept openly gay recruits for the first time, even as it tries in the courts to slow the movement to end its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy... more
Federal judge California orders the US military to stop enforcing its ban on openly gay troops, bringing the 17-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy close to being abolished... more
Britain's top military commander has told why he is taking a delegation from the armed forces to the theatre to promote greater understanding of the task in Afghanistan... more
New research shows that divorce is a virus you can catch, and that news of a friend’s divorce increases the likelihood of your own marriage breaking up by 75 per cent... more
An airline pilot wrongly accused of training the September 11 hijackers has demanded a face-to-face apology from Jack Straw after claiming his life has been 'destroyed' by the ordeal... more
It is much to Sir John Chilcot's credit that the hearings of his Iraq inquiry will largely be held in public - starting tomorrow in Westminster... more
The planned 2004 coup to oust Teodoro Obiang, president of Equatorial Guinea, came straight
out of the plot of a thriller novel or action film, involving mercenaries, shadowy millionaires, the Pentagon and the son of a former British prime minister... more
The Bay Area’s Maker culture, which I wrote about a few months back, had its fourth big annual outing last weekend when some 80,000 people attended the two-day Maker Faire in San Mateo, at the Valley’s northern edge ... more
A major diplomatic incident was averted today after claims that a US warplane had been ordered to land for unintentionally violating iran's airspace proved to be false... more
As the Law Lords accept US demands to have London hacker Gary McKinnon extradited we reveal how proof of America's desire to brand him a terrorist has mysteriously vanished
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