The RAF will be hard pressed to respond to future emergencies if the mission in Libya continues beyond the summer, its second in command has warned... more
Defence chiefs cast doubt over the safety of Chinook helicopters two years before 29 people were killed in the crash off the coast of Scotland, it has emerged
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Future of Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent becomes less certain after a minister hints that a decision will be postponed until after the 2015 election... more
As few as 150 people may have voted in the Afghanistan presidential poll in an area of the country seized from the Taliban by British forces at a heavy loss... more
Honeymooning tourist describes how passengers feared for their lives when their holiday plane crashed while landing at an airport on a Thai island
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MPs are set to cut back severely on the number of bottles of water drunk at Parliament in response to the Evening Standard's Water on Tap campaign... more
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