US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military’s ban on women serving in combat, a senior Pentagon official has said.

It has emerged that British cosmetic clinics are using hundreds of foreign surgeons for “fly in, fly out” operations, many of them not insured in Britain.

Few players have waited as long as Jamie Donaldson did for their first European Tour win – and even fewer have achieved it after being told their career could be over. Donaldson’s brilliant four-stroke victory in the Irish Open at Royal Portrush last July came in his 255th Tour event and 12 years after he…

A military training centre in Devon has “lost” more than 8,000 pieces of equipment including 115 bayonets since 2008, the BBC has learned. A list revealed that 8,312 items, including 13 dummy hand grenades and 2,860 pieces of cutlery, had been lost from the Lympstone Commando Centre.

Relatives of soldiers killed while patrolling in Snatch Land Rovers have won the right to sue the Government for compensation. Numerous members of the armed forces were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan while patrolling in the Land Rovers, nicknamed ‘mobile coffins’ by squaddies. Families of several servicemen are now claiming damages over the deaths –…

IEDs, Improvised Explosive Devices, are one of the biggest combat threats to soldiers deploying to Afghanistan. Having spoken to many servicemen injured and family members who have lost someone in this way, I am only too aware of the scale of the threat posed by IEDs.