UK defeated over 'torture documents'

The High Court today ruled that US intelligence material on former Guantanamo Bay inmate Binyam Mohamed should be made public. Foreign Secretary David Miliband immediately said he would appeal.

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Defiant UN backs Israel war crimes report

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A photograph issued by the MoD of Major Chris Wright inspecting Lance Corporal Iain Maynard, 24, who was shot in the head by the Taliban in Afghanistan, but was saved after the bullet became lodged in his helmet.

Helmet saves soldier shot in the head by Taliban

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