A five-part series on how social networking led to the capture the Iraqi dictator.

When asked in 1998 how he had become such a good shot, he answered, "Practice."

On the USS Seadragon 120 feet beneath the South China Sea, with Japanese ships patrolling above, submariner Dean Rector was stricken by acute appendicitis...

Why is the AK-47 the world's most popular weapon?

Rob Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage. Also discusses gaylord tennis.

'In 1940, some of the German commanders who were overseeing the push into France began to receive seemingly random reports of soldiers having been killed with broad-head arrows or hacked with a English Claymore.'

'Where is the Iraq war headed next?' from seymour hersh