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iPhone chosen over a Android handset to be turned into "dual-persona" device that can be used to discuss confidential matters. BT chose to Harden the iPhone 7 after rejecting the Samsung Note 4. Image: CNET The iPhone 7 is being turned into a phone capable of safeguarding military-level secrets for the UK armed forces. Telecoms giant BT is hardening the security of the device to allow UK military personnel to use it to discuss state secrets and for storing sensitive data. Describing the iPhone 7 as the "device of choice" for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), Steve Bunn, technical...

A man reported to be a serving soldier is dead and two people have been shot in Woolwich, south east London, after what Sky sources understand is being treated as a terrorist attack. Downing Street has called a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee after the incident in John Wilson Street, which David Cameron described as "truly shocking". Sky sources understand that senior police officers believe the killing was likely to be a politically-motivated Islamist terrorist attack. Dozens of weapons - including a number of knives - and pools of blood could be seen on the ground, where a...

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced this month that the UK government would be investing an extra £150 million (€167.61 million, $240.17 million) in countering the improvised explosive device (IED) threat to military operations in Afghanistan. This will include an additional £10 million being put towards buying 400 hand-held mine detectors on top of the £12 million allocated earlier this year for new explosive disposal robots. There are now 30 of these in operation in Afghanistan. Brown also outlined a package of longer-term investment in counter-IED capability, which will include setting up a new base in the UK for training and...

U.S. soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 70 Armor, stand next to a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein damaged by gunfire, after conducting a search of a military complex in the town of Kerbala southwest of Baghdad, April 5, 2003. The United States said its troops had maneuvered through Baghdad for the first time, taking the 17-day-old war to topple President Saddam Hussein right into his battered capital. (Peter Andrews/Reuters) U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Regiment, take position after they were taking fire from an Iraqi sniper on the main road linking to Baghdad , about a half mile...