The British armed forces in Afghanistan have revealed a new weapon – in the form of Superman’s brother. 

Nick Cavill, Royal Marine is taking on the Taliban as his younger brother Henry, an actor, is getting ready to play Superman in the impending Hollywood movie Man of Steel.

Major Cavill, 36, of 45 Commando Royal Marines, is looming the end of a Gruelling six-month visit in Afghanistan.

In the mean time Henry has been bulking up to facilitate drag on the superhero's unique blue and red outfit.

Members of Major Cavill’s unit said they were pleased when they listen to about the association.

One Royal Marine helping with Major Cavill told The Sun newspaper: “We heard the report before we deployed. Then one young man obtained sent a care package with a mag which had a story on his brother and his role. We couldn't think it – he's the Helmand Superman. It's luminous.”

Another Marine, aged 23, said: “Every time Major Cavill provides us an update we ask him, ‘is it a bird or is it a plane?’

“We ask him if he has Superman on name if things don't go to plan out here.”

Jersey-born Henry is best recognized for his character in historical drama The Tudors.

Man of Steel, which is on air in summer 2013, has a £100 million budget and is directed by Dawn of the Dead's Zack Snyder.

Henry, 28, said: “I'm preparing 2½ hours a day, putting on a lot of muscle, making myself similar to Superman.”

Major Cavill and a MoD spokesman denied to remark.

But a defense source said: “All our servicemen and women out in Afghanistan are superheroes.” 

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Militants initiated a composite attack against the American Embassy and a close to NATO base on Tuesday, hiding the greatly secured compound with rockets in an attack that move up new queries about the protection of Afghanistan’s capital and the Westerners working there.

As a minimum10 heavy blasts —evidently from rockets launched by insurgents — and waves of automatic weapons fire were reported amongst the drone of bells and English-language warnings conveying Americans inside the embassy to take shelter.

It was not clear whether anybody — Western or Afghan — had been injured or died in the assault, but it showed that one rocket had hit a minibus belonging to the Tak Beer private school, and observers said that children had been carried away bleeding and evidently insensible.

Afghan authorities said many attackers were behind the attack, but it was not clear exactly how many attackers there were or whether they were assaulting from a single or numerous places. As of 2:30 p.m., security forces were on going to fight the assaulters, some of whom showed to be holed up in an incomplete building neglecting the embassy.

“We don’t recognize how many suicide attackers are in the building,” said Col. Abdul Zahir, of the criminal investigative section of the Kabul police. “They’re shelling at the embassy. We’re still in battling position. We can’t say something.”

The attack, which started around 1:15 p.m., was the newly in a string of assaults that have broken off at a shaky sense of security in the capital. In August, insurgent murdered eight people in an assault on a British cultural center, and in June, nine suicide attackers broken layers of security to assault the hillside Intercontinental Hotel.

On Monday afternoon, the streets nearby the location of the attack, usually choked with the traffic of minibuses, bicycles and Toyotas, were deserted of all but security forces and people competing for cover.

“We don’t aware what’s occurring,” one Afghan soldier said. “All over the place you can hear gun firing.”

Taliban’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid professed responsibility for the assault in a text message, stating the Taliban had embarked to assault the embassy, a NATO base and Afghan government building. His statement could not be instantly verified.

A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said there was a continuing assault in the center of Kabul, but could not give any other information or say whether NATO forces were engaged in fighting the attackers.

The attack came under two months after Afghan forces believed official responsibility for security in the capital, one of several corners of the country where security was formally handed over in July. 

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British troops have been moving up their strengths in Afghanistan by creating their own pop video using music from hit show Glee.

A huge number of the people on YouTube have watched d video recording of the soldiers singing one of the program’s most famous songs.

Their version of Don't Stop Believin' starts with a several of the servicemen jogging up and down in the shower.

Then the video cuts to the leading edge, where soldiers Gaz and Ab sing the tune down the telephone.

After that, a soldier named Taylor comes into the view in shot playing with a rake in an air guitar moment.
A number of the other troops then carry on singing lines from the song - and one is yet pictured on the toilet with a magazine wrapping his privates.

The internet hit, which has had at least 55,000 viewers, was pictured by members of 7 Commando battery, 29 Commando.

One web user said: "Love this. Nice to see that you guys can still have fun. Keep safe. You are all doing a dazzling job keeping us all secure."