U2 album leaked online

U2's eagerly-awaited new album has leaked online two weeks before its official release.

No Line On The Horizon, the Irish rockers 12th studio album is due to be released on March 2.

But excited fans were able to download all 11 tracks last night after it was leaked onto file sharing website The Pirate Bay, before they were removed two hours later.

One fan, calling themselves 'freeloader105', wrote: "Hahaha. I bet Bono is gonna have a stroke out of anger."

This is the second consecutive time a U2 album has leaked before its official on-sale date.

No Line on the Horizon is U2's first album since 2004's massively successful How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.