Friday 24 May 2013
BRITAIN launched fighter jets this afternoon to escort a Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying 297 passengers from Lahore after it was diverted from Manchester, a spokesman for the Defence Ministry said.
A Syrian-born Islamist cleric who taught one of the attackers accused of hacking to death an off-duty British soldier on a London street praised the attack for its "courage" and said Muslims would see it as a strike on a military target.
Police in Stockholm called in reinforcements on Friday after youths set cars and a school ablaze in a fifth night of rioting, the worst to hit Sweden for years.
One of the two suspected Islamist terrorists who allegedly butchered a British soldier on a London street had been known to the security services and police for a decade.
BRITISH Commons speaker Sally Bercow says she is "surprised and disappointed" by the London High Court ruling that her tweet about Tory peer Lord McAlpine was libellous.
TWO men have been arrested for making alleged offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British soldier.
BOTH runways at Heathrow airport were shut down this morning after a British Airways plane had to make an emergency landing.
Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir Putin consolidates his power.
STOCKHOLM was braced for a fifth night of riots yesterday, as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital, continued to spread to other corners of the city.
PRINCE Charles and his wife Camilla sat through a "hairy" mid-air drama when an in-flight emergency forced them to land minutes after take-off.
A Russian court has denied parole to a member of the Pussy Riot punk group.
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett has described how she confronted two terrorists who, just minutes previously, had brutally murdered a British soldier outside Woolwich Barracks in south-east London.
THE prosecutor in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial has received a series of anonymous letters of threats, including one with two bullets, Milan's chief prosecutor said today.
A cub scout leader confronted terrorists just seconds after they had beheaded a soldier asking them to hand over their weapons and warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose."
The man accused of abducting and murdering schoolgirl April Jones in a sexually motivated attack today told a jury he put her body "somewhere where it has not been found".
FRENCH singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki, beloved in France for his songs celebrating liberty and collaborations with Edith Piaf, died on Thursday after a long illness.
Dutch authorities have arrested the head of a meat trading company at the centre of a horsemeat scandal that prompted a massive recall of tainted beef products, the public prosecutor's office said today
IMF chief Christine Lagarde was questioned in court by a French magistrate today over her role in a €285m arbitration payment made to a supporter of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
A jury has retired for a second day to consider verdicts in the retrial of four footballers accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
An air stewardess has been charged following the seizure of around six kilos of cocaine at Heathrow Airport.
Britain will "never buckle" in the face of terrorist incidents, David Cameron vowed, as he condemned the "absolutely sickening" killing in London.
The residents who gathered around the scene of the barbaric attack in Woolwich yesterday struggled to articulate their horror.
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The Woolwich killers are of Nigerian background, sources have confirmed.
The brutal terrorist killing of a man on the streets of London sparked calls for the Government to revive plans to extend internet and email monitoring powers to the security services.
Religious groups and charities have come together to condemn the attack in Woolwich.
The Woolwich attack has all the hallmarks of the very nightmare MI5 has feared – low key fanatics arming themselves with basic weapons and targeting a soldier or other victim at random.
Two men have been arrested after separate attacks on mosques following the terrorist incident in Woolwich.
GERMAN women should be encouraged to "stay at home and bring three or four children into the world", rather than relying on immigration to solve the country's demographic crisis, the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne has said.
A mother of two described last night how she put her life on the line by trying to persuade the terrorists to hand over their weapons.
KATE Windsor, the Duchess of Cambridge, was on hand to welcome Olympians, Paralympians and officials from the 2012 London Games to the first Buckingham Palace garden party of the summer.
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