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Anders Behring Breivik trial interrupted as victim's brother throws shoe - video

The brother of one of the victims at Utøya says he wanted to send a message to Anders Behring Breivik that what he had done was wrong

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Terror victims respond to UN's report on their rights with caution

Victims of terror attacks welcome the UN's call for greater recognition, but remain sceptical over compensation termsIf Will Pike had received his injuries in a road accident, he would have been given...

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UN moves to compensate the victims of terrorism

Report will recommend far-reaching changes to rebalance international law in favour of those who have sufferedPeople seriously injured or maimed by terrorist attacks across the world would be granted...

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Yemen says US drone strikes have killed 11 al-Qaida militants in two days

Increasing pace of US strikes against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula comes as US expert warns of anti-western sentimentSuspected US drones have killed 11 alleged al-Qaida militants in a strike in...

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From the archive, 14 May 1956: Terrorists are disguising themselves as...

Armed forces on high alert after a series of separate violent incidentsSteps are being considered by the security authorities in Cyprus to prevent terrorists from operating in the disguise of priests,...

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Anders Breivik trial: young survivors give evidence

Some of those who escaped gun massacre on island of Utøya, in which 69 died, were initially unaware they had been shotYoung people who survived Anders Behring Breivik's gun massacre on the island of...

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Yemeni troops kill al-Qaida militants

Military officials say 10 killed in air strike on hideout and six killed in missile attack on vehicle in troubled southern regionYemeni troops have killed at least 16 militants in the troubled south...

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London 2012 Olympics: IOC rejects silence for Munich victims

International Olympic Committee turns down Israeli plan to mark 40th anniversary of terrorist attack with a minute's silenceThe International Olympic Committee has rejected an Israeli call for a...

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Bogota hit by fatal bomb attack

Colombian president says former interior minister was target of attack in crowded streetThe Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, says two people have been killed in a bomb attack on a crowded...

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David Davis says case for secret courts based on a 'falsehood'

Former shadow home secretary says government's argument 'blown out of water' following US leak about British double agentThe government's central argument for the creation of new generation of secret...

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Bogota bomb kills two of ex-minister's bodyguards

39 people injured in attempt to kill former interior minister Fernando Londono, a vocal critic of rebel group the FarcA bomb targeting a hardline Colombian former interior minister has killed two of...

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Anders Behring Breivik trial: survivors tell of hiding under bodies

Oslo court hears testimony from three who escaped gunman in Utøya massacre by lying motionless among dead and dyingThree survivors of Anders Behring Breivik's Utøya island massacre have described how...

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Macedonia on trial for human rights abuses in US post-9/11 rendition case

European court of human rights hears case of Khaled el-Masri, detained in Skopje before alleged torture in Afghanistan by CIAEurope's human rights court began hearing the first case arising from the...

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The NDAA's section 1021 coup d'etat foiled | Naomi Wolf

One brave judge is all that lay between us and a law that would have given the president power to detain US citizens indefinitelyOn Wednesday 16 May, at about 4pm, the republic of the United States of...

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This bookseller deserved his incitement to terrorism conviction | Matthew...

I was a witness in Ahmed Faraz's trial – this is the first time anyone involved has spoken about what really happenedThe trial and conviction last December of a Muslim bookseller, Ahmed Faraz, for...

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Syrian security forces set off Damascus bombs blamed on al-Qaida – defectors

Attacks were beyond our abilities, says rebel leader, as officers who fled describe regime plots before blastsMilitary defectors in northern Syria have denounced claims that al-Qaida was behind a...

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Why Bashar al-Assad stresses al-Qaida narrative

Syria has seen influx of foreign fighters, but regime has been spinning terror line since last March to help justify state violenceBashar al-Assad claimed from the start of the Syrian uprising last...

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Mystery of Lockerbie plane bombing may never be solved

• Abdelbaset al-Megrahi had always protested his innocence• Claims of flaws in conviction for Lockerbie plane bombingThe death of the only man to have been convicted of the Lockerbie bombing – when Pan...

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New Lockerbie inquiry rejected by PM as Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies

Cameron says bombing case was properly conducted, but MP says there are 'still so many unanswered questions'David Cameron has dismissed the possibility of a UK inquiry into the conviction of Abdelbaset...

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Lockerbie bombing: secrets not to be taken to the grave | Editorial

One might assume that the truth about the bombing might finally emerge - but that hope could be prematureThe death on Sunday of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person to be convicted of the Lockerbie...

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