French police foiled major terrorism plot, says official
Seven suspects held as prosecutor says bomb-making material was the same as that used in fatal Paris Metro blast in 1995French police have foiled a plot that could have set in motion the biggest bomb...
View ArticleBali bombing: 10 years on – interactive
More than 200 people died on 12 October 2002 when two suicide bombers attacked a beach resort on the Indonesian island of BaliPaddy Allen
View ArticleBali bombings: 10 years on, families remember their loved ones
Ceremonies to mark anniversary of terrorist attacks in which 202 people died on island's tourist districtIt was supposed to be a relaxing holiday far away from the stresses of London life. Danielle...
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai - a product of education
"If you educate a man, you educate one person. If you educate a woman, you educate and liberate a whole nation." Malcolm X. Sabbiyah Pervez is a voice from Bradford on the shooting of a brave young...
View ArticleBali bomb: interactive guide to the bombers and how they knew each other
Ten years after the Bali bombings, what do we know about the men who planned and carried out the atrocity?Simon Rogers
View ArticleIslam's sectarian divide has turned from mistrust to bitter violence | Nushin...
My childhood ignorance of differing Shia and Sunni prayer customs once caused humiliation where today it might risk deathIn the Kabul of the 1980s, my teacher asked an apparently harmless question:...
View ArticleBali bombing memorial services around the world - in pictures
Ceremonies take place to mark 10th anniversary of terrorist attacks on beach resort in Bali in which 202 people died
View ArticleThe death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man
The trail began with a single, false name and ended, years later, with Osama bin Laden's body sinking into the seaViewed backwards, from Osama bin Laden's hideout to the scraps of intelligence that led...
View ArticleAl-Qaida leader calls for holy war on US and Israel over anti-Islamic film
Ayman al-Zawahiri praises those who took part in deadly violence triggered by the film The Innocence of MuslimsThe leader of al-Qaida has called for holy war against the United States and Israel over...
View ArticleAl-Qaida-linked Islamists in Mali threaten French citizens after UN move
Spokesman says 'we will send pictures of dead French hostages' after UN backs African-led force in north of countryIslamists in Mali threatened Saturday to "open the doors of hell" for French citizens,...
View Article9/11 pre-trial hearings begin for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others
Five defendants calm at legal proceedings plagued by months of delay as trial still estimated to be at least a year awayFive Guantánamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks were back...
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai arrives at special gunshot unit in British hospital
Schoolgirl shot by Taliban received at Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham, the primary centre for UK military casualtiesMalala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban...
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai: Birmingham surgeons optimistic about recovery – video
The Pakistani schoolgirl activist shot by the Taliban has every chance of making a good recovery, says official at Queen Elizabeth hospital
View ArticleDoes Homeland just wave the American flag? | Rachel Shabi and Alex Andreou
Take two: Homeland viewers Rachel Shabi and Alex Andreou debate the politics of the hit TV drama seriesThe debate rages on among Homeland fans. Some find the Emmy-winning TV show to be a tool for US...
View ArticleCuban missile crisis: are we safer now than we were 50 years ago? | Heather...
Classic deterrence theory depended on a relatively controllable nuclear interdependence. Our post cold war world is less stableFifty years after the Cuban missile crisis, three generations of American...
View ArticleMali prepares for attack on northern insurgents
Plan for west African troops to recapture region from al-Qaida-linked insurgents is set to meet UN deadline, Mali saysWest African troops are gearing up for a military intervention in Mali after the...
View ArticleOsama bin Laden driver's conviction quashed by US appeals court
Judges' ruling in Salim Hamdan case may have repercussions for others convicted under Military Commissions ActA US appeals court has thrown out the conviction of Osama bin Laden's former driver who...
View ArticleGovernment's data powers ineffective against terror, says watchdog
Information commissioner says drat data communications bill will only catch 'the incompetent criminal and the accidental anarchist'Controversial new powers for the police and security services to...
View ArticleObama deflects Romney's challenge on Benghazi attack during Hofstra debate
Moderator Candy Crowley jumps in to tell GOP candidate he has his facts wrong during feisty exchange in second debateBarack Obama wrong footed Mitt Romney in a dramatic clash over the Benghazi attack...
View ArticleMali: military intervention is both essential and inevitable
Calling for the establishment of a government in the south before action in the north is either dangerously naive or ill-informedThe argument against: A dangerous idea with too much supportNobody seems...
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