Advanced plans for “simultaneous strikes” on London and other European cities have been foiled. Sky News sources reported last night that the threat of a “Mumbai-style” attack by militants based in Pakistan has been averted by Western intelligence sharing. Britain’s national threat level remains at …
Pervez Musharraf, the former Pakistani president, Bush administration pal in The War Against Terror (TWAT for short), and the youngest member of 2004′s Death List, has found himself a new home: he’s taken up residence in a house just off the Edgware Road. With life …
The book grocer returns from August hiatus to find all kinds of lovely literary events with which to fill up our diary for September. And having remembered a lesson or two from primary school (beer before liquor, never sicker? No, not that one), we share …
It is pretty cool and rather rare when an almost A-list celeb truly proves their worth, rolls up their sleeves and gets their hands dirty. Jemimah Khan has in the last day or two shown herself to be a woman of astonishing integrity and courage, …
BBC: Three men have been arrested in connection with the suicide bombings in London on 7 July 2005. Two men, aged 23 and 30, were arrested shortly before 1300 GMT at Manchester Airport when they were due to catch a flight to Pakistan. A third …
When our exclusive email interview with Middlesex and Ireland batsman Eoin Morgan arrived in our inbox late on Friday we were sorely tempted to post it there and then given Ireland’s spectacular tie with Zimbabwe the previous day, but we reluctantly decided to hang on …
The Independent reports that the fashion sense of six men now on trial for conspiracy to commit murder on London transport in July 2005 had been frequently observed by police on several occasions. This week’s court proceedings show that the apparel of the men was …
It was always going to be tricky to pull off a quirky road movie centred upon the Taliban, but Kabir Khan almost pulls it off. And seeing as Kabul Express is produced by Yash Raj Films (the most successful Indian film studio, more used to …
Pakistan’s president has claimed in his memoir that the Al Qaeda ‘mastermind’ behind 9/11 was also connected to the 7 July bombings. A 22-year-old man is being questioned by police over the death of Lucy Brahamm who was found stabbed to death at her parents’ …
Can’t wait ’till next Friday for the real thing to start? Then get yourself along to Regents Park this weekend and watch the countries of the world unite in a festival of UK amateur football modelled on FIFA’s big event which will see last year’s …
A worrying link has been made between the London and Madrid bombings by European security services – namely, that the perpetrators in both cases were not international al-Qaida terrorists, but home-grown radicals, who used the internet to plan their attacks. When both bombings occurred, the …
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