Woolwich murder suspect Michael Adebolajo has been assaulted in prison, according to Sky sources. It was gathered that Adebolajo lost two of his teeth during a violent confrontation. Adebolajo, 28, of Romford, Essex, and Michael Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, London, are both charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in May. A statement from […]

A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew was presumed to have crashed off the Vietnamese coast on Saturday, and European officials said two people on board were using false identities. There were no reports of bad weather and no sign of why the Boeing 777-200ER would have vanished from radar screens about […]

A suicide attack on a train station in Russia’s southern city of Volgograd has killed 16 people, officials say. Initial official claims that the bomber was a lone woman has been replaced by uncertainty about who carried it out. President Vladimir Putin has ordered security to be tightened at railway stations and airports across Russia. […]

AFP – Over ten people were killed on Sunday when a suicide attacker rammed a car laden with explosives into a government convoy at a busy junction in Mogadishu the Somali capital. Police official Mohamed Adan said “Several people have been killed, the blast was big, we are gathering details but the number of those […]

South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa’s president says. Mr Mandela, 95, led South Africa’s transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s, after 27 years in prison. He had been receiving intense home-based medical care for a lung infection after three months in hospital. In a statement on […]

Former President Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital in South Africa with a lung infection. A presidential spokesman said he is in a “serious but stable condition”, although he was able to breathe on his own – a “positive sign”. Mr Mandela, 94, has been ill for some days but deteriorated overnight and was […]

World leaders have been called to pay more attention to the sub-Saharan threat from al-Qaeda, a former head of the British armed forces has warned. General Sir David Richards who was the chief of defence staff from 2010 to July 2013 said Britain needed to learn from what it had done “and failed to do”. […]

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died aged 85 after spending eight years in a coma following a stroke. He was a giant of Israel’s military and political scene, but courted controversy throughout his long career. The head of the Sheba Medical Centre near Tel Aviv said Mr Sharon had died on Saturday afternoon […]