
A man has been charged with the murder of two brothers who were stabbed in Tooting, south London, four years ago.
Mohammad Ali, 24, an IT sales manager from Battersea, and Hayder Ali, 23, a recruitment consultant of Southfields, were attacked by a group of men.
The brothers were killed after a confrontation on Upper Tooting Road [...]
President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia today, killing 96, officials said.
There were no survivors on the Soviet-era Tupolev, which was taking the president, his wife and staff to events [...]
British trabnsport police confirm, a male youth who was stabbed in London’s Victoria Tube station during tonight’s rush hour has died!
The victim suffered serious stab wounds to his upper body and died in hospital, a police spokesman said.
The victim suffered serious stab wounds to his upper body and died in hospital, a police spokesman said.
A [...]
3 Pakistani and 1 Romanian man arrested. Sahil’s family gave £110,000 for his release!
Two people arrested in Spain. The Pakistani and romanian man kept ringing Sahil’s father, who was told to make payment in Manchester.
Sahil was released in Pakistan. Officers made the arrests yesterday!
The senior government lawyer Sir Michael wood has told the Chilcot inquiry that the invasion of Iraq had no “Legal basis in International Law”.
Wood who was the most senior legal advisor at the foreign Office at the time of the invasion told the inquiry he disagreed with the advice of Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney [...]
Haiti’s devastating earthquake has risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister has said.
Many more remain uncounted under rubble in the capital and elsewhere, including the towns of Jacmel and Leogane.
The search for survivors has officially ended and the focus has shifted to aid.
An estimated 1.5 million people have been left homeless.
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Haitian President Rene Preval has said thousands of people are feared dead following a huge quake which has devastated the country’s capital.
The 7.0-magnitude quake, Haiti’s worst in two centuries, struck on Tuesday.
Hedi Annabi, the Tunisian head of the UN stabilisation mission in Haiti (Minustah), had died after the UN HQ building was destroyed.
The UN [...]
Armed police have boarded a plane at Heathrow airport after a verbal threat was made by three men
Armed anti-terror police boarded the 8pm Emirates flight and arrested the passengers, understood to be English, after a verbal threat was made to blow up the aircraft as it taxied along the runway in preparation for take-off.
Cameron McLean, [...]
Gordon Brown, prime minister, has given the go-ahead for A full body scanners to be introduced at Britain’s airports.
BAA, who runs six of the UK’s airports say that they will place the machines in all of their airports “as soon as it’s practical” starting with Heathrow airport.
Experts have questioned the scanners’ effectiveness at detecting the [...]
Heavy snow is forecast across much of the UK during Tuesday, with several severe weather warnings in place.
The Met Office says northern Scotland, north east and central England and east Wales are all at risk, with up to 25cm (10in) possible on high ground.
Widespread icy roads are also likely across much of the northern UK [...]
Akmal Shaikh, of London, was reportedly told by his family that he faced death at 10:30. It is not known if the sentence has been carried out.
The UK government has made a final appeal to China to halt the execution of a 53-year-old British man who is thought to be mentally ill. It has been [...]
The government is to cut university funding by £533m – from £7.81bn this year to £7.29bn for 2010-11 - annual grant letter shows.
An 18-month-old girl taken from a police station.
Audrey Kessie Nyanor’s mother, 36, was arrested on Thursday in Southwark, south-east London over alleged immigration offences.
A woman turned up at Walworth police station saying she was a friend of Audrey’s mother and was there to collect her.
However it later transpired she was not and a search was [...]
It has been forecasted that heavy snowfall is expected in parts of the UK, with south-east England expected to be worst affected.
The Met Office has issued an early warning and said travel networks may be affected by snow on Friday.
Up to 20cm (8in) of snow could fall in some parts of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, London [...]
Harpreet Aulakh, 31, was arrested by officers investigating the killing of mother-of-two Geeta Aulakh, 28.
Mr Aulakh has been charged with her murder. Last month Sher Singh, 18, of Southall, west London, was charged with murdering Mrs Aulakh.
Mrs Aulakh, 28, was found in Braund Avenue at about 1900 GMT on 16 November.
She died a few hours [...]
Tony Blair is facing strong criticism after he said he would have gone to war in Iraq even if he had known there were not any weapons of mass destruction.
The former prime minister said it was the “notion” of Saddam as a threat to the region which tilted him in favour of the invasion of [...]
The Queen has been entertained by a host of stars at the first Royal Variety Performance to be held in Blackpool since 1955.
The town’s illuminations had lit the way as the royal party made its way to the Opera House in the Winter Gardens.
The charity event’s host, comedian Peter Kay, welcomed the Queen to “the [...]
The husband of a newlywed found strangled in the garage of her Cheshire home has been arrested after a nationwide search.
Michael Roberts, 26, was detained after officers found him in Wrexham, north Wales, on Sunday morning.
He will be questioned over the death of 25-year-old Vicky Roberts, whose body was found on Thursday.
Her father had earlier [...]
Amir Khan WINS in the first Minute of the match agains Dmitriy Salita. Khan destroyed Dmitriy.
Applauded by fans and former boxer Naseem Hammed, Amir started wiith powerfull punches which knocked back Salita straight from the Start bells.
Amir Khan the champion and winner has done it again! Not taking no for an answer and has come [...]