A GANG of nearly 30 young people from seaside town Brighton have been unmasked as budding jihadis who were feared to be plotting a terrorist attack. Counter-terrorism officials identified the large group, of which roughly half are teenagers, as highly likely to flee to the Islamic State (ISIS) strongholds of Iraq and Syria. The...
POLICE have issued a serious warning to members of the public not to use Santander cash machines after a number were 'compromised'. Forces in both Lancashire and Cheshire have issued alerts over the use of Santander cashpoints as customers' details may be at risk. The warning follows reports of suspicious devices on...
A train has derailed south of the US city of Philadelphia, leaving two people dead and more than 30 others injured. Amtrak's Train 89 was heading from New York City to Savannah in Georgia when it struck a mechanical digger — known in the US as a backhoe — that was on the track at Chester. Some 341 passengers and...
Azerbaijan has announced a "unilateral ceasefire" in fighting with Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. A defence ministry spokesman said the Azeris were acting in response to international calls to halt violence. But the Armenia-backed Karabakh forces said this was false and Azerbaijan...
FIREFIGHTERS are battling a blaze that has ripped through a north London bakery. A crew of more than 70 firefighters were sent to the single-storey industrial unit in Tottenham which is “100 per cent alight”. The front of the building has partially collapsed, but no-one is believed to be injured, according to a...
BRITAIN was tonight perilously divided as simmering anger about mass migration boiled over into ugly violence on the streets of Dover. This disturbing video shows how far-right protesters and ultra left-wing militia went to war in the historic port town, which has become symbolic of Britain's increasingly fractious and...
It is believed that whaling in the Faroe Islands goes back centuries in the darkness, and the statistics slaughter pilot whales dolphins being here since 1709. Every year in the Faroe Islands are an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Denmark, organized by the local "festival" -Hunting. All adult men are going to...
Greece has demanded an explanation from the IMF over a leaked conversation in which top officials allegedly discuss the Greek bailout. A transcript, published by Wikileaks, shows the officials discussing ways of putting pressure on Greece, Germany and the EU to get them to wrap up talks. One of those quoted suggests a crisis...
Brussels airport plans to partially reopen on Sunday with new security controls, 12 days after it was attacked by suicide bombers. Airport authorities said three Brussels Airlines' flights would depart for European destinations. Zaventem has not handled passenger flights since the attack on its departure hall claimed by the...
Dozens of people have been killed in clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Armenia said 18 ethnic-Armenian troops died in the fighting early on Saturday, among the worst in two decades. Azerbaijan said it had lost 12 troops and there were unconfirmed reports of civilian...
The slain suspect in the fatal shooting of a Virginia State Police officer during a bus station training exercise was an Illinois man with a long criminal record, authorities said on Friday. James Brown III, 34, of Aurora, Illinois, is suspected of shooting Trooper Chad Dermyer on Thursday at Richmond’s Greyhound bus...
Muslim teacher Salah Farah stood in the way as Islamist militants stormed his bus in Kenya in December — refusing their demands to split from Christian passengers and instead taking a bullet that would later kill him. Now, three months after the attack, the father of five will be honored posthumously by Kenya for his act...