An Afghan warlord believed to have allowed Osama Bin Laden to flee a US attempt to capture him after the September 11 attacks in 2001 has been killed by a suicide bomber... more
Jack Bauer is back and we are plunged straight into “a situation”. The return of 24 coincides with the Government raising the terror threat from “substantial” to “severe”... more
Pakistani forces took back a key town from the Taliban as warplanes launched an assault on militants in a bid to halt their advance toward the Pakistani capital... more
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith attacked immigration judges after they ordered the release of four foreign terror suspects despite fears that they will go on the run... more
It's the new parlour game: trying to find upsides to the recession. There must be some. An end to boasting about property price rises, obviously; a growing sense of disgust with the gross luxuries we so coveted in the boom years - the competitive holidaying, the property makeovers. Perhaps out of hardship there will grow a new sense of values? ... more
Osama bin Laden's former driver is being transferred from detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to his home country of Yemen, US defence officials said... more
I was in Sicily over the weekend and visited the celebrated Capuchin catacombs, where the imperfectly preserved corpses of the 19th-century middle class of Palermo are strung up along the walls... more
An Asian IT manager is seeking £50,000 compensation after a former colleague faked photos of him sitting in a cave with Osama bin Laden and displayed them in the office... more
Members of a banned Muslim extremist group used the anniversary of the September 11 attacks to warn of more terrorist atrocities against the West... more
A senior police officer has been branded "totally insensitive" after he took part in a village carnival's fancy dress parade wearing an Osama bin Laden costume... more
The Dubai company controlled by a half-brother of Osama bin Laden, is looking to raise £96 billion to build two new cities in Djibouti and Yemen and a bridge linking them.... more
A London school attended by the children of notorious hate preachers was forced to shred 2,000 textbooks used to poison pupils' minds after a public outcry... more
Sofia Coppola's boyfriend is lead singer and they won the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album this year. Now, Phoenix tell Nosheen Iqbal, they are set to conquer London
Move over, Mahiki. Nightclub entrepreneurs Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling are soon to launch a new Eighties-inspired club in Chelsea, in honour of Lady Thatcher
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