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Pirates and Islamists struggle for control of kidnapped yacht pair

03.11.09

Latest: British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates have been at the centre of violent clashes after one faction of the gang wanted to hand them over to Islamic extremists... more

Yacht couple: Pirates stormed boat as we slept

29.10.09

NEW: British hostage tells how he and his wife were captured by pirates as they slept on their boat in the Indian Ocean... more

Pirates' threat to kill Britons and 'burn their bones'

28.10.09

Pirates holding Paul and Rachel Chandler to ransom threaten to kill them and 'burn their bones' if any rescue attempt was made... more

Labour let 40,000 migrants stay ‘to clear backlog target’

09.10.09

Home Office accused of 'bending the rules' on asylum so it can meet a promise to clear a backlog of 450,000 cases by 2011... more

Leading al Qaeda fighter killed in US helicopter attack

15.09.09

American forces are believed to have killed a top al Qaeda suspect in a helicopter raid on a Somalian village... more

WORLD: Australian police foil terrorist plot

04.08.09

Plot to massacre soldiers at bases in Australia in suicide terror attacks has been foiled by security services... more

'Ruthless' Beshenivsky killer jailed for life

22.07.09

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Piracy puts shipping cover costs on the rise

25.06.09

The cost of insuring shipping against piracy has increased 100% because of attacks on shipping off Somalia and Nigeria.... more

Troops seize nine pirates

27.04.09

Yemeni special forces stormed an oil tanker captured by Somali pirates and seized at least nine bandits... more

Talent show star Susan Boyle gets a Ł100 look to dye for at her local salon

24.04.09

Singing sensation Susan Boyle revealed the radical new look that cost her just Ł100... more

‘Our project helped hundreds find jobs but now we face axe’

21.04.09

A charity that helps hundreds of people a year find work is facing closure after a funding crisis... more

US sends warship to save captain

09.04.09

A US Navy warship arrived off the coast of Somalia as negotiations began to rescue the captain of an American cargo ship who was seized by Somali pirates... more

Pirates hijack British ship

06.04.09

A British-owned cargo ship has been hijacked by Somali pirates... more

Lloyd Webber: Internet is Somalia of lawless piracy

03.04.09

Andrew Lloyd Webber has launched a scathing attack on the internet, calling it a "Somalia of unregulated theft and piracy"... more

Suicide bomber from Ealing is first in a new wave of Islamic terror

16.02.09

A British university student who became a suicide bomber in Somalia is believed to be the first in an outbreak of Islamic terrorism... more

Economic crisis increases our terror risk, warns MI5 head

07.01.09

The world economic crisis could heighten the terrorism threat facing Britain, the head of MI5 has cautioned... more

Follow my leaders' tips to survive the big day

23.12.08

For a working mother, organising Christmas can be a challenge... more

Zimbabwe emergency 'in the world's top 10 disasters'

22.12.08

Zimbabwe's medical emergency is among this year's top 10 humanitarian crises.... more

An East End triumph of hope over evil

18.12.08

Why did these men turn into murderous monsters? I try but cannot understand. Bilal Abdulla and Kafeel Ahmed were not poor, ill-educated, vulnerable, gullible or victims of racism. Confidently middle class, they had everything going for them. ... more

British guards jump from tanker to escape pirates

28.11.08

Three British security guards jumped overboard from a tanker when the vessel was attacked by Somali pirates... more

BBC prepared for Somalia risk, inquest is told

25.11.08

The BBC has defended the way it prepared to cover an assignment on which a 39-year-old journalist was shot dead... more

Indian navy blows Somali pirate ship out of the water

20.11.08

A pirate "mothership" has been blown up and sunk by an Indian warship as the piracy crisis off the coast of east Africa escalates... more

Yo ho ho and a tanker of oil – piracy’s modern cry

19.11.08

With a vast oil tanker hijacked off the coast of Somalia, piracy is back in the headlines... more

British crewmen on tanker seized by pirates are named

19.11.08

Two Britons held hostage by Somalian pirates on a supertanker were named as the Government announced tougher action to police the high seas... more

Pirates begin talks over their $250m tanker prize

18.11.08

Somali pirates who hijacked a supertanker carrying $100million of crude oil in the Arabian Sea opened negotiations with the vessel's operator... more

Terrorists seized on plane

26.09.08

German police commandos stormed a passenger jet at Cologne airport and seized two Islamic fanatics they believed were plotting a terrorist outrage... more

Return of the summer circus act: Meet the 16 Big Brother contenders

05.06.08

The latest bunch of attention-seeking exhibitionists and eccentrics, unveiled on Big Brother last night, look likely to take the show back to its outrageous worst.... more

CDs of the week

29.06.07

This week's new CD releases include the Chemical Brothers, Crowded House, rapper K'Naan and the sweet but knowing voice of Sonya Kitchell.... more

Who'll be the stars of the arts in 2007?

02.01.07

Our critics introduce the names to watch out for over the next 12 months - the ones you won’t have heard of before, the ones that you’ll suddenly see everywhere – and the one the critics will love best in 2007.... more

New rap star has rhyme and reason

23.10.06

Rising rap star K'Naan took Somalian war lords, apathetic politicians and the bling brigade to task at his outstanding five-star gig at the Jazz Cafe, says Jane Cornwell.... more