The alleged attempts by two would-be suicide bombers to detonate their rucksack bombs on a crowded underground train and on top of a double-decker bus, both in the middle of London, were shown on dramatic CCTV recordings to a hushed courtroom yesterday.

On July 21, 2005, four members of a gang allegedly tried to detonate bombs on three Tube trains and a bus but the devices failed to go off. A fifth man is said to have abandoned his bomb after apparently “losing his nerve”

Britain’s secret intelligence service, MI6, has challenged the government’s claim that a major corruption inquiry into Saudi Arabian arms deals was threatening national security.

The BBC has been accused of covering up the truth after it dropped plans to film a politically sensitive drama about Jean Charles de Menezes who was gunned down by police marksmen at Stockwell Tube station

Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and the former head of Iraq’s revolutionary court were hanged before dawn today in Baghdad, two weeks after the execution of the former dictator.

A giant database of people’s personal details could be created at Whitehall under government plans which ministers say will help improve public services.

The L.A. Times is featuring an Op-Ed assembled from letters written by a detainee held in the “darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo.”

The great and legendary novelist and philosopher Robert Anton Wilson has finally slipped this mortal coil, as was announced on his official and new blogger site. Pretty much his last official professional act was to start a blog from his deathbed in December 2006.

Jury selection began Thursday in the trial of six men accused of trying to bomb London’s transport network, with the judge telling prospective jurors they would be asked to decide whether the suspects had intended to kill, not whether religion could be used to justify violence.

Prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba are being driven insane by a tightening of conditions and the situation of their indefinite detention without trial, according to lawyers and rights activists involved with the US camp.

It was supposed to be a reconciliation meeting, a get-together to introduce the Sunni Muslim mayor and police chief of this city north of Baghdad to the mostly Shiite Muslim Iraqi soldiers who’d been assigned to protect their town.

The head of MI5 told MPs a day before the July 7 bombings in London that the country faced no imminent terrorist threat, it has been reported.

Many people died on Tuesday when a US air strike was launched on a southern Somali village occupied by Islamists.

LAWYERS will today argue that police interviews with Prince Charles over Princess Diana’s death must be made public.