The mother of a young British jihadist who returned from Syria has appealed for support from the government, claiming her son is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The Independent reports that the woman, who converted to Islam along with her
Jewish children in Britain are being drilled on what to do in the event of a terrorist attack. The Independent reports that children aged 10 and 11 in north London have described how they are trained to play “sleeping lions”
A five-year-old boy has been handed an invoice for missing his friend’s birthday party, and his parents now claim they are being threatened with court action if they fail to pay. The Plymouth Herald reports that Derek Nash, from Torpoint,
Police in Britain have been put on high alert and warned they could be targeted in jihadi terror attacks following the uncovering of a plot against officers in Belgium this week. The threat level against officers has been raised to
British police are stepping up security in Jewish areas in response to last week’s terror attacks in Paris, Britain’s most senior counter-terror officer has said. Assistant Commission Mark Rowley revealed that the heads of police forces around the country are
Protesters took to the streets of Istanbul after Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet published a four-page supplement of cartoons from the latest edition of Charlie Hebdo. The paper chose not to print the famous front-cover showing Mohammed crying in the suppliment, but
A French Muslim coffee shop owner has received death threats after displaying a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” outside his London café. Adel Defilaux says a man stormed into his business, The Antishop, in Brick Lane, East London, at 9.30
The wife of a man who mentored the Kouachi brothers is living on state benefits in Leicester in the UK after deciding France was too strict on Muslims. Sylvie Beghal, whose husband Djamel is suspected of training the men who
A 27-year-old man has revealed how he guided police while hiding in a box as Charlie Hebdo terrorists Said and Cherif Kouachi holed themselves up in a print plant. Lilian Lepere spent six hours hiding, all the time texting crucial
Broadcaster and columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer gave an impassioned defence of freedom of expression on BBC Question Time last night. Criticising the decision by British newspapers not to print the Charlie Hebdo cartoons depicting Mohammed, she accused them of “bottling it”
On last night’s BBC Question Time, presenter David Dimbleby read out the BBC’s editorial guidelines on depicting Mohammed, which confirm the Muslim prophet should never be shown. Following a debate on the Paris shootings and whether media outlets should show
Conservative Party campaign group RoadTrip2015 has been criticised after posting a Facebook status mentioning the Paris terror attacks as a reason for activists to get the party’s candidates elected. The group said: “The news from Paris has confirmed that now
A former writer for Charlie Hebdo has said the next edition of the magazine will be published as usual next week despite the murder of ten of its journalists yesterday. Caroline Fourest, who worked for the satirical magazine in 2011,
A huge manhunt is underway in France for two suspected gunmen in the terror attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. French police have released images of brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both in their early 30s, who are suspected
Actress Ellen Page has tweeted an angry message expressing her fury about the Queen giving a top award to a North Ireland politician blamed Hurricane Katrina on gay people. Maurice Mills, a Democratic Unionist councillor for Ballymena, was made a
A couple who were urged to abort their ‘non-viable’ baby have now celebrated his first birthday. Jett Morris survived five weeks in his mother’s womb after her waters broke prematurely when she was 20 weeks pregnant. He was born weighing
Prince Andrew’s former friend Jeffrey Epstein used “aggressive witness tampering” on his employees who later refused to answer questions about the prince, US investigators have said. Multi-millionaire Epstein is also alleged to have paid witnesses who invoked their right to
A Greek left-wing extremist who has been recaptured after a year on the run was planning an armed assault on a maximum security prison in Athens to free inmates, police have said. The BBC reports that Christodoulos Xiros of Marxist
The girl who alleges she was abused by Prince Andrew was introduced to the Queen during a visit to London, her father has claimed. Sky Roberts, whose daughter Virginia claims the prince abused her on three occasions, said that his
Buckingham Palace has moved quickly to officially deny “any suggestion of impropriety with underage minors” by Prince Andrew after he was named in US court papers alleging he abused a 17-year-old girl. A motion was filed in a Florida court
A woman who alleges she was used as an underage sex slave by rich and powerful men has claimed in a US court document that she was repeatedly forced to have sexual relations with Prince Andrew. The accusation is contained
A group of Islamist hackers hoping to disrupt travel throughout the Western world instead took control of a bus timetable website for the city of Bristol in southern England. ‘Darkshadow’, a group of hackers apparently based in Tunisia, replaced the
The Italian navy has this morning taken control of an unmanned cargo ship with an estimated 450 migrants aboard that was on a collision course with the coast, the second such vessel to be abandoned and set to crash in
Britain gave more than £1 billion to some of the world’s most corrupt countries in 2013, possibly even helping fund extremism, despite numerous warnings that the money was being misspent. Anti-corruption group Transparency International says that all but 20 of
Dozens of bodies, along with aircraft wreckage and oxygen tanks, have been found floating the Java Sea, about six miles from where AirAsia flight QZ8501 last communicated with air traffic control. Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Director SB Surpriyadi said
