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Egyptian commandos plucked six Israelis to safety from their Cairo embassy as protesters stormed the building and dumped diplomatic papers from a balcony, an Israeli official said on Saturday. ‘Six people were actually trapped in the embassy and there was a real concern for their lives,’ the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. ‘In […]

Michael Jackson’s family planned to spirit the singer out of the United States (US) rather than see him jailed if he was convicted at his 2005 child abuse trial, his brother said in an interview published on Saturday. Jermaine Jackson told Britain’s Times newspaper that a private jet financed by a friend was ready to […]

THE mission to kill Osama bin Laden was almost called off at the last minute due to a lack of certainty over whether the terrorist leader was living in a Pakistani compound, a new documentary has revealed. In his first detailed interview since the al-Qaeda leader was shot dead by Navy Seals, US president Barack […]

US security officials said on Thursday they are investigating a credible terror threat to the United States ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. ‘In this instance, it’s accurate that there is specific, credible but unconfirmed threat information,’ the Department of Homeland Security said. ‘We have taken, and will continue to take all […]

Riots that swept across the UK were the result of a penal system that fails to stop “a feral underclass” reoffending, Britain’s justice secretary says. Writing for The Guardian, Kenneth Clarke revealed that 75 per cent of over-18s charged with involvement in last month’s unrest had criminal records. In brief excerpts on the newspaper’s website, […]

Senior US flight control officers on Tuesday recalled the harrowing and chaotic minutes 10 years ago when they realised that the busy skies over New York had turned into war zone. ‘It started out like any other day,’ Mr Terry Biggio, air operations manager on the Boston Air Route, said in video comments released by […]

South Korea’s Samsung Electronics said Monday it has withdrawn its new tablet computer from a major electronics fair in Berlin after a German court accepted a complaint from U.S. rival Apple. Samsung Sunday removed its Galaxy Tab 7.7 inch from the annual IFA show following an order Friday from a district court in Duesseldorf banning […]

Tony Blair is godfather to Rupert Murdoch’s youngest children, according to an interview with the media tycoon’s wife. The former Prime Minister was reportedly present in March last year when Murdoch’s two daughters by his third wife, Wendi, were baptised by the banks of the Jordan. The information was not made public and its emergence […]

If a stranger approached you in a McDonald’s parking lot and offered to sell an iPad on the cheap, how would you react? For Ashley McDowell, the answer was an immediate yes. According to the sheriff’s office in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, in the US, Ms McDowell, 22, was picking up food at a McDonald’s […]

The 9/11 commission was set up to make sure such an attack never happens again. A decade on, its members say key recommendations have not been heeded and holes remain in US terror defences. The commission, now reformed as an implementation group, acknowledges better collaboration between the CIA and the FBI and successes like the […]