Abdulmutallab's father 'warned CIA' about son

Airline bomb plot suspect's father met a CIA agent to discuss his son's extremist views but report was not circulated

UK thought Reagan would be a lazy president

Archive papers reveal British diplomats’ verdict on Republican candidate in the early days of US election campaign

Al-Qaeda ‘groomed bomber in London’

Security sources are concerned that British Universities, especially those in London, are becoming a hotbed of Islamist radicalisation

Reality of civilian casualties and Nato's role

President Karzai may point fingers but deaths linked to Nato forces drop from 38 per cent last year to 22 per cent this year

Pictures of first immigrant to Ellis Island found

A family has discovered photographs of Annie Moore, who arrived in New York from Ireland in 1892, aged 15

Britain rethinks strategy on China

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office appears to have considerably overestimated its leverage with the emerging superpower

Expect more scans and more restrictions

Airlines ban blankets in laps, trips to the lavatory and use of seatback maps for the last hour of every flight

Iranian protest is 'unstoppable'

The Tehran leadership and its Revolutionary Guards are facing a massive campaign of civil disobedience

Berlusconi drives hard bargain for Russian car

The Italian Prime Minister has bagged himself 10 per cent off a new, Russian-built SUV, Vladimir Putin reveals

How Britain tactfully told the Shah to keep out

National Archive papers show the extraordinary efforts made to avoid upsetting the new regime in Iran

Yemen minister: country has 300 al-Qaeda planning attacks

The country's Foreign Minister appealed for international help to help train and equip counter-terrorist forces

Iran crackdown intensifies with new arrests

Sister of Nobel prize winner among 18 arrested as Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over unrest

Obama: we will scour world for terror cells

President breaks his silence three days after Chistmas Day plot to blow up US passenger flight landing in Detroit

TIMELINE: Akmal Shaikh's execution

The two years of events leading up to the execution in China of a mentally ill Briton convicted of drug-smuggling

Plane bomber 'carried potent device'

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had twice as much explosive in his underwear than the shoe bomber Richard Reid

China executes 'mentally ill' Briton

Akmal Shaikh, a former taxi service manager, killed despite last minute appeals for mercy by British Government

Charlie Sheen 'threatened to kill' wife

Brooke Mueller claims Sheen placed knife at her throat and said he would kill her during late night row on Christmas Day

Joy for whale rescuers after calf is born

A pregnant whale about to calve may have called other pilot whales into dangerously shallow water causing them all to beach

New York is ‘safest city’ despite downturn

New York City is set to end the year with the lowest number of murders since record-keeping began almost half a century ago

Thai army deports Laos refugees

Hmongs, who fought with the US during the Vietnam war, say they have been persecuted by the Laotian government ever since