Ann Salter

Radical cleric Abu Hamza has launched a last-minute appeal to the high court to block his extradition to the US to face terrorism charges.

Following the appearance yesterday at the Old Bailey of, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and other senior employees over their part in the alleged phone hacking scandal at The News of the World.

Charity group Save the Children has released a shocking report, entitled 'Untold Atrocities, The Story of Syria's Children', which reveals shocking atrocities committed against children.

International election monitors gave a thumbs-down today to a parliamentary election in Belarus, Russia, saying it was neither free nor fair.

Gale force winds, heavy rains and flooding have resulted in three deaths over the weekend in Britain with severe weather warnings in place for the next few days.

Imagine the scene for chief Tory whip Andrew Mitchell, after a hard day in politics, you are riding your bike happily out of the main Downing Street exit, and a policeman asks you to use a side entrance.

A search operation has resumed in Nepal for at least seven climbers missing on Mount Manaslu, where an avalanche killed at least nine others on Sunday. Poor weather had forced the suspension of earlier rescue efforts on the Himalayan peak.

The former Chinese police Chief Wang Lijun, who was at the heart of China's biggest political scandal in recent times, has been sentenced to 15 years on charges ranging from abuse of power to defection to a US embassy.

A plane has dramatically overshot the runway at Birmingham Airport today.

Thousands of keen fans have camped out around the world to get their hands on Apple's newest smartphone the iPhone 5. Here in London almost 1300 people turned up at the flagship store on Regent Street for one of the phones.

Fresh protests continue In Pakistan; over an alleged anti-Islam film.Reports in confirm; clashes between police and protesters in the cities of Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Karachi.

As Dale Cregan appeared at Manchester Magistrate's court this morning, he was formally charged with murdering two police officers - PC Fiona Bone, 32, and PC Nicola Hughes, 23 - in Mottram, Tameside on Tuesday.

Dale Creegan will appear at Manchester Magistrates court this morning charged with the murders of two female police officers - PC Fiona Bone and PC Nicola Hughes.

South London gangster and rival of the notorious Kray Twins, Charlie Richardson, has died at the age of 78 after collapsing with peritonitis.

British Naval forces are taking part in a joint operation with 30 other countries, to sweep the Persian Gulf of mines. As tensions grow between Israel and Iran, over Tehran's nuclear power programme.

Camp Bastion in Afghanistan has woken up for the first time, to the sounds of a new born baby's cries. After a female serving soldier who didn't even know she was pregnant, gave birth unexpectedly to a baby boy after complaining of stomach pains.

A second as yet unnamed man has been arrested on, suspicion of conspiracy to murder, following the shocking deaths of two unarmed female police officers from Greater Manchester Police on Tuesday.

The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo which caricatures religious figures of all faiths, has gone ahead with publishing its cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in defiance of the recent worldwide Muslim protests.

Just one day after striking miners at the Lonmin-owned Marikana platinum mine ended their six-week strike after accepting a 22% pay rise.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are on their way back to the UK ending a nine-day Diamond Jubilee tour of south-east Asia and the South Pacific.

Manchester Police have confirmed that Dale Cregan was out on bail, the suspect in the murder of two female Police officers constables Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone who were killed in a gun and grenade attack yesterday in Mottram, Greater Manchester.

The trial of Wang Lijun a former police chief who defected to a US consulate and triggered the downfall of high ranking politician Bo Xilai whose wife Gu kilai killed the British businessman Neil Heywood.

The first new drug in 15 years has been launched in the UK today to treat women suffering from terminal breast cancer.

PLEASE BE WARNED THIS FOOTAGE CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES.A female suicide bomber belonging to an Afghan insurgent group has carried out a suicide bomb attack on a mini bus killing twelve people.

Nearly 50,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK. Among these, an estimated 4,000 cases of breast cancer are linked to excess bodyweight.

Indonesia has become the latest Muslim country to protest outside a US embassy.

Six NATO soldiers including two British soldiers belonging to the 3rd Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment have been killed, in two green on blue attacks over the weekend.

Guatemala's Fuego volcano has erupted, spewing out smoke and ash, forcing the widespread evacuation of thousands of Guatemalans living in the shadow of the massive volcano.

The violence and protests continue today in Sudan, Turkey, Lebanon and Cairo over an alleged anti-Muslim film. With reports just in, that protesters have attacked, the US and Germany Embassies in Sudan and smoke can be seen rising from the buildings.