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Poilice believe they may have thwarted a significant terrorist plot in London after seizing half a tonne of fertiliser used for bomb making in co-ordinated raids.

Spain said today it was investigating an extremist Moroccan Islamist group for possible involvement in the Madrid train bombings, as police brought in another three suspects over the attacks.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan fired one top official and demoted another over the August bombing of UN Baghdad headquarters.

If the Hamas leadership is capable of seeing beyond its rage over last week's assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, it would call off any plans to kill Ariel Sharon and begin praying for his wellbeing.

He doesn't have a lawyer in the room, but Saddam Hussein apparently is practicing what most attorneys would advise: Don't talk.

Spanish police stopped the car carrying the explosives used to kill 189 people in the Madrid train bombing but let it continue on its way, it was disclosed yesterday.

Mounting piles of leaking and stinking rubbish in the Naples area are to be sent to Germany to avert an environmental and public health catastrophe.

The Red Cross in Seoul illegally distributed more than 75,000 bags of blood donated by people who in the past had tested positive for hepatitis, and its officials should be penalised, South Korea's state auditor said yesterday.

Here you will find short reports on the current state of play in each Member State on the implementation of the race equality Directive into national law.

A French lawyer who has made his name representing terrorists and a Nazi leader says he has agreed to defend Saddam Hussein.