Internet giants including Google could face tough new laws unless they take further steps to tackle graphic images of child abuse online, David Cameron has warned.

Child sexual abuse streamed live over the internet on services like Skype has been flagged as an emerging threat by experts.

The Jimmy Savile scandal may not have a big enough effect on social attitudes towards child abuse, a former leading judge in England said today.

A string of Twitter accounts have been closed after they were revealed to contain disturbing images of child abuse.

Almost 80 people including a Scout leader, a retired teacher and members of the Armed Forces have been arrested in raids as part of an operation targeting suspected internet paedophiles in Britain.

Three men were jailed today after they admitted running an international paedophile ring that distributed millions of indecent images and films of children to over 40 countries around the world.

A RECORD number of children have been rescued by British Police authorities from paedophiles prowling the internet for the fifth consecutive year, a specialist police unit said.

More than 120 suspected paedophiles have been arrested in Britain as part of one of the biggest global investigations ever mounted into child abuse networks on the internet, police said today.

A convicted sex offender who fled the UK is back behind bars after featuring in an online “Most Wanted” list, which led to his capture in Dublin.

The outgoing chief of Britain’s child protection agency and the host of US TV show 'America’s Most Wanted' posed as paedophiles to investigate the sex trafficking of Cambodian youngsters.

AN on-the-run Scottish paedophile was arrested in Dublin city centre yesterday.

An on-the-run Scottish paedophile was arrested today in Dublin.

FACEBOOK has joined forces with a British child protection agency to create a “panic button” application on its site, it was announced yesterday, as the social networking giant finally gave in to calls to do more to protect youngsters online.

A suspected paedophile who fled to England to escape trial has been recaptured and extradited, police said today.

JUST days after it was forced to tighten its privacy settings, social networking site Facebook is to do a U-turn on its policy of not having “panic buttons” on its web pages.

Facebook today responded to calls to step up online security by announcing a raft of new measures to “transform social networking safety”.

FACEBOOK has not passed a single complaint about suspected paedophiles grooming vulnerable child users to police in Britain, it was claimed yesterday.

A “frightening” number of children who go missing end up being sexually exploited, a charity warned today.

SOCIAL networking sites like Facebook and MySpace have been criticised for failing to provide a help button for children who are targets for bullying or sexual grooming.

British police appealed today for internet users worldwide to spread a new video aimed at pricking the conscience of the key witness who knows what happened to Madeleine McCann.

BRITISH police appealed yesterday for internet users worldwide to spread a new video aimed at pricking the conscience of the key witness who knows what happened to Madeleine McCann.

Two British men were arrested in Thailand today as part of a child abuse investigation.

Chilling interviews with convicted paedophiles could hold the key to protecting millions of children from abuse.

Madeleine McCann’s parents will today anxiously await the opinion of experts analysing a striking photograph of a girl taken by a holiday maker in Morocco.

The predator who knows someone’s innermost thoughts — the kind that might be guessed at from knowing the websites they go to, or reading their emails — is in a strong position to begin the process of manipulation that can end in abuse.

Police have smashed a global internet paedophile ring with more than 700 suspects worldwide, a British law enforcement agency said today.

A HARD-HITTING programme teaching school-children how to use the internet safely and report any approaches by predatory paedophiles directly to the police has been launched in the North — but there are no plans yet for a compulsory programme of that kind in schools on this side of the border.