The British Government will make payments to former detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to settle High Court actions and help pave the way for an inquiry into allegations of British complicity in torture, the Justice Secretary said today.

A “significant” dissident republican explosives dump and arms cache has been uncovered by anti-terror gardaí.

A major dissident republican explosives dump and arms cache was uncovered today by anti-terror detectives.

Inquests into the deaths of the 52 innocent people killed in the 7/7 bombings will begin today.

The man accused of attempting to blow up a US-bound airliner on Christmas Day was recruited by al-Qaida in London, a senior minister in Yemen’s government claimed today.

Some of the suspects arrested in connection with the terror plots in London and Glasgow were known to MI5 before the attacks took place, it has emerged.

Pressure on British security service MI5 has intensified as it was claimed that the organisation did not reveal the full extent of its surveillance of the ringleader of the July 7 London bombers to the official body investigating the attack.

Police are confident that all the main players in the alleged airliner bomb plot have been accounted for, the British Home Secretary said today.

A man was shot by London police today in a raid by anti-terrorist officers and MI5 on a suspected bomb factory.

Ukraine’s top security service denied today that it had any involvement with the poisoning of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko (pictured), the leading candidate in Boxing Day’s rerun for the presidency.

JOHN SCARLETT, the man who drew up the British Government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, should not lose his job as chief of MI6 despite flaws in intelligence in the run-up to the war, the Butler report said yesterday.

John Scarlett, the man who drew up the British government’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, should not lose his job as chief of MI6 despite flaws in intelligence in the run-up to the war, the Butler report said today.

Canadian judge Peter Cory today reiterated his call for a public inquiry to be held into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

THE British Government has put off a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane despite Judge Peter Cory’s assertion that public confidence would be badly damaged if it did not go ahead immediately.

The British government today flew in the face of Judge Peter Cory’s recommendations in its decision to postpone the public inquiry into the murder of Patrick Finucane until after court action is completed.

Six terror suspects were being questioned by detectives today after traces of the deadly poison ricin were discovered, Scotland Yard said today.

Three men were arrested today under the Terrorism Act.