Metropolitan Police officers are in Turkey as the search continues for three missing schoolgirls believed to have fled to Syria to join Islamic State.

A man admitted decapitating his wife when he appeared in a British court today.

Four men have been arrested in Britain in connection with an alleged Islamist terror plot.

The Metropolitan Police specialist protection command and West Yorkshire Police will conduct a review of the "incident" in Leeds in which David Cameron was apparently accidentally "shoved" by a man as he left the Civic Hall, Scotland Yard said.

Search teams are expected to start excavating a number of sites in Portugal as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

Search teams are expected to start excavating a number of sites in Portugal as part of the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

A 53-year old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 45-year old woman and a 23-month old baby girl were found dead in Hackney, Scotland Yard said.

A second man has been charged with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, Scotland Yard said today.

More than 4,000 police officers were last night being deployed to protect Margaret Thatcher’s funeral from terrorist threats and violent protest.

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A Scotland Yard police officer is to be charged with racially abusing a suspect during the summer riots, prosecutors said today.

Police are questioning two youths over the recordings of calls made to Scotland Yard’s Anti-Terrorist Hotline.

Rebekah Brooks and her racehorse trainer husband are among six suspects arrested today by detectives investigating phone hacking at News International.

Six people were arrested at addresses in the UK today by detectives investigating phone-hacking at News International, Scotland Yard said.

FORMER News of the World chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck has insisted he took “no part” in the matter which led to his sacking.

A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing a fire which destroyed the Reeves Furniture store during rioting in Croydon on Monday, Scotland Yard said tonight.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was refused bail today as he vowed to fight attempts to extradite him to Sweden.

Governments around the world must not “shoot the messenger” by attacking disclosures by WikiLeaks, Julian Assange said today.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by officers from Scotland Yard's extradition unit today.

Two people were arrested in the UK after a toddler died in a flat fire, police said today.

A toy gun belonging to a young member of a Middle Eastern royal family sparked a security alert at Heathrow airport, it emerged today.

British police who searched a plane at the centre of an alleged bomb threat found nothing and have released it back to the airline, they said today.

Police officers came under attack while they tried to help a dying man at the G20 protests in the City, Scotland Yard said.

Barry George told detectives reviewing the Jill Dando murder inquiry that they will never find her killer.

TOP Scotland Yard detectives met to discuss the “next steps” in the Jill Dando murder investigation.

A 21-year-old man was arrested today in connection with the murders of French students Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez in London, Scotland Yard said.

Scotland Yard forensic experts investigating the assassination of Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto are unlikely to discover who killed her, her supporters said today.

French police investigating the car crash which killed Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Fayed never once suggested it was anything other than a tragic accident, the inquest into their deaths heard today.

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann are the victims of a “witch-hunt” and there is no evidence to suggest they murdered their daughter, Britain’s former top police officer said today.

Four people were arrested by anti-terror police in the UK today in connection with the July 7 attacks in London, Scotland Yard said.

The probe into the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is “inconclusive” and has not proved that he was murdered, a Pakistani investigator said today.

Russian investigators said they have begun questioning in the radiation poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, a case that has left radiation traces from a London soccer stadium to the British Embassy in Moscow.

One of the suspects in the failed July 21 London suicide bombings landed back on British soil today.

Scotland Yard chief Ian Blair did not know his officers had shot an innocent man until 24 hours after Jean Charles de Menezes was killed, it emerged tonight.

Authorities today released an Egyptian chemist detained for questioning following the July 7 bombings in London, saying he had been cleared of suspicion, an Interior Ministry official said.

The massive British police investigation into the July 21 London bombings is now centred on 13 people being held, Scotland Yard said tonight.

SCOTLAND Yard yesterday named two of the men who, they believe, attempted to blow themselves up on the London transport network last week.

Detectives investigating yesterday's attempted bombings in London are searching an address in the Harrow Road area of west Kilburn, Scotland Yard said.

Police in Jamaica have interviewed the father of 19-year-old London suicide bomb suspect Germaine Lindsay, the British High Commission said today.

The victims of the July 7 terror bombings were remembered across the globe today in a dignified and defiant two-minute silence.

Anti-terror police hunting the London bombers were led to six properties in West Yorkshire today by links to a suspected bomber who died in the bus blast, sources said.

At least 170 British investors were allegedly duped out of £30m (€45.6m) by US fraudsters who convinced them they were helping to fight the war on terror, it emerged today.

Two men were freed on police bail tonight after being arrested over the murder of an American jogger and the stabbing of another woman in London parks.

Exclusive London store Harvey Nichols suffered damage worth more than £250,000 after a drunken customer set off its sprinkler system, it emerged today.