A former head of the Royal Navy has branded Edward Snowden a “traitor” and “irresponsible” after the US whistleblower declined to reveal if he had read every document he leaked to the press.

BRITISH prime minister Gordon Brown said yesterday that climate change and pandemic disease threaten international security as much as terrorism and that Britain must radically improve its defences.

Britain's security Minister has claimed the fight against terrorism in the UK could take 15 years.

Coast Guard vessels have pulled dozens of bodies from the water today after an Egyptian passenger ferry carrying around 1,300 people (or up to 1,415 according to some reports), mostly Egyptian workers returning from Saudi Arabia, sank in the Red Sea overnight.

THE testimony of a 12-year-old schoolgirl who escaped the clutches of the Moors Murderers has been published for the first time.