High-profile businessman Peter Foster, notorious for his business dealings with Cherie Blair, was today ordered to stand trial for alleged fraud in Australia and the South Pacific.

The Australian government has come under fire from civil libertarians and supporters of an Indian doctor accused of links to the failed car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

The Australian government said today that a doctor allegedly linked to the failed British car bomb terror plot would be detained for immigration breaches, overriding a magistrate who had earlier granted him bail.

Australian police searched a home in Perth today as an Indian doctor was charged in connection with the attempted bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.

Australian police charged an Indian doctor today with providing reckless support to a terrorist organisation by giving his mobile phone SIM card to two of the suspects in the failed British bomb attacks.