Detainees interrogated in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks gave US intelligence agents the breakthrough they needed to hunt down Osama bin Laden, senior Obama administration officials said.

The UK government came under increasing pressure today to help set free British residents held at Guantanamo Bay after it emerged an offer from America was turned down.

HUNDREDS of mentally-ill prisoners are facing execution in the US, according to an Amnesty International report.

Amnesty International is calling on British Judicial figures not to work with the planned inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane.