Indian terror suspect Mohammed Haneef tearfully reunited with a relative in a Brisbane jail today during the first family visit allowed since his arrest three weeks ago in connection with failed bombings in 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.

An Iraqi doctor today became the first person to appear in court charged in connection with the suspected car bomb plots in London and Glasgow.

Two of the men arrested in connection with car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow had links to a hospital in Cambridge, it was reported 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.

Police in Australia arrested an Indian doctor in connection with the foiled terror attacks in London and Glasgow as he tried to leave the country and were interviewing a second doctor in the case, officials said today.