A Cyprus court has ordered the detention for eight days of an Egyptian man who admitted hijacking a domestic EgyptAir flight and diverting it to the island by threatening to blow it up with a fake explosives belt.

Everyone's clear on one thing - it's not a selfie.

By now, you might have seen the photo doing the rounds of the British man who posed for a photo with the EgyptAir hijacker.

Opposition politicians in Kosovo have disrupted parliament, using tear gas and whistles to protest over the government’s recent EU-sponsored deal with Serbia giving the country’s Serb-majority areas greater powers.

Shoe-bomb plotter Saajid Badat admits he was once in the thick of al Qaida’s plans, winning a hug from Osama bin Laden for his quest to blow up a US plane in mid-air.

Jury selection has begun in New York City in the trial of an Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from Britain on charges he conspired to support al-Qaida.

Ireland moved top of ICC World T20 Qualifying Group A with a tense five-run win over the United Arab Emirates in Abu Dhabi.

An Islamic Egyptian preacher brought to New York from England to face terrorism charges is forced to turn in his prosthetic arms every night in jail because officials believe the metal hook on one limb could be used as a weapon.

Villagers in Egypt briefly locked the country’s health minister and a provincial governor inside a hospital room today after allegedly contaminated water caused hundreds of residents to fall ill, officials said.

IN the small village of Baghluja just outside Dohuk, returning families, mostly Christian, have braved their lands again after not only being thrown from homes by Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1990s but after having recently discovered their fields were riddled with unexploded bombs.

HE started by hiding under a blanket in a lorry and hopes one day to wield a dentist’s drill. It’s not the screenplay of Marathon Man, but the adventurous life of Mustafa, an Afghan who has become a Dubliner.

A father who lost his wife and five of his children in a devastating house fire led hundreds of mourners carrying the tiny coffin of his two-year-old son at a funeral service today.

A devastating house fire in Britain that killed five children and their mother is believed to have been caused by a freezer, the fire service said today.

The far-right resurged in local elections in Vienna, the Austrian capital, securing the biggest gains in votes and mandates following a campaign laced with anti-Islamic rhetoric.

AN Egyptian appeals court has overturned the convictions of a leading ruling party member and a former policeman sentenced to death for the murder of a Lebanese pop diva.

A RUSSIAN-BORN German man was sentenced to life behind bars yesterday for the brutal murder of a pregnant headscarved Egyptian woman, a crime that sparked outrage in the Muslim world.

A CAIRO court sentenced to death an Egyptian tycoon and an ex-cop hitman for the murder last year of the businessman’s former lover, Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim.

Authorities have said at least 50 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb packed with ball bearings and nails amid hundreds of holiday worshippers at the home of Pakistan’s former interior minister today.

The bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons and a grandson have been exhumed and reburied near the ousted Iraqi leader’s grave in his hometown north of Baghdad.

A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-filled car into a two-vehicle convoy carrying foreigners south of the Afghan capital today, a police official said.

Muslim pilgrims circled the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, for a final time today, bringing to a close what may have been the largest ever Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, passing without the deadly stampedes that have marred the event in the past.

A defence lawyer in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial in Baghdad today demanded that the court investigate the alleged ransacking of the defence team’s office in the US-controlled Green Zone.

The chief judge in Saddam Hussein’s genocide trial threw the ex-president out of the Baghdad courtroom today in a stormy session boycotted by the former ruler’s defence team.

Palestinians lobbed several mortar shells at an Israeli settlement in the northern Gaza Strip today hours after Israeli troops ended a raid of the area which was meant to stop such attacks.

A radical Muslim cleric arrested in London today is accused in a US indictment of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon while providing aid to both al-Qaida and the Taliban.

The mastermind of a deadly rampage that killed five belonged to a Saudi opposition group in London, according to officials in the Saudi industrial town of Yanbu today.

Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in Indonesia’s capital today as officers re-arrested a militant cleric accused of heading the Jemaah Islamiyah terror network and whisked him away for questioning – on the day of his release from prison.

US soldiers raided homes and farmhouses in the hostile Sunni heartland around Baghdad yesterday, detaining dozens of suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists and saying the net was closing on the deposed dictator himself.

FALLEN Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein mourned the deaths of his sons in a new tape recording sent to an Arab TV station yesterday.

Fallen Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein mourned the deaths of his son sons in a new tape recording sent to a Arab TV station today.

US occupation authorities took the apparent gamble of cleaning up the appearance of the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s sons in a bid to convince sceptical Iraqis that Uday and Qusay are really dead.

US doctors cosmetically improved the bodies of Saddam Hussein's sons today -their faces reconstructed to appear as lifelike as possible after still photos failed to convince many Iraqis they were really dead.

The US may have to release graphic photos of the bullet-ridden corpses of Saddam Hussein’s sons to convince sceptical Iraqis that they are dead, Bush administration officials said tonight.

A former top official of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard, and cousin of the deposed leader, surrendered to coalition forces in Baghdad today, the US military said.

Thousands of weeping relatives today gathered to lay to rest the first identified victims of Europe’s worst civilian massacre since the Second World War.

Pakistani and US forces have intensified the search for Osama bin Laden along a south-western stretch of the border with Afghanistan following information from a newly captured al-Qaida deputy, Pakistani intelligence and military officials say.

A PAKISTANI woman who confessed to having an affair was forced to marry her four-year-old son to her lover’s three-year-old daughter as part of punishment imposed by village elders.

Suspected Islamic militants today blew up the vehicle of a candidate in state assembly elections in Indian-controlled Kashmir, killing three of her supporters and one armed police escort, police said.

A man in the US who recently lived in London has been arrested over suspected links to al-Qaida.

A man in the US who recently lived in London has been arrested over suspected links to al-Qaida.

The leader of a small PLO faction, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was killed today by shells fired from Israeli tanks, Palestinian doctors and witnesses said.