A Spanish bullfighter is recovering from a five hour operation to repair his face after a terrifying goring in the north-eastern city of Zaragoza, according to a hospital official.

Rapper Missy Elliot's 37th birthday celebrations in New York were cut short at the weekend when her make-up artist was arrested for allegedly assaulting a fan.

Manchester City boss Sven-Goran Eriksson has not travelled to Mexico this weekend, according to his agent.

At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head today in one of the bloodiest bank robberies in the Philippines, police said. One employee was in critical condition in hospital.

JOSE PADILLA, a former Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a US court yesterday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism.

Former Guns 'n' Roses star Slash has launched a heartfelt appeal to help find his missing brother-in-law.

The troubled saga of actress Lindsay Lohan took another dangerous turn this morning when police booked her on suspicion of drink-driving and cocaine possession after a frightened woman called the police to report being chased by Lohan's car.

A man told a court that he learned about weapons and explosives and prepared for holy war at an al Qaida training camp allegedly attended by terror suspect Jose Padilla.

A member of an unrelated terrorist group testified today he learned about weapons and explosives and prepared for jihad at an al-Qaida training camp which prosecutors say alleged terrorist Jose Padilla also attended.

US prosecutors and lawyers for alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and two co-defendants were poised to start opening statements today in a trial expected to last well into August.

A federal judge ruled today that suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is competent to stand trial on terrorism-support charges, rejecting arguments that he was severely damaged by three and a half years of interrogation and isolation in a military brig.

Actor Woody Harrelson was involved in an alleged assault on a photographer Thursday night as he left a Hollywood nightclub.

Seven people have been arrested in connection with a plot to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and other targets, the FBI said.

US President George Bush said today the US-led global war on terror has “weakened and fractured” al-Qaida and allied groups, outlining as proof new details about the multinational cooperation that foiled terrorist plans to fly a commercial aeroplane into the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast of the US.

Jose Padilla, the alleged al-Qaida operative held as an “enemy combatant” for more than three years, was en route to Miami tonight to face charges that he was part of a US terror cell that recruited fighters and raised money for global Islamic holy war.

Two men awaiting trial on charges of recruiting soldiers for worldwide radical Islamic holy war were today ordered to remain in solitary confinement after prosecutors said they could continue spreading Muslim extremism if allowed into the regular jail population.

A former Chicago gang member held as an al-Qaida suspect for two years, sought to blow up hotels and apartment buildings in the United States in addition to planning an attack with a “dirty bomb” radiological device, the US government said today.

PRESIDENT George W Bush has overstepped his authority since the September 11 attacks by jailing American citizens suspected of links to terrorism and denying them access to lawyers and courts, an attorney for a US-born terrorism suspect told the Supreme Court yesterday.

The US Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether the constitution forbids the Bush administration from holding American citizens indefinitely and without access to lawyers or courts when they are suspected of being “enemy combatants.”

US FEDERAL courts dealt a double blow to the Bush administration’s strategy in the war on terror yesterday, ruling that the US military cannot deny prisoners access to lawyers or the American courts by detaining them indefinitely.

President George Bush does not have power to detain an American citizen seized on US soil as an enemy combatant, an appeals court ruled today.

A Texan who confessed to suffocating, stabbing and beheading his common-law wife’s three young children told a judge today he wants to be executed.

Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terror network continues to pose a serious threat, as shown by the arrest of an American suspected of preparing a ‘‘dirty’’ bomb attack on the US, Attorney General John Ashcroft said today.

The US Attorney General today said the American arrested on suspicion of plotting to detonate a ‘dirty’ radiological bomb in the US was a key al-Qaida operative who has ‘‘very significant information’’ about the terror network.