Indian troops said they had cleared Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel of terrorists and begun to remove bodies and hostage from the building.

THE network of people prepared to involve themselves in terror attacks in Britain is about 1,000 but it has grown sharply in recent years, figures show.

Had it succeeded, a major terrorist plot to allegedly blow up aircraft flying from the UK to the US in mid-flight could have killed unprecedented numbers of passengers, terrorism experts suggested today.

Much-loved icon of the Seventies the Honey Monster is to return to television screens after the Sugar Puffs cereal brand was acquired today.

A two-year probe into the Madrid train bombings concludes the Islamic terrorists who carried out the blasts were homegrown radicals acting on their own rather than at the behest of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network, two senior intelligence officials said.

THE British government yesterday flatly rejected an influential think-tank report which said Britain’s role in the war on Iraq left it more vulnerable to terror attacks such as the July 7 bombings.

Now the police know the identities of the four suicide bombers, the search is on for the mastermind behind the bombings.

Experts around the world called the videotape from Osama bin Laden a heavy-handed attempt to influence the impending US election, while warning against dismissing it as just propaganda.

MILITARY chiefs have been struggling to bring control to the chaotic aftermath of the siege at a school in southern Russia, an expert said.

Military chiefs have been struggling to bring control to the chaotic aftermath of the siege at a school in southern Russia, an expert said today.

A TOP-LEVEL police investigation was under way last night after a secret dossier containing counter-terror plans for Heathrow Airport was found abandoned on a road.

Eight men were being questioned tonight over an alleged al-Qaida plot to unleash a terrorist bombing campaign in Britain.

The decision to deploy armed air marshals on some passenger planes is a “sensible” step in the fight against terrorism, an expert said today.

The US must have been “extremely concerned” about a possible Christmas terror attack to ask for the suspension of flights from France, a terrorism expert said today.

Al-Qaida is a secretive network of many thousands of agents spread across the globe – each one capable of bringing mass death and destruction, a terrorism expert warned tonight.

The bomb attack that left several people dead in Kenya has all the hallmarks of an al-Qaida attack, an international terrorism expert said today.

The torch bomb which seriously injured a teenager at a London TA base bears all the hallmarks of terrorist groups, an expert says.