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.

A British man who admits his role in a plot to use explosives hidden in shoes to blow up planes in 2001 today testified by video at the US trial of Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law.

The credibility of Europe’s efforts to restore confidence in its financial system hangs in the balance as lawmakers try to broker a deal on a bank-failure authority for the 18-nation eurozone.

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MEPs say they will fight proposals from EU Financial Services Commissioner Michel Barnier that would water down legislation capping banker bonuses.

A British man who trained to be a shoe bomber said Osama bin Laden told him shortly after the September 11 2001 attacks that he believed a follow-up terrorist attack could doom the American economy.

A New York City jury is expected to see a video of a British man convicted over an aborted shoe-bomb plot.

ALL SQUARE at Nowlan Park yesterday, with 6,974 spectators seeing favourites Ballyhale Shamrocks level the Kilkenny SHC final deep in injury-time, depriving underdogs James Stephens a famous victory.

George W Bush faced international condemnation tonight of his claim that British lives were saved as a result of torture.

HE is suspected of packing explosives into the underwear of a Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner last Christmas and sent his own brother on a suicide mission against a top Saudi official.

The chairman of British Airways has attacked “completely redundant” airport checks and said the UK should stop “kowtowing” to US demands for increased security.

AN envoy from Qatar who authorities said had a sneaky smoke in a jetliner’s toilet and then joked about igniting his shoe, sparking a bomb scare and the scrambling of military jets, has been released from custody.

A Qatari diplomat trying to sneak a smoke in an airplane toilet sparked a bomb scare on a flight from Washington to Denver, with fighter jets scrambled and law enforcement put on high alert, officials said.

Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt an attack on America in the next three to six months, intelligence chiefs told the US Congress.

The Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect helped organise a “war on terror” conference while studying in the UK, it emerged today.

The alleged terrorist behind the Christmas Day airliner plot is said to have told US agents there are more people “just like him” ready to carry out future attacks.

The US Justice Department tonight charged the alleged Christmas Day terrorist with attempting to destroy a plane.

The student accused of trying to blow up a transatlantic jet may have been an “opportunist” like shoe-bomber Richard Reid, a terror expert said today.

An airline passenger from Nigeria who said he was acting on al Qaida's instructions set off an explosive device in a failed terror attack on the plane as it was preparing to land.

Wesley Snipes is appealing his three-year prison sentence for tax evasion, arguing his work helping to thwart terrorists makes him a national hero, according to reports.

Britain is to delay the extradition of radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza to the US to face charges that he helped set up an al Qaida terror training camp.

Shoe-bomber Richard Reid dreams that Allah will set him free, his prison letters reveal today.

Airline passengers in the US will be allowed to bring most cigarette lighters on board again starting next month, freeing airport screeners to spend more time searching for explosives.

Angelina Jolie and Mariane Pearl – the widow the Hollywood actress plays in her new movie – are appearing at the Cannes Film Festival today.

The September 11 attacks, the Bali bombing and plots against British targets were among the confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, confessed to that attack and a string of others during a military hearing at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to a transcript released by the US military.

US GOVERNMENT investigators want to question would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid because they believe it is likely he has “important information” about terrorist activities.

Federal investigators said today that they believe it is likely that would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid has “important information” about terrorist activities, and told a judge that they would like to question him, but do not believe he is entitled to a public defender now that his criminal case is over.

The US' prisons are becoming major breeding grounds for Islamic terrorists, but states and local authorities are too cash-strapped to prevent or monitor recruiting, a new report says today.

THE United States government admitted there was no proof to back Zacarias Moussaoui’s dramatic courtroom confession that he was to have been a key player in the September 11 attacks.

The US judge in the death-penalty trial of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui has said the case is one of the most complex criminal cases in American history.

THE US Government has released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison - nearly all labelled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.

THE US government yesterday conceded it had no evidence that shoe bomber Richard Reid was to have conducted a terror hijacking with Zacarias Moussaoui on September 11, 2001, as Moussaoui has claimed.

The US government today conceded it had no evidence that British would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid was to have conducted a terror hijacking with Zacarias Moussaoui, as Moussaoui has claimed.

The US government has released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison – nearly all labelled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.

Reasserting his role in the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told jurors he has “no regret, no remorse”, was disgusted by the heart-rending testimony of victims and relatives and only wished they had suffered more.

Prosecutors approached the end of their US death-penalty case against September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui after a gruelling week of testimony about the appalling impact of the September 11, 2001, attacks on victims and their families.

Jurors weighing the fate of September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui viewed gruesome photographs of bodies burned inside the Pentagon and heard from two determined military officers who crawled almost blindly to safety through falling debris, choking smoke and searing heat.

Laying out a stunning new version of his terrorist mission, al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told jurors he was supposed to hijack a fifth jetliner on September 11, 2001, with would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid and fly it into the White House.

Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified tonight that he and would-be shoe bomber British Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on September 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.

BRITISH police say London’s Finsbury Park Mosque, where jailed cleric Abu Hamza used to deliver his sermons, had links to numerous terrorism cases around the world in the last decade.

Authorities today released an Egyptian chemist detained for questioning following the July 7 bombings in London, saying he had been cleared of suspicion, an Interior Ministry official said.

Authorities today released an Egyptian chemist detained for questioning following the July 7 bombings in London, an Interior Ministry official said.

Shoe bomber Richard Reid said he made “no apologies” for his attempts to blow up a passenger jet, it emerged today.