Former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden, who leaked details of secret surveillance operations in the UK and US, is believed to have arrived in Russia, according to reports.

Religious freedom is a right but not an absolute one, Europe’s top court said, ruling that British Airways discriminated against a devoutly Christian employee by making her remove her crucifix, but backing a British charity that fired a marriage counsellor who refused to give sex therapy to gay couples.

A British Airways employee who claimed she suffered discrimination at work because of her faith has won a landmark legal battle at the European Court of Human Rights.

BRITAIN’S army said the death of an Iraqi detainee in Basra had cast a “dark shadow” over its reputation, after an inquiry found he suffered “gratuitous violence” at the hands of soldiers.

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

The UK government's terrorism watchdog is to investigate the arrests of six men in London questioned by police over an alleged plot to attack the Pope, the British Home Secretary has confirmed.

BRITAIN’S government yesterday disclosed a once-secret description of “cruel, inhuman and degrading” US treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, losing a long court battle to keep the material classified.

The pre-charge detention limit for terror suspects in Britain is already much longer than in comparable countries, according to a survey by human rights group Liberty.

The European Convention on Human Rights does apply to the case of an Iraqi man who died while in the custody of British troops, the House of Lords ruled today.

THE FBI has been accused of “hounding” a British banker who was found dead yesterday.

The head of a leading British human rights group has slammed the Irish Government's failure to investigate CIA flights passing through Shannon Airport.

BRITAIN’s police chief, already under pressure over the mistaken shooting of a suspected suicide bomber, is facing fresh calls to resign for secretly recording a phone call with the country’s senior legal adviser.

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The shooting dead of an innocent Brazilian by anti-terror police in London was branded “shocking and terrifying” after new details of alleged police blunders emerged.

TEN terror suspects, including a radical preacher described as “al-Qaida’s ambassador to Europe”, were detained yesterday in a series of early morning raids across Britain.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday announced radical, wide- ranging powers to deport Muslim extremists.

The British media must use more “self-restraint” to ensure the July 21 bomb suspects can receive a fair trial, a civil liberties group said today.

Britain’s most senior police officer today warned al-Qaida are targeting Britain – and called for new laws to tackle terrorist conspiracies.

The British government today signalled it will offer no more significant concessions to critics of its proposals to impose restrictions including house arrest on suspected terrorists.