Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali was arrested last month in Whitehall, where he was allegedly carrying three knives.

Two of the leading lights of the official Irish squad are on track to meet in the World Handball Championships in Calgary, Canada, the draws for which were released yesterday.

A mother wept in court as one of the youngest children to plead guilty to murder was locked up at the UK's Old Bailey for a minimum of 11 years.

An elderly woman was beheaded in broad daylight in a horrific attack in a back garden in London by a man who witnesses say "was looking for a cat".