To view this content you need Flash and Javascript enabled in your browser. Please download Flash from the Adobe download website. 3:20pm UK, Thursday April 12, 2012 A conversation on a confidential anti-terrorism hotline at the Metropolitan Police has been illegally recorded and leaked on the internet, police have said. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: [...]

Fresh shelling has been reported in Syrian cities and towns despite the foreign minister claiming the government had begun to comply with a peace plan that requires it to withdraw its troops. Activist Dana Al Homsy in Homs told Sky News: “The Syrian army is not withdrawing, they are actually shelling the city right now. [...]

Radical preacher Abu Hamza and four other terror suspects can be extradited to the United States, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. The five men had argued that imprisonment in a ‘supermax’ prison in the US, with the possibility of solitary confinement and a life sentence without parole, would breach their human rights. [...]

Witchcraft or “kindoki” is a widespread belief in parts of central and western Africa. But the extreme rituals that resulted in the death of Kristy Bamu in an east London flat in Christmas 2010 are a relatively new phenomenon. People from all backgrounds and social classes see it as a normal extension of their spiritual [...]