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BRITAIN’S security service MI5 asked Muammar Gaddafi’s secret services for regular updates on what terrorist suspects were revealing under interrogation in Libyan prisons, where torture was routine. MI5 also agreed to trade information with Libyan […] […]

TURKEY expelled the Israeli ambassador last night and suspended military ties with its one-time ally after a United Nations report slammed the “excessive” force used by Israel in a raid on a Gaza aid flotilla. […] […]

Police in California say a python underwent emergency surgery after a man allegedly bit the creature twice. Sgt. Andrew Pettit says officers were called to the Del Paso Heights neighborhood around 6:30 pm Thursday after […] […]

Muammar Gaddafi laid out an apocalyptic vision for the country that had dared to overthrow him yesterday, telling his remaining supporters “let Libya burn” and vowing death for those guilty of disloyalty. “Those who do […] […]

A Jamaican drug kingpin described by United States authorities as among the world’s most dangerous drug dealers yesterday pleaded guilty to racketeering and assault charges Christopher Coke admitted his leadership in an international criminal organisation […] […]

THERE is no credible terror threat against the United States linked to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but the nation is under “heightened” vigilance, a top security official says. American counter-terrorism efforts underwent […] […]

HUGE demonstrations have rocked Syria, including a rally urging Russia to stop arms sales to the regime and another in support of an official who resigned in protest at the government’s brutal crackdown, activists say. […] […]

UK police have arrested two men as part of a trans-Atlantic investigation into attacks carried out by the hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security. Scotland Yard said a 24-year-old and a 20-year-old were arrested at […] […]

A US citizen who says he risks prison in Thailand has sued an Internet company for allegedly handing over his personal data, in a legal test touching on the kingdom’s tough ban on royal insults. […] […]

ANTI-secrecy group WikiLeaks says that its massive archive of unredacted US State Department cables has been exposed in a security breach. The files now appear to be circulating freely around the web, and WikiLeaks is […] […]