Author: Associated Press
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, tried to destroy the plane by injecting
chemicals into a package of pentrite explosive concealed in his underwear,
authorities say.
The failed attack caused popping sounds and flames that passengers and crew
rushed to extinguish.
Read more on Nigerian man indicted in plot to blow up plane…
Author: Reuters
Brown will host the event in London on 28 January. The high-level meeting will
be held in parallel with an international conference on Afghanistan the same
day.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian who says he was trained by
al Qaeda in Yemen, is accused of trying to blow up a US passenger jet as it
approached Detroit on Christmas Day.
The poster is, according to the United Nations, the sinister symbol of the rise of a new racism and xenophobia in the heart of one of the world’s oldest independent democracies.
Author: By Raymond Whitaker in Piraman Dehari, Pakistan
What happened to her was that she was injured in an air attack last spring, when Pakistani forces launched an offensive to seize back the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, and has been mentally disturbed ever since. “I can’t tolerate noise or any quarrelling among the smaller children,” she said. “I have tried to attack them with a brick, but I was stopped in time.”
Read more on The IoS Christmas Appeal: Pakistan’s families caught in the crossfire…
Author: By Daniel Bentley, Press Association
Raza Gilani insisted that Osama bin Laden was not in Pakistan and that his
security forces had been “extremely successful” in tackling
terrorists within its borders.
Read more on Pakistani PM hits back over anti-terror effort…
After two months in a camp, the family returned to their village in Buner
district, but their lives remain shattered. “We are all living in one
room, I don’t have the money to rebuild any more of the house,” said
Sher Ahmed. “I used to sell milk from our cow and hire out my horse and
cart, but my animals were also killed. Now and then I can earn about 250
rupees [less than £2] a day unloading goods in the market.”
Author: By Jamie Grierson and Aleisha Scott, Press Association
Mr Griffin stood on the high street where hearses carrying the soldiers’ Union
Flag-draped coffins were due to arrive.
Wearing a black coat, adorned with a poppy, the controversial MEP stood with a
minder opposite family and friends of the fallen soldiers.
Author: By David Hughes, Press Association
On the final day of the Brighton conference, Mr Miliband said Labour had the
energy and ideas to win the next election.
And he accused Tory leader David Cameron of showing the “white flag of
surrender to euro-extremism” in his own party.
Read more on Miliband warns: Don’t do Tories’ dirty work for them…
