A young girl found wearing a suicide vest in Afghanistan has spoken about how her family "treated her like a slave" and tried to make her blow up a police checkpoint.

Details from an extraordinary exchange of letters between a care worker from Nottingham and the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks can be revealed today.

A 10-year-old Afghan girl has been apprehended while trying to carry out a suicide bombing attack against local police.

A man who received serious shrapnel wounds in the Boston bombing is set to marry the nurse who helped him through his recovery.

A Paris-bound flight was rescheduled after Venezuela grounded an Air France plane that French authorities said terrorists might have been planning to blow up.

'I'm a soldier..I couldn't do anything else.' A man accused of killing a British soldier in a frenzied knife attack in London has defended his actions.

Two men have been arrested in Sydney on charges under Australia's foreign incursion laws that forbid citizens fighting alongside armed rebel groups.

A UK terror suspect is on the run in Britain after he escaped surveillance by putting on women's clothes at a London mosque.

'It was an execution.' Questions remain about the deaths of two veteran French journalists - including how such an attack was carried out near a UN base.

The British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite wrote a poem telling of her "love" for Osama bin Laden, files found on her laptop have shown.

The family of Abu Anas al-Libi, the al-Qaeda suspect seized by American forces in Libya, claimed yesterday that he was innocent and had been working in a pizza restaurant.

Al-Shabaab is deriving funds for its terror campaigns from elephant poaching in Kenya and elsewhere, activists and conservationists claim.

British MPs are to question the Home Secretary, Theresa May, over why one of the world's most wanted al-Qaeda terror suspects.

Boko Haram gunmen opened fire in a college dormitory in northeast Nigeria as the students slept, killing 40, in the latest massacre blamed on the Islamist insurgents.

A car bomb ripped through a crowded street in Peshawar's oldest bazaar, killing 40 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city in a week, officials said.

A police doctor scouring Nairobi's Westgate mall for bodies after a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen that killed dozens has said victims were tortured before they died, according to a Kenyan newspaper.

It was one of the most moving images of Kenya's Westgate Mall terror attack - a little girl running in terror across an empty corridor to the outstretched arm of her rescuer.

After almost a week, there is no precise death toll, no word on the fate of dozens still missing and no details on the al-Qaeda-linked terrorists who attacked Nairobi's most upscale mall.

The militant behind the Nairobi assault was deemed to be too radical and hot-headed even by Osama bin Laden, who rebuffed his request for a formal alliance with al-Qaeda.

In two weeks they were due to experience the joy of becoming parents for the first time, but instead they died arm in arm in a pool of blood in a Kenyan mall.

A NZ man who narrowly survived a massacre at a Kenyan mall is undergoing surgery to remove shrapnel, while another Kiwi has described hiding in a box to avoid attackers.

A Hastings man was shot in the back during the weekend's mall massacre in Kenya, just days before he was due back in New Zealand.

Life in lower Manhattan resembled any ordinary day as workers rushed to their jobs in the muggy heat, but time stood still at the World Trade Center site while families wept for loved ones who perished in the terror attacks 12 years ago.

The mayor who has helped orchestrate the 9/11 observances from their start will be watching for his last time in office. And saying nothing.

The ordeal of David Miranda at Heathrow Airport is a critical moment in the conflict between press freedom and national security.