Heathrow Airport staff have been warned that women could conceal dangerous explosives in their breasts.

The Government intensified its sales job on the GCSB Bill yesterday, with the Prime Minister claiming some New Zealand citizens have had al-Qaeda training in Yemen.

Australian counter-terrorism agencies have warned universities, shopping centres, sporting arenas, transport hubs and other venues to prepare for mass killers.

The sound of footsteps and gunfire was coming closer where Osama bin Laden, his youngest wife Amal and one of his daughters must have known their life was reaching its end.

A majority of voters want an inquiry into the GCSB spy agency and the SIS, the latest Herald DigiPoll survey shows.

Seven al-Qaeda-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the UN compound with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault.

One of the suspects in the murder of soldier Lee Rigby is believed to have had contact with a "terrorist instructor" now in prison for running military-style training camps which were used by Islamist extremists including the 21/7 London bombers, the Inde

A New Zealand Sikh community leader facing terrorism charges in India has been released.

When the family of Drummer Lee Rigby spoke to the nation last week, we watched in absolute agony.

The heroic woman who confronted one of the terrorists in this week's savage attack in London had lived in New Zealand and her children call Auckland their hometown.

Britain scrambled fighter jets to intercept a commercial airliner carrying more than 300 people, diverting it to an isolated runway and arresting two passengers.

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett is wearing Union Flag socks. They are the same ones she was wearing on Thursday, when she jumped off the Number 53 bus to confront two alleged terrorists.

The Muslim cleric who claims to have converted suspected killer Michael Adebolajo to Islam says the attack could be justified.

The second suspect in the Woolwich murder was known for handing out radical leaflets, and a woman believed to be his girlfriend had recently converted to Islam.

Drummer Lee Rigby was a loving father who only ever wanted to be a soldier and "live life and enjoy himself", his family said yesterday.

Michael Adebolajo was well known to the police and MI5 for years as a known extremist who preached hatred on the streets of Woolwich and turned up to violent protests across London.

America's perpetual war against terrorism must come to an end, President Barack Obama declared yesterday, as he announced restrictions on drone strikes and a fresh effort to close Guantanamo Bay.

A cub scout leader confronted terrorists just seconds after they murdered a soldier warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose."

Emaciated and frail, more than 100 men lie on concrete floors of freezing, solitary cells in Guantanamo, silently starving themselves to death.

A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, his newly released death certificate says.

Shaker Aamer remembers the frantic knocking on the door, the voices screaming for him to get out.

The received wisdom is that the Tsarnaev brothers began their attack on the Boston Marathon to advance the cause of their fellow Chechens, writes Pete Lentini.

The FBI was alerted by Russia's security services to serious concerns about one of the Boston bomb suspects as recently as November, it was claimed yesterday.

Musician Amanda Palmer has been met with a flood of angry responses after writing a poem for one of the suspected Boston bombers.

The hunt for the Boston bombing suspects was successful through a combination of technology, public co-operation and sheer luck.

Hours after the first grainy images of the two men were released to the public, a portrait quickly emerged the men suspected of the deadly Boston Marathon bombing.

Extra police and security staff will be stationed along the route of the London Marathon tomorrow as one of many extra measures being taken by race organisers after consultations with the Metropolitan Police and the Mayor's office.