Demo 2010 student protests

Demo 2010 student protests: Demonstrators gain entry to 30 Millbank. Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images
A police spokesman tonight said 32 people had been arrested for a range of offences, including criminal damage and trespass, and were now in custody. Those arrested are being taken to a police stations across central London including Westminster and Fulham.

Cameron in China: What does Beijing think of us? Let's start with hypocrisy

David Cameron with China's premier Wen Jiabao. The British PM's case over human rights has been weakened by recent news stories. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
As David Cameron vowed to raise human rights as a topic of discussion in Beijing today, it became the subject of two other international news stories.

Awlaqi lawyer denies cleric linked to killing of Frenchman

A still image of a video taken on Monday from the website muslm.net shows Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric linked to al-Qaeda in Yemen speaking from an undisclosed location.Picture: Reuters

A LAWYER for radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, accused of incitement to kill foreigners, denied yesterday the imam was linked to the murder of a Frenchman in Yemen and said his whereabouts are unknown.
Awlaqi and his relative, Othman al-Awlaqi, have been charged in absentia with "incitement to kill

Qantas reviews way it runs A380s in engine investigation

Qantas employees walk under one of the engines of a Qantas A380 during Qantas' 90th anniversary celebrations at Sydney Airport last Sunday.Picture: AFP

QANTAS Airways is reviewing the way it operates its A380s after last week's engine blowout, a source said yesterday, amid reports the carrier worked its Rolls-Royce engines harder than rivals.
Qantas's use of its A380 engines is being looked into as part of a wider investigation into why a Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine blew apart last

Mumbai attacker plotted attacks in Copenhagen: report

DAVID HEADLEY, who helped plan the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had been preparing several attacks in the Danish capital in cooperation with an Al-Qaeda-linked group, a Danish newspaper reported yesterday.
Headley, a Pakistani-American who has confessed to helping plot the Mumbai attacks that left 166 dead, has already been charged with plotting an attack on a Danish newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

Libyan president orders release of 20 journalists

VETERAN Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has ordered the release of 20 journalists working for titles close to his reformist son, who were arrested amid a mounting backlash from conservatives, state television reported.
The Oea weekly and the Libyapress news agency, both run by the Al-Ghad publishing company sponsored by Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, said Monday that 10 of their journalists had been picked up by agents of the Internal Security Agency, among them three Tunisians and two Egyptians. A further 10 journalists working for Al-Ghad titles were rounded up in a second wave of arrests.

Nuclear fuel swap talk an 'independent issue': Iran

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki speaks during a press conference in Tehran yesterday. Picture: AFP
IRAN reiterated yesterday that the nuclear fuel swap issue was separate from its overall atomic programme for which the six world powers and Tehran are expected to hold talks later this month.
"We have said from the beginning that these two issues are independent from one another," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told AFP.

35 injured Iraqis arrive in France

A group of wounded Iraqis wait at Orly airport in Paris upon their arrival in France for hospital treatment last Monday.Picture: AFP
THIRTY-FOUR Iraqi Christians and a Muslim guard wounded in a deadly al-Qaeda attack on a Baghdad church just over a week ago flew in to France late Monday for admission to hospitals for treatment.
Bearing bullet and grenade wounds from the October 31 attack, they arrived at Orly airport outside Paris on a plane dispatched to Iraq earlier Monday to

Chirac faces new corruption charges

A MAGISTRATE said Monday that former French president Jacques Chirac will stand trial on a second set of corruption charges dating to the 1990s when he was mayor of Paris, an official said.
Investigating magistrate Jacques Gazeaux decided to refer Chirac, 77, to a criminal court over the case involving alleged use of public funds to pay salaries to his political allies, said a judicial official who asked not to be named.

German nuke waste convoy arrives after mass protests

 

Police watch as anti-nuclear protesters set a fire before the Castor transport of nuclear waste makes its way on the road to Gorleben, northern Germany, yesterday.Picture: AFP
Accompanied by swarms of riot police and dozens of armoured police cars, the convoy of 11 white containers on lorries crawled slowly into its storage site at Gorleben, northern Germany, after a 20-kilometre (12-mile) road trip.