Lebanese weapons alarm: Syrian rebels ‘major clients’

Published: 28 May, 2012, 12:15

Illegal arms smuggling in Syria’s neighbor Lebanon has caused outcry, with the UN urging the government to tackle the issue. In the midst of Syria’s spiraling conflict, more reports of Lebanese weapons fueling…

Oops, BBC: Iraq photo to illustrate Houla massacre?

Published: 28 May, 2012, 18:23

With the shock of the Houla tragedy ringing across the world, the BBC has released a story with a harrowing picture of rows and rows of children's bodies awaiting burial… But isn’t that post-Saddam Iraq?…

Another warming myth busted: Climate change ISN'T to blame for melting glacier in Bolivia - but our aerosols are

• Particles settle in glaciers, increasing capacity to absorb solar radiation
• Glaciers in Bolivia melting faster than expected - in contrast to others in Himalayas which are melting slower than estimates
• Industry…

You're a war criminal! Security probe after protester bursts into courtroom as Tony Blair gives evidence at Leveson Inquiry

• Intruder was filmmaker and veteran Iraq War protester David Lawley-Wakelin
• He burst in through from behind Lord Justice Leveson through security-coded entrance reserved for the judge…

Police block hundreds of protesters during demo at site growing experimental GM wheat crop

• Up to 400 people demonstrate at Rothamsted Institute in Hertfordshire
• Protest group Take The Flour Back want to rip up experimental crops
• Scientists say they threaten to destroy years of painstaking research…

UFO sighting by RAF pilot captured on radar left government's chief scientist 'convinced' by evidence

By Chris Hanlon

PUBLISHED: 18:12 GMT, 27 May 2012 | UPDATED: 18:38 GMT, 27 May…

Naked man shot dead by police as he chewed victim's face off by side of freeway

By Christine Show

PUBLISHED: 04:56 GMT, 27 May 2012 | UPDATED: 20:57 GMT, 27 May 2012…

US Air Force using counterfeit Chinese parts

Published: 22 May, 2012, 16:45

Bootleg electronic components have found their way onto the US Air Force’s aircraft. An investigation by the Congress has exposed counterfeit electronic parts being used by major aircraft corporations Boeing, Lockheed Martin and…

Porn star pleads guilty to killing tattoo shop owner found bludgeoned and stabbed to death after sex party

• Amanda Logue, 30, to serve about 40 years in prison in plea deal
• Accused of killing 41-year-old Dennis Abrahamsen with her boyfriend Jason Andrews in 2010
• Logue was hired to attend sex party at Abrahamsen's Florida…

The haunting photographs of early 20th century American child workers that helped change labour laws

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 04:30 GMT, 22 May 2012 | UPDATED: 11:54 GMT, 22 May…

Missing girl 'buried in murdered mobster's tomb was kidnapped for Vatican sex parties', claims Catholic Church's leading exorcist priest

• Father Gabriel Amorth, 85, has carried out more than 70,000 exorcisms
• Previously said yoga and Harry Potter are 'the work of the Devil'
• Emanuela Orlandi, 15, went missing in Rome in…

Judge rules that millions can sue NYPD over stop-and-frisk

Published: 17 May, 2012, 00:12

A federal judge in New York has given the go ahead for a class action lawsuit to move forward against the city’s police department over allegations that its stop-and-frisk…

US judge blocks indefinite detention of Americans

Published: 17 May, 2012, 04:09

A US federal judge has temporarily blocked a section of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act that allows for the indefinite military detention of US citizens.

­In a 68-page ruling, US District…

Servicemen steal and sell nearly $2 million in guns

Published: 17 May, 2012, 01:32

Investigators have tracked down around $1.8 million in missing US military weaponry, and no, the loot wasn’t just left behind in barracks and bunkers. Instead it went directly to street…

King draws up emergency plans for Greece leaving single currency as investors pull 1.4billion euros out of crisis-hit country in just two days

• Experts believe a Greek withdrawal could put pressure on Spain and Portugal to do the same, triggering a collapse of the euro
• Despite the instability the eurozone…

Left-wing group named after Greek riot dog torch EU finance chief's car

• Group named after Greek riot dog called Loukanikos
• Horst Reichenbach is leader of EU task force on Greece
• Left sees him responsible for Greece's economic woe
• His wife had parked the car near their home in…

Pictured: The glittering flare of a solar storm - seven times the size of Earth - which is raging across the sun's surface

By Ted Thornhill and Eddie Wrenn

PUBLISHED: 10:28 GMT, 14 May…

Firearms officer in 'suicide riddle' after he is found with gunshot wounds at police station

By Rebecca Camber

PUBLISHED: 00:58 GMT, 15 May 2012 | UPDATED: 00:58 GMT, 15 May…

Greece could quit the euro, admits Merkel as global markets are plunged into turmoil

• Growing pessimism over future of single currency in current form
• Greek political paralysis as talks continue at 7.30pm to form government
• Communists vow to take to the streets as fears of civil war grow…

Plastic explosives: Al-Qaeda-trained surgeons put the bomb in suicide bombers

Published: 13 May, 2012, 18:48

The hunt is on for doctors implanting explosives in suicide bombers in Yemen. Security has been stepped up at airports worldwide as surgically-doctored terrorists plot revenge attacks following the one-year…