Muslim protestors demand restaurants and shops stop selling 'evil' alcohol warning them they face 40 lashes if they carry on 

• Dozens of men and women gathered on Brick Lane, East London
  
  
• Delayed as English Defence League members staged counter-protest
• Among protestors was Anjem Choudhary, former leader of…

Hitler's 9/11: How Fuhrer planned to fly suicide planes into Manhattan skyscrapers 56 years before Al Qaeda

By TONY RENNELL

PUBLISHED: 00:01 GMT, 13 December 2013 | UPDATED: 07:21 GMT, 13 December 2013

The madman…

Kinnock's son, gay rumours and a flirty blonde Prime Minister: Meet the very unusual Danish leader who dragged David Cameron and Barack Obama into that embarrassing 'selfie' row

• Helle Thorning-Schmidt, 46, is an unconventional head of state
• The Danish PM has been nicknamed 'Gucci Helle' for her wardrobe…

British photographer daughter of actress Jane Birkin and Bond film composer John Barry found dead on pavement beneath her Paris apartment

• Kate Barry, 46, was a photographer published in Vogue and Sunday Times
  
  
• Her artistic family included Serge Gainsbourg and his daughter Charlotte…

Teenager 'stabbed his grandmother to death and seriously injured his grandfather as they lay in bed after taking legal high'

• Hull Crown Court heard Lewis Dale, 17, killed Irene dale, 78, with knife
• He also seriously injured her husband Allan, 80, while he slept, it was said
• Dale was a user of the drug mephedrone - known as 'meow meow or M-Cat'

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Children of horrifying incest 'cult' with four generations of in-breeding found living deformed, filthy and mute in scenic valley

• Case in New South Wales, Australia, described as one of worst in history
• Brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts had sex with each other for decades
  
  
• Children were severely disabled with one girl, nine, unable to read or talk
  
  
• She was unable to bathe…

Twitter fury over Dave's selfie with Obama and a flirty Dane: Backlash over leaders' picture at Mandela memorial service that left Michelle VERY unamused

• Hundreds of world leaders gather in Johannesburg's FNB Stadium for Nelson Mandela's memorial service
• Barack Obama paid tribute to anti-apartheid icon, saying 'We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again'
• Shook hands with Cuba's Raul…

Madagascar village hit by fatal bubonic plague outbreak

• 10 HOURS AGODECEMBER 11, 2013 1:32PM

Monsanto deal with Novozymes aims to accelerate new crop products

500 of the worlds most notable writers slam NSA surveillance

Authors from 81 countries call on UN to create an international bill of digital rights

CBC News Posted: Dec 10, 2013 3:53 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 10, 2013 3:53 PM ET…

WTO hails 'historic' first global trade agreement

 

By Dan…

Twenty-nine convicted sex offenders are serving in armed forces: Offences include 'indecent assault and downloading child porn'

• All are on sex offenders' register, with at least 10 convicted in civilian court
• One is a category one, level two offender, described as a risk to the public
• Soldiers convicted of sexual…

Was Kenya mall massacre 'mastermind' backed by CIA cash? Disturbing claims by 'double agent who worked with terror suspect for years'

• Morten Storm was an informant for intelligence agencies for five years
• Met Abdukadir Mohamed Abdukadir, or Ikirma, in Nairobi in 2008
• At the time,…

Sweden 'spied on Russian leaders for US'

Published time: December 05, 2013 10:06 

Edited time: December 06, 2013 04:37

Swedish signals intelligence agency FRA spied on Russian leaders and shared the data collected with the US, local media report citing Edward Snowden leaks. Sweden’s ‘cable access’ made its position ‘unique’ in the eyes of the NSA.

The NSA…

Family of 11 'pedophiles' arrested in case of missing Alabama teen Brittney Wood, 19, including her MOTHER and BROTHER on rape charges

• Mother-of-one Brittney Wood hasn't been seen since May 2012
• She disappeared after visiting uncle, Donald Holland, who killed himself
• Police suspect that she may have wanted to confront Holland about abuse

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Baby boy kicked and stamped on, then 'thrown to his death from a balcony' by girl aged TEN after his mother accidentally left him behind in a lift

• The boy, who is thought to be just under two, was in a lift with his mother
  
  
• The murder took place in Chongqing, southwest China
• CCTV footage caught the 10-year-old girl abusing the child in the lift

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Brazilian mother forced to flee to her country's embassy in Norway after officials try to take her daughter, 3, into care 'for not eating like a Norwegian'

• Vitoria Alves Jesumary, 37, is hiding at the Brazilian Embassy in Oslo
• Social services want her three-year-old daughter taken into care
• Jesumary claims it is because she 'is not eating like a…

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  Terrified people rescued from storm floods as 140mph winds leave two dead and 120,000 without power: Worst yet to come with 10pm tidal surge expected to swamp east coast

  • More than 240 Environment Agency flood alerts in place in England and Wales, with most in East Anglia
    
    
  • Gusts of 140mph in parts of…

EU Commission fines banks $2.3 billion for benchmark rigging

BY FOO YUN CHEE

BRUSSELS Wed Dec 4, 2013 12:34pm EST

(Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators vowed to keep…