English Defence League protest after Woolwich attack – video

Protesters from the far-right English Defence League have clashed with police in Woolwich where a man was stabbed to death by assailants apparently acting on extreme Islamist viewsJason N Parkinson [continue]

Anti-Muslim reprisals after Woolwich attack

English Defence League in street battles with police in Woolwich and mosques attacked in apparent acts of revengeScores of supporters of the English Defence League threw bottles at police and chanted anti-Muslim slogans in Woolwich hours after the murder of one man and the shooting of his two suspected assailants.About 100 men, including some wearing balaclavas printed with "EDL", engaged in running battles with police for less than an hour.A police commander said officers cited section 60 of... [continue]

Woolwich killing: horror on John Wilson Street

Eyewitnesses in shock as two men hack soldier to death in full public view, then ask for passersby to take photographs of themA meat cleaver is clasped in his blood-smeared left hand; the other – also stained red with human blood – waves manically as he shouts at the camera, ranting his justification for the atrocity on the streets of south-east London.At about the same time, in the nearby Musgrave primary school, the headteacher David Dixon ordered a lockdown after seeing the body of a man... [continue]

Woolwich attack: meat cleaver, knife and jihadist claims filmed on mobile

• British soldier dead in suspected terror attack in London• Knife attack near barracks 'an eye for an eye', says suspect • Killing in street is 'absolutely sickening' says prime ministerA man suspected of staging a terrorist attack that left a British soldier dead near a military barracks in London, was caught on camera clutching a meat cleaver and knife in hands apparently covered in the blood of his victim, as he justified the violence as part of a jihadist-inspired fight against... [continue]

Woolwich attack: first-person account

Ingrid Loyau-Kennett spoke to the two men who have since been arrested over the attack. She told Conal Urqhart her story"I was just on my way home after a trip to France. I was visiting my children in Plumstead and I had taken a 53 bus to get to Parliament Square where I was going to meet my children and walk to Victoria coach station before getting the coach to Helston in Cornwall."I was sitting on the lower deck and the bus stopped. I could clearly see a body in the road and a crashed car. I... [continue]

PSG lure Wayne Rooney with promise to match Manchester United wages

• French champions want to pair Rooney with Zlatan Ibrahimovic• Forward would need to be convinced of Ligue 1's qualityParis Saint-Germain have informed Wayne Rooney's representatives that they would be willing to match his current wages as they seek to convince the unsettled England striker to leave Manchester United for Parc des Princes.Rooney's future at Old Trafford has been in serious doubt since Sir Alex Ferguson, speaking immediately after his final home game in charge, suggested the... [continue]

New light shed on US rendition programme

Online project uncovers details of way in which CIA carried out kidnaps and secret detentions following September 11 attacks• The Rendition Project interactive • CIA rendition flights explainedA groundbreaking research project has mapped the US government's global kidnap and secret detention programme, shedding unprecedented light on one of the most controversial secret operations of recent years.The interactive online project – by two British universities and a legal charity – has... [continue]

Woolwich attack: lone wolf and jihadist theories will occupy security forces

Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre will convene, in wake of killing and al-Qaida martyrdom video rhetoric heard on London streetCounter-terrorism officers and security officials will doubtless fear that Woolwich fits into the category of crime that they can do little to thwart; random, lone-wolf, unsophisticated attacks, conducted by people who are not on the radar of the police or MI5.The spectrum in which investigators will be working now is broad, and the characters within it unstable and... [continue]

Ministers ordered bugging of King Edward VIII's phones, records reveal

Previously secret note from Home Office refers to order to intercept communications at height of 1936 abdication crisisMinisters ordered the bugging of Edward VIII's telephones in Buckingham Palace and in his Windsor retreat at the height of the 1936 abdication crisis, hitherto secret papers reveal.The extraordinary move, reflecting a growing and deep distrust between the king and his ministers, is disclosed in a unique cache of intelligence files hidden until now in a basement at the Cabinet... [continue]

When Winston Churchill met Joseph Stalin: suckling pigs and savage brews

Newly declassified letter from Foreign Office official describes wartime meeting between two national leaders in MoscowA colourful description of how Winston Churchill spent a night drinking with Joseph Stalin in Moscow during a wartime meeting is contained in a letter from Sir Alexander Cadogan, a top official at the Foreign Office, contained in a highly classified document released on Thursday.He described how at mealtimes between the meetings in August 1942, Churchill "engaged the company in... [continue]