Britain's domestic spy agency, MI5 and police were able to stop Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain before they could launch a deadly attack.The terror plot involved targeting British reserve troops using a toy-car packed with explosives.Iqbal and Ahmed were given extended sentences of 16 years and 3 months, which means they will be in jail for more than 11

A girl who survived an alleged satanic ritual could not bath for months because of her injuries, the South Gauteng High Court sitting in the Palm Ridge Magistrate's Court heard on Thursday.The apparent satanic ritual happened in 2011 on a hill, south of Johannesburg, South Africa.The girl who was 14 at the time, survived. She is now 16.Her mother testified she had to undergo hospital treatment and

A woman chopped off her husband's penis and threw it in the garbage disposal, a court heard yesterday.Catherine Kieu, 50, is accused of drugging her estranged husband's tofu with sleeping pills and tying him to a bed before the attack.Audio of the July 11, 2011, incident was captured by a voice-activated recorder Kieu had hidden in the bedroom, according to the deputy district attorney.The prosec

Pakistan's former ruler Pervez Musharraf made a dramatic escape from a courtroom to avoid arrest after his bail was revoked.The strongman's bodyguards bundled him out of the building and into a black pick-up truck before security could detain him.He is now on the run from justice.Footage broadcast on local television showed the vehicle speeding off as one of his minders clung on to the side of th

A 16-year-old girl in South Africa has been left depressed and suicidal after she was gang raped and infected with HIV.Two years ago a group of men forced their way into the house where she was living and took turns to rape her.She survived with minor injuries but her life has fallen apart.She has tried to commit suicide seven times.Once she threw herself in front of a speeding and another time sh

Moses Mazibuko says he trusted his son to keep his pension money safe for him.Now the 63-year-old pensioner says he is penniless and has no food in the house.The premiums for his insurance policies and burial society are no longer being paid.Moses, of Spruitview, east of Johannesburg retired last year as a truck driver with Toyota Forklift. He said he asked his only son, Zizi Mazibuko (30), to kee

Police in South Africa are investigating a possible ninth victim in a series of serial murders of gay men in Gauteng province.Dr Carl Mischke, 47, a professor at the University of Johannesburg, was found face down on his bed in a pool of blood on Monday morning, after having allegedly invited in his killer or killers. His naked body was covered by a duvet, hiding the multiple stab wounds that led

A 42-year-old Florida woman was arrested on Monday for allegedly sleeping with 13- and 17-year-olds while other teenagers watched, police said.Jeanine Shimandle abused the two underage boys on March 11 while she was house-sitting in Sarasota, US, according to the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office. Two female teens and another male teenager listened to and, at times, watched the acts take place, the

A massive explosion at a fertiliser plant near Waco, Texas, US, on Wednesday night injured dozens of people and sent flames shooting into the night sky, leaving the factory a smoldering ruin.The blast damaged buildings for blocks in every direction.The explosion at West Fertiliser in West, a community about 20 miles north of Waco, happened shortly before 8 p.m. and could be heard as far away as Wa

A six-year-old boy is in trouble in the US after he took the family car for a 6am drive - because he wanted a Chinese takeaway.The unnamed youngster, who could hardly see over the dash board, was stopped by police three miles from his home near Detroit, Michigan.He told officers he wanted more of the food he'd eaten the previous night - but when he got to the restaurant he found it was shut.Drivin

A Chinese man inadvertently created a frozen waterfall outside a block of flats when he left his tap on all winter.Wen Hsu, 58, was the last remaining resident of the building, scheduled for demolition to make way for a new shopping centre in Jilin city, Jilin Province.As winter approached, Hsu was worried the uninsulated water pipes running up through the unused and unheated flats below him would

An English teacher in the Albany school district, US, asked 10th grade students to write an assignment on why the Jews should be blamed for the issues of Nazi Germany.Earlier reported by the Times Union, the assignment stated, "You must argue that Jews are evil, and use solid rationale from government propaganda to convince me of your loyalty to the Third Reich!"According to ABC News, the superin

Being handsome is normally seen as a positive but for a number of men attending a cultural festival, it was the reason given to them for being thrown out.The delegates were reportedly ordered to leave an event in Saudi Arabia and then thrown out of the country because authorities thought their looks may corrupt young women.Arabic newspaper Elaph said: 'A festival official said the three Emiratis w

Michael Akorful Onyeagolo who claimed to be a medical practitioner with a hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, was yesterday arrested for impersonation.Onyeagolo 28, aka Dr. Hilary Abiwu, confessed that he was not a medical doctor.He said he stole the certificates from a doctor in Ghana.Michael was caught when he mismanaged a patient who was brought to the hospital.He said, "I was in school in Ukraine but

Nigerian police arrested a 19-year-old man, Abraham Bepeh, for allegedly killing his friend, Richard Mashok, in a disagreement over a girl.Bepeh claimed that Mashok was a cultist who attempted to eliminate him over a girl, Miss Anna Ushie, a student of Immaculate Secondary School in Ohong.It was learnt that Bepeh was a JSS3 dropout, while the deceased, who had a certificate in education, was a tea