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Police warn against involvement in conflict after arrests
Police have warned people that they could face prosecution if they travel to fight in conflicts in warzones after four people were arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences.
Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Mole, Head of the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, reassured the public that the arrests were not linked to any imminent threats to the UK, adding:
First and foremost I should reassure everyone that none of today’s activity is linked in any way to any imminent threats in Greater Manchester or the UK.
The operation has been running since autumn 2013 since we first became aware of a number of individuals travelling from the North West to the battlefields of Syria.
We look at every case on its own merits, but travelling to a warzone in order to be involved in conflict, or supporting those who do so, could make you potentially liable to prosecution for terrorism offences.
Also, as well as posing a risk to themselves, there is the very real threat that they could pose a danger to our own communities when they return to the UK.
Oscar Pistorius' friend giving evidence in murder trial
Oscar Pistorius' friend Darren Fresco is giving evidence in the Olympic and Paralympic athlete's murder trial.
ITV News Africa Correspondent Rohit Kachroo has tweeted from the Pretoria courtroom:
Fresco's evidence won't be televised. He's being told that he's obliged to answer questions, even if the answers incriminate him
Fresco recounting 'sunroof incident'. Oscar Pistorius listens
Fresco says Pistorius was "furious" that someone else - a police officer - had touched his gun
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Woman, 21, among Syria terror arrests
Four people have been arrested by police on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism in Syria
Two men aged 29 and 18 both from Levenshulme, and a 21-year-old woman from Trafford are in custody, Greater Manchester Police said.
A 29-year-old man from Oxford has been arrested by the South East Counter Terrorism Unit on suspicion of the same offence.
Police said a number of properties were now being searched as part of the investigation.
Four people held in counter-terrorism arrests
Three men and one woman have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in travelling to or supporting fighting in war-zones, Greater Manchester Police said today.
Yanukovich: New election 'illegitimate and illegal'
Ukraine's ousted leader Yanukovich said the new presidential election in Ukraine, due to take place on May 25, is "absolutely illegitimate and illegal"
In a statement in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, Yanukovich remained unswayed in his argument that "extremists" had taken power in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.
Co-op boss: Someone is determined to undermine me
Co-operative chief executive Euan Sutherland said "an individual, or individuals" were determined to "undermine" him after details of his pay packet were leaked to the press.
On Sunday, he wrote on Facebook: "I'm very sorry to have to report that we have had yet another leak to the media.
"This time it is to the Observer newspaper and concerns levels of annual Executive remuneration, including my salary, and also proposed changes to the Group Executive team. It appears that, once again, the leak has come from our Group Boardroom.
"We seem to have an individual, or individuals, determined to undermine me personally, my team and the rest of the Group Board regardless of the uncertainty and disruption this causes to our 90,000 colleagues and our supportive members.
"Despite this, I am determined that we will see through the vital transformation of our business."
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Yanukovich says he remains Ukraine's president
Viktor Yanukovich, the ousted president of Ukraine has been holding a press conference from Russia.
He said he remains Ukraine's President and Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces, and is sure his soldiers would not obey criminal orders.
He said the Crimea is breaking away from Ukraine, and blamed his political opponents for the split.
Former Iranian spy claims Lockerbie was work of Iran
Iranian defector Abolghassem Mesbahi, a former intelligence agent has claimed in a controversial new documentary that the Lockerbie bombing was ordered by Iran and carried by out a Syrian based terror group.
Mesbahi, a defector to Germany, told investigative journalists from Al Jazeera that the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, ordered the bombing "to copy exactly what happened to the Iranian airbus"
The new claims, with supporting documents, will be broadcast tonight in a documentary called Lockerbie: What Really Happened? and will name key players said to be involved in the planning and implementation of the terror attack that killed 290 people in 1988.
'Have Hope' messages appear as search for jet widens
Messages reading "Have Hope" have appeared in China and Malaysia as the search for flight MH370 enters its fourth day.
Students in Zhejiang province, China lit candles and held placards saying "Pray for life", while well-wishers signed a board at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.
Efforts to find the locate the plane, carrying 239 people, have so far failed and authorities have widened the search area.
Read: Relatives' anguish as mystery of missing jet continues
Chaos at Co-op as chief executive offers to resign
Euan Sutherland thinks the Co-op group is "ungovernable" and I understand he offered his resignation last night at an emergency meeting.
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