The father of a pilot in the Jordanian Air Force, being held by IS is demanding the Jordan government secures his release. Safi Al-Kaseasbah told ITV News: "I am demanding the Jordanian government, from the top to the bottom, to secure my son's freedom!"
Gary Glitter has told a court some of the claims made against him could have a financial motivation.
In cross examination, prosecutor John Price QC asked Glitter about claims made by one woman that when she was just 12 he plied her with champagne backstage before inviting her to his hotel and having sex with her.
Glitter said it was very hard for him to believe that either the girl or her mother had been to his dressing room.
Mr Price asked: "Do you know of any reason why (she) should falsely accuse you of the things she says you did to her on those occasions?"
Glitter replied: "I don't know her so I don't know, but it is not the first time that people have made allegations about me and received money."
Those responsible for the deadly attack on an Israeli military convoy near southern Lebanon "will pay the full price", the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.
Mr Netanyahu was speaking ahead of consultations with Israeli security chiefs on further military response to the Hezbollah assault.
The boss of a slaughterhouse has become the first person to face jail over the horsemeat scandal after he admitted failing to abide by EU meat rules.
Peter Boddy, 65, admitted one count of failing to abide by EU meat traceability regulations concerning more than 17 horse carcasses.
The charge carries a maximum sentence of two years' imprisonment.
He admitted selling 50 horses for meat but failing to keep proper records to show who bought them.
There is no suggestion that buyers did not know they were purchasing horsemeat.
Prosecutors said they did not know where the meat might have ended up.
The slaughterhouse's 54-year-old manager David Moss, admitted forging an invoice concerning the number of horses sold in a transaction on February 12 2013.
But he denied failing to comply with food traceability requirements for more than 17 horse carcasses between July 2012 and February 2013, and the charge was left to lie on file, as well as a charge of failing to comply with EU meat traceability regulations.
The pair will be sentenced on March 23 at Southwark Crown Court.
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Greece's new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced a series of measures which signalled his intent to stick to the anti-austerity pledges that saw the party win last week's election.
He has announced plans to:
The measures could set the country on course for a clash with the rest of Europe, especially Germany, which has said it will not renegotiate the aid package needed to help the country pay its debts. But Tsipras remains defiant.
Greek bank stocks have fallen by more than 22% today in a third day of turmoil following Tsipras' election success.
The United Nations peacekeeper killed in southern Lebanon today was Spanish, Associated Press has reported.
Zeina Karam, AP's Beruit Bureau Chief says that the Israeli ambassador has called Spain's foreign minister today offering condolences for the death of the UN peacekeeper.
The peacekeeper, serving with a UN monitoring force in southern Lebanon, was killed as Israel responded with air strikes and artillery fire, a UN spokesman and Spanish officials said.
