Terrorism

Jordanian terror suspect Abu Qatada, who was once described as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe, is denied bail because of security fears during the Olympic Games.

A 16-year-old girl has died and eight other pupils have been injured in a bomb blast outside a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi.

The ex-Liberian president faces an 80-year term in a UK prison for aiding and equipping rebels in Sierra Leone's civil war, and for his role in rape, murder, and the conscription of child soldiers.

Afghan police shoot dead two British servicemen and gunmen kill a peace negotiator in separate attacks that undermine the country's attempt to negotiate a peace deal with Taliban insurgents.

A double agent allegedly recruited by MI5 and MI6 was a British passport holder, according to American media reports.

An undercover agent who foiled an al-Qaeda plot to blow up a airliner with an underwear bomb is a British national, according to US reports.

A would-be underwear bomber foiled by American intelligence is actually a double agent, according to US reports.

Channel 4 News looks at the al-Qaeda group in the Arabian Peninsula linked to explosives found on two cargo planes, and Public Enemy No 1 for the UK intelligence services, Anwar al-Awlaki.

America foils a plot by al-Qaeda in Yemen to detonate an upgraded version of the failed 2009 "underwear bomb", according to US officials.