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Market Street in Omagh after the bombing in 1998, for which no one has been convicted

Revealed: Warning signs that could have stopped the Omagh bombing

Emails from FBI agent said to show that services had detailed picture of Real IRA before attack

Ms Beard, a professor of classics at University of Cambridge, said she had contacted police after receiving a message last night claiming a bomb had been left outside her home.

Television classicist Mary Beard sent bomb threat by 'trolls' just hours after apology by Twitter boss

Television classicist Mary Beard has received a bomb threat on Twitter just hours after the UK Twitter boss personally apologised to her and other women who had been sent threats on the site.

Panamanian workers stand on top of sacks of sugar inside a container aboard a North Korean-flagged ship at the Manzanillo International container terminal on the coast of Colon City, Panama

Live ammunition found on North Korean ship held in Panama

Sniffer dogs found ammunition for grenade launchers and other munitions aboard the Chong Chon Gang

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad chats with military personnel during his visit to a military site in the town of Daraya, southwest of Damascus

Syrian conflict: Only reversals on the battlefield will bring opposition to negotiating table

While President Assad, buoyed by a recent win in Homs, has praised his soldier's bravery in the face of 'the fiercest barbaric war in modern history'

Bell in 2004: his playing echoed Jelly Roll Morton

Henri Alleg: Journalist who fought for Algerian independence

Although forever identified with Algeria and its former colonial ruler France, Henri Alleg was originally a Londoner, his Russian Jewish grandparents having fled the poverty and pogroms of the 19th century to install themselves in the East End.

Oxford student latest to receive Twitter bomb threat

An Oxford University student is among the female journalists to receive a bomb threat on the social networking site

Screengrab from the Twitter feed of Independent columnist Grace Dent

Police investigate Twitter bomb threats against female journalists including The Independent's Grace Dent and The Guardian's Hadley Freeman

Columnists among those told 'a bomb has been placed outside your home' as police advise them to think about moving while they investigate 

Squadron Leader Peter Tunstall, the cooler king of Colditz who failed to get the recognition he deserved

His death has raised questions about why he was never honoured

President Moncef Marzouki stands in front of coffin, draped in the Tunisian flag, of the one of the eight soldiers who died in an ambush by an armed group in Mount Chaambi

Tunisia turmoil: President calls for national unity after eight soldiers ambushed and killed

Powerful union has called for the dissolution of the ruling coalition

Iraqis remove the stones of a wall destroyed in a car bombing outside Ahl al-Bayya' mosque on 29 July 2013 in south-eastern Baghdad

Iraq car bombs: At least 60 dead as rush-hour attacks hit Baghdad and nearby cities

Scores more wounded as surge of attacks revive fears of return to widespread sectarian bloodshed

Car bomb detonated and one shot dead ahead of funeral for murdered MP in Tunisia

A man was killed and a car bomb detonated in the Tunisian capital of Tunis on Saturday during violent protests ahead of the funeral of an assassinated politician.

Pakistan bomb attack: Parachinar death toll reaches 57

The twin bomb attack which hit a market in a Shi'ite-dominated region of northwest Pakistan killed 57 people, officials said.

The News Matrix: Saturday 27 July 2013

Kent town surprised to host 'massacre'

A rebel uses a home-made slingshot to fire a bomb

Homemade grenades and catapults: Introducing the DIY weapons of the Free Syrian Army

Distribution remains haphazard among the various battalions and  some of them have to rely on a cottage industry to provide themselves with arms

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