Two Southwest Airlines flights with ties to Phoenix and Orange County's John Wayne Airport were grounded last night following a threatening phone call, authorities said.

A senior al-Qai'da leader has been killed in an airstrike by a US drone.

An airstrike carried out by a CIA drone killed a top al-Qa'ida leader yesterday.

The terrorist mastermind of 9/11 is replaced by a fugitive teacher on the FBI's list of public enemies

He claims that half of all Catholic priests are gay – and has himself been married to his husband for 14 years. He believes celibacy is to blame for many of the Church's problems – and that the Vatican must take responsibility for the paedophilia in its midst. Is it any wonder so many people want rid of Father Bernard Lynch?

News Corporation cannot afford to put a foot wrong. However uncomfortable the fallout from the phone-hacking scandal has been for Rupert Murdoch in the UK, wider questions about the way News Corp has been governed now hold the potential to do serious damage to the company's global brand.

Vigilante gunman remains free nearly one month after killing in Florida amid mounting accusations of racism

US bureau ready to step in if Met inquiry into alleged wrongdoing at Murdoch papers falters

Hackers from a group related to Anonymous launched a revenge attack against a security firm they claimed helped police arrest “hacktivists” today, leaving a message criticising “Sabu”, the former head of LulzSec who turned FBI informant, betraying his colleagues.

He was one of the world's foremost hackers...until he betrayed his friends to the FBI. Kevin Rawlinson recounts his personal interactions with Sabu.

Fed up with hearing Wall Street bankers telling him Gordon Gekko was an inspiration to them, Michael Douglas, pictured in character, has teamed up with the FBI to launch a campaign against insider trading and investment fraud.

A terror suspect was arrested in Washington DC yesterday as he prepared to launch what he thought would be a lethal suicide attack on the US Congress.

The lawyer who was instrumental in exposing the full scale of phone hacking inside News International is in the "advanced stages" of bringing his first case against Rupert Murdoch's company in the US, i has learnt.

Mogul faces stark new threat as he flies to London following arrests of five Sun journalists