What looks like a sprawling city has emerged from the desert dust in northern Jordan.

Lavish hospitality laid on for foreign dignitaries and businessman during the London Olympics has helped British companies secure contracts and agreements abroad worth £1.5bn in areas including oil drilling in Brazil and nuclear power in Jordan.

The country has seen a rise in tourism from the Gulf states as they have shied away from Syria and volatile Lebanon

On the streets of Amman where Britain’s Public Enemy No 1 grew up, Fernande van Tets discovers a very different view of him

Justice Secretary calls for 'wholesale changes' to Human Rights law in Britain

"My son is innocent and I hope the court will set him free," said Abu Qatada's 86-year old father, standing outside the State Security Courthouse in the outskirts of Amman, where the firebrand preacher appeared on Sunday, charged with conspiring to carry out terrorist attack in Jordan in 1999 and 2000.

Agreement aims to allay fears that evidence extracted through torture will be used against the terror suspect

Members also call for Hezbollah and other foreign fighters to pull out

Members also call for Hezbollah and other foreign fighters to pull out

The charity have teamed up with photographer Moises Samen to capture children and their families crossing boarders into neighbouring countries as part of today's World Refugee Day

The treaty is expected to be ratified by Friday, removing the last hurdle in extraditing extremist cleric Abu Qatada

The West may be flip-flopping over whether or not to send lethal arms to the Syria rebels, but that has not stopped a 12-day military exercise in Jordan, in which thousands of troops from a variety of countries are preparing for the possibility of fighting in Syria. The war games come to an end tomorrow.

The award-winning American war correspondent Michael Hastings, 33, died in a car crash in Los Angeles. Described as a "fearless journalist", the news of his death was announced by his employer Buzzfeed.

Agreement guarantees that torture evidence would not be used against 52-year-old