Three men are arrested in south-east London in connection with the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby near Woolwich barracks on Wednesday.

A top level taskforce is to be set up in the wake of the killing of a soldier in Woolwich to "look again" at the government's strategy for dealing with radicalisation and extremism.

Drummer Lee Rigby of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers was identified Friday by the Ministry of Defence as the victim in the horrific machete attack in the Woolwich neighborhood of London. Mr. Rigby, 25, joined the British army in 2006, and was stationed in London on a recruiting stint, ...

Audiophile Pete Hutchison has gone to extraordinary lengths to reissue golden era classical recordings in their purest form. He talks to Killian Fox about the price of perfection, the 'digital con', and the sound of a truly analogue recordingFour years ago, Pete Hutchison realised that his record-collecting habit was getting out of control. From a young age he had been ...

Kerry makes 1st official sub-Saharan Africa trip Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:49 pm, Saturday, May 25, 2013 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as ...

World News of the day From Across the Globe / At least seven Filipino marines and five militants were killed in a clash Saturday as the military began an offensive against al Qaeda-linked gunmen who have been blamed for recent kidnappings and trying to sabotage a road project in the southern Philippines. Authorities in Ghazni province say explosives transported by ...

A female suicide bomber blew herself up in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, injuring at least 18, including two children and five police officers, authorities said. The attacker was later identified as a widow of two Islamic radicals killed by security forces.

THE MV City of Xiamen, a container ship flagged in Antigua and Barbuda, was about 160km (100 miles) off the Nigerian coast in the evening of April 25th when 14 pirates, armed to the teeth, boarded her and broke into the ship’s safe room. They made off with an undisclosed sum of cash and five crew members, who were freed ...

Even more shocking than the barbarity of the terrorist attacks in London and Boston is the denial by authorities on both sides of the Atlantic about their common religious motive. British Muslims offered the same explanation as American Muslims for slaughtering their fellow citizens — Islamic holy war — yet the political...

LONDON (Reuters) - British counter-terrorism police on Saturday arrested three people suspected of involvement in the killing of a soldier hacked to death in a London street by two men shouting Islamist slogans.

Authorities are investigating whether the terrorists who allegedly killed a serving British soldier in a London street on Wednesday had connections to Nigeria. WSJ’s Cassell Bryan-Low reports on the attack that U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has described as “sickening.”