A man was killed and two others were taken to hospital with gunshot wounds today following a "serious incident" understood to involve a serving British soldier.

One of the men behind a barbaric terror attack on the streets of London today was filmed wielding a bloodied meat cleaver and saying, "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you."

A major police operation was launched today after two suspected terrorists murdered a man in the street in broad daylight.

The woman at the centre of a murder case that riveted many Americans with its details of sex and violence made a plea for life in prison today instead of execution, saying she can contribute to society if allowed to live.

Dale Cregan today admitted the murders of a father and son.

The Woolwich killers are of Nigerian background, sources have confirmed, but it is understood they are most likely to be British citizens converted to a radical form of Islam.

Two suspected terrorists have "brutally murdered" a man on a London street in broad daylight prompting a major emergency response from the British Government.

A woman who risked her life to confront an armed man suspected of slaughtering a British soldier in broad daylight has described how she tried to calm him moments after the barbaric attack.