LONDON: Heathrow airport, Europe’s busiest, was closed on Friday after a British Airways plane made an emergency landing. All 75 passengers and crew were safely evacuated from the plane, which landed on the airport’s northern runway, a Heathrow spokeswoman said.

LONDON: Scotland Yard on Thursday arrested two more people, including a woman, in connection with the murder of a soldier on a busy London street by two suspected Islamist extremists, as Prime Minister David Cameron vowed the country would remain resolute in its opposition to terrorism. A man and a woman, both 29, were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in relation

LONDON: One of the terrorists caught on camera with bloodied hands holding a meat cleaver he had used to hack a British Army soldier to death on the streets of London on Wednesday has been named as Michael Adebolajo. He has a distinct London accent and is believed to be a British citizen of Nigerian descent who, along with the second suspect shot by police after Wednesday's attack in Woolwich, south-east London

TOKYO: Nissan Motor Co Ltd will recall about 841,000 vehicles worldwide including the Micra compact car, also known as the March, as a result of a steering wheel glitch, Japan's No.2 automaker said on Thursday. Nissan is recalling certain models of the Micra compact car produced in Britain and Japan between 2002 and 2006, as well as the Cube, produced in Japan around the same period.

LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday the brutal murder of a soldier by two suspected Islamists on a London street was an attack on Britain and a betrayal of Islam. "This was not just an attack on Britain and on the British way of life. It was also a betrayal of Islam and of the Muslim communities who give so much to our country," he said in a statement outside his Downing Street office.

WASHINGTON: Sathwik Karnik, an Indian-origin boy from Massachusetts has won this year's National Geographic Bee contest after gruelling rounds testing his geographic knowledge about lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia and port cities in England.

ORLANDO/WASHINGTON: An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man who turned violent while being questioned about the Boston Marathon bombings early on Wednesday, the bureau said. A friend of the dead man told the Orlando Sentinel and Orlando television stations that he was 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando, a Chechen who had previously lived in Boston.

LONDON: In a suspected terror attack, a soldier in London on Wednesday was beheaded in broad daylight with a machete. According to reports, the attack took place near Woolwich Street near a London army barracks. The two suspects shot by the police after they killed the soldier are admitted in hospital and are said to be in critical condition. 10, Downing Street has called a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency

LONDON: Well-known Kannada author UR Ananthamurthy, the only Indian to be shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2013, on Wednesday lost the prestigious award to American writer Lydia Davis. The New York based writer-translator Davis bagged the 60,000 pound prize for her "innovative and influential" writing, which includes works such as "The End of the Story" and "Varieties of Disturbance". "Lydia Davis' writings fling their lithe arms wide to embrace many a kind

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has been discharged from the hospital roughly two weeks after he sustained serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift at a campaign event.

WASHINGTON: Far-reaching legislation to grant a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote on Tuesday night after supporters sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses.

LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari today blamed national and international forces for his Pakistan Peoples Party defeat in the May 11 polls while the party's losing candidates held former premiers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf responsible for the debacle.

LOS ANGELES: Ray Manzarek, a founding member and keyboardist of 1960s rock group The Doors, died on Monday at a medical clinic in Germany at age 74 following a battle with cancer, the group's manager Tom Vitorino said.

MOORE, OKLAHOMA: A tornado of rare power roared through an Oklahoma City suburb, killing at least 91, flattening neighbourhoods with winds up to 320 kph and destroying at least one school. Officials said children were among the dead.

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani court on Monday granted bail to former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf who has been under house arrest on charges of failing to provide adequate security for former prime minister Benazir Bhutto before her 2007 assassination. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup, returned to Pakistan in March after nearly four years of self-imposed exile to contest a May 11 general election, but he was disqualified from standing because of pending court cases.

BAGHDAD: A wave of car bombings across Baghdad’s Shiite neighbourhoods and in the southern city of Basra killed at least 34 people and wounded dozens on Monday, Iraqi officials said.

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Zardari has said that he should have quit his position and led the Pakistan People's Party's campaign in order to ensure a better performance in the just concluded general election.

LAHORE: Nawaz Sharif's PML-N has secured majority in Pakistan's national assembly after 18 independent candidates joined the party, allowing it to form government at the centre without striking an alliance with any other party. Several independent candidates belonging to influential political families of Punjab and Sindh provinces are among those who have joined the PML-N, which emerged the single largest party in the May 11 general election by winning 124 seats.

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.

KARACHI: Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan has held the chief of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) directly responsible for the killing of a senior leader of his party in the city. "I hold Altaf Hussain directly responsible for the murder as he had openly threatened Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf workers and leaders through public broadcasts," Imran said in a statement from his hospital bed late last night.