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MUMBAI, India -- Deepak Kuntawala felt it was only a matter of time before the four gunmen roaming the Taj Mahal hotel would find him and more than 100 others [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey MAOIST REBELS in Nepal have kidnapped two British Army officials from a remote village where they were recruiting for the Gurkhas. The men, the first foreigners kidnapped [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey A BLIND man has won a ground-breaking legal ruling after he was barred from taking his guide dog into a Chinese restaurant. Leigh Hutchings, 44, was stopped [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey in South Elkington THEY HAD last gathered at All Saints Church just over 13 months ago for an occasion full of joy and cheer. It was for [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey HAIRY DAN, Thrill a Day Jill and Musso the Wop have come and gone but The Beano is still going strong. The comic, with its cheeky characters, [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey A SMALL tin can hidden in a ditch at a Roman temple as an offering to the gods was opened for the first time in nearly 2,000 [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey IF ANYBODY claims to remember Bob Hope from the time he lived in Eltham, then they are almost certainly lying. The entertainer left aged four with his [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey INSIDE AN anonymous, dirty warehouse at Tilbury Docks marked '38 shed' lie tons of the remnants of the dwindling Indonesian rainforest. Row after row of pallets of [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey WHEN ARIADNE, abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos, caught the eye of Bacchus, he elevated her to the stars and turned her into a constellation. Now [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey TWO BRITONS held at Guantanamo Bay face a possible death penalty after being named among the first group of prisoners likely to be tried before secretive US [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey THE ABILITY of Loyd Grossman's face to sell a line of pasta sauces has made him the most successful television celebrity brand in Britain, a report says. [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey THE BBC came out fighting yesterday after Alastair Campbell's demand for an apology aggravated its long-running dispute with the Government over coverage of Iraq. Mr Campbell, Tony [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey MORE THAN 150 years after Anna, 7th Duchess of Bedford, invented afternoon tea in the garden with some dainty sandwiches, she has been proved scientifically right: the [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey DAVID BECKHAM becomes the most high-profile and widely anticipated of public figures to receive an honour today, heading the list of sporting beneficiaries with an OBE. Alec [...]

Byline: Paul Peachey HELEN MIRREN, the actress best known for her role in Prime Suspect, today joins the exalted list of actresses that includes Judi Dench and Maggie Smith to [...]

FOR CENTURIES, the immigrants that have made Brick Lane their home have left for more salubrious areas as soon as their burgeoning businesses allowed. Yesterday, the newest arrivals, from Bangladesh, [...]

THE MAYOR of London, Ken Livingstone, claimed yesterday that the capital's congestion charge had been vindicated, after figures showed traffic had been cut 16 per cent in the first three [...]

ANTI-MUGABE protesters threatened 'chaos and mayhem' at the Test match between England and Zimbabwe which starts tomorrow after the MCC refused to allow a protest inside Lord's Cricket Ground. The [...]

THE MCC will consider today a demand from anti-Mugabe campaigners to permit a 'protest zone' at this week's Test match between England and Zimbabwe or face a pitch invasion. Protesters [...]

A SERIES of bomb attacks on Western targets in Saudi Arabia killed a number of people and injured at least 50 last night, hours before Colin Powell, the US Secretary [...]

A KILLER who sent anthrax to his victims through the US postal system may have protected himself by packing envelopes in an airtight chamber partly submerged in a pond, according [...]

KEVIN FULTON Kevin Fulton, a double agent who infiltrated the Provisional IRA, claimed to have warned of an imminent bomb attack three days before the Real IRA atrocity at Omagh. [...]

THE JORDANIAN businessman named as George Galloway's man in Iraq made money from a web of deals under the UN's oil-for-food programme set up to help the Iraqi people. Critics [...]

THE MARIAM Appeal was established in a blaze of publicity to pay to bring a girl suffering from leukaemia to Britain for the treatment she was unable to receive in [...]

THE JORDANIAN businessman named as George Galloway's man in Baghdad is a well-known political activist fiercely opposed to the US-led invasion of Iraq. Fawaz Abdullah Zureikat, who has denied conducting [...]

THE JORDANIAN businessman named as George Galloway's man in Baghdad is a well-known political activist fiercely opposed to the US-led war with Iraq. Fawaz Abdullah Zureikat, who has denied conducting [...]

AN AWARD-WINNING BBC cameraman was killed in northern Iraq yesterday when he stood on a landmine as he climbed out of his car, the corporation confirmed last night. Kaveh Golestan, [...]

A ROYAL Marine was killed and several others injured yesterday when Allied boats were ambushed as they tried to clear waterways in southern Iraq of pockets of Iraqi resistance. The [...]

THE REAL WAR pauses occasionally. The information war goes on 24 hours a day. Every opportunity, every scrap of information, has been deployed to reassure British and American public opinion [...]

SPANISH POLICE searching for a British couple who went missing while looking for a holiday home in Benidorm have found two bodies. Four people have been arrested over the disappearance [...]

AS EVERY primary school pupil and salad dressing maker will attest, oil and water do not mix. Until today, that is. One of science's incontrovertible truths, taught in standard chemistry [...]

TROOPS AND armoured vehicles sent to Heathrow airport last week amid fears of a terrorist attack to coincide with the Muslim festival of Eid have been withdrawn, Scotland Yard said [...]

A VENEZUELAN man arrested at Gatwick Airport for allegedly carrying a hand grenade in his luggage was remanded in custody when he appeared in court yesterday. Hasil Mohammed Rahaham-Alan was [...]

TROOPS AND armoured vehicles sent to Heathrow airport last week amid fears of a terrorist attack to coincide with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha have been withdrawn, Scotland Yard [...]

ARMOURED VEHICLES and hundreds of troops were drafted in to protect Heathrow airport yesterday after security services received intelligence of a terrorist threat. An additional 1,000 police officers, many of [...]