U.S. strikes to avert another 9/11: America deploys its awesome arsenal - including its new F-22 Raptor stealth fighter over fears Jihadis were about to launch attacks on passenger planes

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The target was an Al Qaeda-linked group, Khorasan, apparently nearing ‘the execution phase’ of a plot against airports and passenger planes in the West. The American attack on the terrorist group was separate from airstrikes on 14 Islamic State targets in Syria carried out by the US and five Arab nations. In the early hours of yesterday Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched against hideouts, training camps and a bomb-making factory used by Khorasan and Islamic State. Fighter jets included America's £87m F-22 stealth Raptor - the first time the US has used the F-22 in combat. The jets hit targets in and around IS stronghold of Raqqa, where the Western hostages were thought to have been held.

Agony of hostage's wife as he begs for his life: As U.S. blitzes ISIS, terror group taunts Briton's family with desperate recorded message sent in response to airstrikes 

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Barbara Henning released a statement calling on the terrorists to free her husband after receiving the recording. There have been no details on the nature of the audio. The 47-year-old father of two was captured by the group’s fanatics last December while delivering aid in Syria. They have threatened to behead him.

Why the old foe Iran is suddenly a crucial ally, by MICHAEL BURLEIGH 

David Cameron is now making entreaties to the enemy and planning to meet Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani at the UN General Assembly in New York this week.

Revealed: The car makers' 'tricks' to boost their MPG claims that leave drivers forking out up to £400 more every year for petrol

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Manufacturers have been accused of using a series of ‘tricks’ to boost the miles per gallon (claims) on vehicles. European consumer body BEUC carried out independent tests to discover truth.

Rate rise will leave one in four struggling to pay their mortgage: Report finds fifth would cut back on clothing and food to pay loans

One in four homeowners said they would be in financial trouble when interest rates rise and seven per cent believed they would face 'serious difficulties' in making repayments

One in four homeowners say they will be in financial trouble when interest rates rise, according to research, and seven per cent would face 'serious difficulties'.

£1million? A quarter of children claim they could give it away! Study dispels common belief that youngsters are selfish

A quarter of ten to 15-year-olds say that, if they were handed £1million, they would give it all away (posed by model)

The study of 1,143 youngsters dispels the belief that children are selfish and become more generous as they get older, the British Educational Research Association’s annual conference will hear today.

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Eat healthily and exercise regularly? You can still get Type 2 diabetes: One in 10 diagnosed with condition found to be perfectly normal weight 

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Charity Diabetes UK, which analysed the data, said it highlights that weight is not the only risk factor. Older people are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes, as are those with a family history of the disease.

Pupils face 4½ hours of exams in new maths GCSE: Students will also face tougher rules on calculators as part of shake-up

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Questions will be more open-ended and less structured than currently, forcing candidates to ‘think laterally’ instead of relying on approaches they have learned by rote.

Ed fluffs his lines (and a kiss) as he leaves out the deficit: Leader appears to forget to deliver section that promised to 'get the deficit' down

Ed Miliband dropped any mention of Britain’s vast budget deficit, immigration and welfare from his final party conference speech before the General Election at the Labour conference in Manchester. The party leader had been expected to promise to make immigrants ‘learn English and earn their way’ and suggest that all those who can work ‘have a responsibility to do so’. However, he failed to touch on the key points and aides confirmed the speech, given without notes, had ‘changed’ as it was being delivered. After the speech, Mr Miliband was forced to brush off an embarrassing mishap after he went in to kiss wife Justine - who pulled away at the crucial moment (right). The pair laughed off the error and later had a peck on the lips in front of the waiting crowd (left).

How 'Gareth' the IT man from Kentish Town upstaged Ed Miliband's 'man of the people' act... and he voted Lib Dem

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The Labour leader littered his speech with anecdotes of meetings with ordinary people – but focused many of his stories on Gareth ‘a software engineer’ from north London.

A clunker of a speech... and even a kiss that missed: QUENTIN LETTS sees the lacklustre Labour leader struggle to impress even the faithful

It is a measure of how pea-soupy, how humdrum and adolescent Ed Miliband’s speech was in Manchester, that three of his claque stood at the side of the hall and tried to get the crowd clapping.

Bold boasts that don't stand up to scrutiny: JAMES SLACK sorts the claims from reality in Ed Miliband's speech 

Ed Miliband made a string of claims about what a Labour government could achieve, while glossing over his party’s failures when last in office. JAMES SLACK distinguishes claims from reality.

Revealed: How Gordon Brown gave Chuka Umunna the 'hairdryer treatment' after he criticised former PM's record on economy

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EXCLUSIVE: Mr Brown attacked the shadow business secretary for an interview he gave criticising the former Labour leader's failure to confront Britain's ballooning deficit.

Miliband vows to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote following last week's Scottish referendum

The Labour leader said it was 'time to hear the voice of young people in our politics'. It comes after 16 and 17-year-olds took part in last week's historic Scottish independence referendum.

'He should hang his head in shame': Alex Salmond attacks Cameron after he says the Queen 'purred down the line when I told her Scotland had voted No'

Mr Cameron's indiscreet remarks were picked up as he went on a walkabout with former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, when he also vowed to 'sue' pollsters who had given him stomach ulcers. His comments were blasted by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, who led the campaign for independence, as 'absolutely pathetic'.

160 British medics sign up to help the fight against Ebola 

The volunteers will spend six weeks trying to stem the worst ever outbreak of the disease, which has claimed more than 2,800 lives.

Criminal probe into Met poster girl is dropped: Firearms officer says she suffered '13 months of hell' during inquiry into her conduct

PC Howard: The 35-year-old officer says she was 'put through hell' by the Met Police

PC Carol Howard, 35, claimed the inquiry only went on for so long because she had successfully challenged racism and sexism in the Metropolitan Police.

Commuters' horror after mother and son, 10, die in apparent murder suicide after leaping from station platform into path of speeding train

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Passengers onboard the 8.41am Bedwyn to London Paddington service described feeling a ‘big impact’ as their train came to a shuddering halt in Slough, Berkshire.

Police launch probe into the Alice case blunders: Clues may have been missed on the first day as it is revealed suspect's landlord was convicted paedophile

The internal probe will examine what was done in the immediate aftermath of the 14-year-old’s disappearance – the so-called ‘golden hour’ when most cases are solved. The Metropolitan Police faces criticism over delays in asking the Latvian authorities for help in catching prime suspect Arnis Zalkalns. In another twist, it emerged yesterday that Zalkalns had been living with a convicted paedophile before he went missing.  Lionel Ferris, 68, pictured, owned the house in West London where Zalkalns lived with his girlfriend and daughter. Mr Ferris, who died behind bars a few weeks ago, is thought to have been recalled to prison for breaking his parole. 

Obese pupils 'do worse at school': Series of studies say teachers writing off overweight pupils as lazy and slowing of brain development could be to blame

Several studies have found that obese pupils do worse at school, with one reason being that they are written off by teachers

At least six studies have found that boys and girls who are dangerously overweight do worse at school than others – with girls particularly vulnerable.

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Checking work email at home can cause heart problems, anxiety and headaches warn experts

German researchers have found those who worked in the evenings and at weekends were more likely to complain of insomnia, headaches, fatigue, anxiety and stomach problems.

For sale: One woolly mammoth: Skeleton of Ice Age beast goes up for auction - and it could fetch £250,000 

The specimen, which is 18ft (5.5 metres) long, is expected to attract both museums and private collectors. It will be sold at Summer Place Auctions on 26 November in West Sussex.

Sweet solution! Father spends two years designing scoop that doesn't get stuck in ice cream that’s frozen solid 

Michigan-based Michael Chou's 'Midnight Scoop' has a curved handle for extra force. It's taken two years and 38 redesigns to come to fruition, 117 years after the scoop was first invented.

Maximus price! Roman gold coin minted during reign of Emperor Augustus sells at auction for £480,000

The coin featured Augustus with a laureate on one side and a heifer on the other; it was one of 22 ever made, of which only seven are in private collections

A unique gold coin struck 2,000 years ago during the reign of Roman Empire founder Augustus Caesar has sold for £480,000. The coin was one of 22 ever made.

Darling says defeated Salmond has 'lost the plot' over claim Scotland could declare independence without a referendum

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Alistair Darling said the SNP leader had not accepted last week’s rejection of independence. It came after Mr Salmond claimed ‘a referendum is only one of a number of routes’ to independence.

EXCLUSIVE: Winston Churchill was a 'racist and white supremacist' claims Labour candidate, to the fury of the war leader's grandson

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Sir Nicholas Soames slammed the ‘deeply insulting’ views expressed by Benjamin Whittingham, who is standing in the Wyre and Preston North seat.

PETER McKAY: The voting's over, now the bickering can REALLY begin

Groups are now furious that pledges to give Scots almost total control of their politics and finances seem likely to be broken, or delayed.

English Labour MPs in open revolt over Miliband's refusal to block Scottish MPs voting on English laws

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Ex-ministers Ben Bradshaw (pictured) and John Denham have formed a rebel bloc to challenge the party leadership's refusal to admit it is 'unfair' for Scots to vote on English matters.

House of horrors: More than 100 green-fanged spiders the size of tablespoons invade young family’s home

Dan Jackson and his three-year-old son Ruben (pictured left) are scared to go outside their Southampton home as 'tube web spiders' have filled every hole and crack in their garden and walls (right). The black creatures with shiny green fangs sew distinctive tube-shaped webs inside cracks and holes and wait by the entrance for prey to touch the strands. Now Mr Jackson, 29, is worried they may get into his house and harm his son, as their bites can cause a sharp injection-like pain.

Pilot killed after mid-air collision between two single-seat light aircraft over Bedfordshire farmland

One of the planes was sent spiralling out of control and crashed into a field in Tempsford, close to the A1, at about 8.30am today, where the pilot was pronounced dead at the scene.

Mother killed and daughter injured when runaway van ploughed into them after owner 'left it on a hill with the handbrake only partially on' 

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Mohammed Karani parked his Ford Transit Connect van on Swindon Road, Dewsbury while doing some electrical work at Madina Academy but failed to fully engage the handbrake.

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Hero pilot warned airline bosses his plane was being dangerously overloaded days before fatal crash-landing in Caribbean 

Pilot Robert Mansell had voiced concerns over flying overweight planes just days before he died when he undertook a crash landing in the Caribbean which saved the lives of his passengers.

Comedian Roy 'Chubby' Brown given £50 parking fine as he presents £5,000 donation cheque to hospital cancer unit 

Comedian Roy ‘Chubby’ Brown’s own sense of humour was pushed to its limit when he picked up a parking ticket in a hospital car park while giving a donation to its cancer unit.

DJ Dave Lee Travis faces jail after being found GUILTY of groping TV personality but CLEARED of assault on stage hand - and jury fails to reach verdict on third charge

Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis has been found guilty of groping a female TV personality, who was working on the Mrs Merton Show in January 1995. Travis, who arrived at court with his wife Marianne Griffin (right), was cleared on a second indecent assault charge and the jury was discharged after it was unable to agree a verdict on a count of sexual assault. Travis, who became a household name in the 1970s (inset), faced a retrial after jurors failed to reach verdicts on two of the charges earlier this year. He becomes the third celebrity scalp to be claimed by high-profile sex crime inquiry, Operation Yewtree. The former radio star was warned that he could face a prison sentence of up to 10 years for the crime.

Teenager jailed for taking police on 70-mile chase the wrong way up the M11 in a stolen white Transit 

Ryan Nee stole a van in Billericay, Essex and drove it to Harlow, then up the motorway before he was finally caught at Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire.

BA pilot ‘had sex with underage boys during stop-overs in India between long-haul flights’ 

Bartle Frere, 50, from Bridport, Dorset, allegedly arranged to meet the young teenagers during stop-overs in India then had sex with them in his hotel room, Bournemouth Crown Court heard.

Jilted boyfriend jailed for life for murdering his lover by slashing her throat after discovering she was married 

Gurminder Singh, 29, (pictured) attacked Amandeep Kaur Hothi after luring her to a hotel in Wolverhampton, West Midlands on March 5 last year.

Barclays worker accused of trying to kill her mother with poison in Breaking Bad-inspired plot because she forbade her to marry told friend 'I hope she dies soon, I hate her'

Kuntal Patel, 37, (pictured) is accused of trying to kill her mother Meena Patel by lacing her Diet Coke with a deadly toxin after the 60-year-old 'forbade' her from marrying her boyfriend, Niraj Kakad.

Now that's a take-away! Moment thief leans out of car window and snatches pizza from hands of a man waiting at a bus stop 

The victim was standing, holding his takeaway, at a bus stop in Manchester when the car drove past and a man grabbed the food from his hands. The thieves then posted a video of the theft online

Serial killer Dennis Nilsen brands himself a 'creative psychopath' with an 'overwhelming desire to kill' in never-before-seen letter

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Nilsen explains his ‘overwhelming desire to kill’ in the never-seen-before document, written shortly after his arrest in 1983 for killing a string of young men in London.

Anti-terror police arrest man in north west London on suspicion of making roadside bombs in Iraq 

The 37-year-old was arrested at his home in north west London by the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command and officers continue to search the property

Moment motorist swerves in front of lorry driver on busy motorway to claim £75,000 for whiplash in 'crash for cash' scam

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The video shows the Ford Galaxy veering over three lanes of traffic on the M25, in front of the HGV, causing it to slam on its brakes before crashing into the back of the car.

First day of Autumn: Britain wakes up to blanket of mist and fog but it soon disperses to make way for warm sunshine… which is set to last until early October

Parts of the UK awoke to a thick blanket of fog and poor visibility this morning, but the conditions soon deteriorated to make way for the dry and warm weather which is set to last into next week. The Met Office has predicted temperatures of up to 21C in some parts of Britain on Thursday, several degrees above the 16.5C average for this time of year. It will be a welcome relief to those who were greeted by thick fog this morning, with some parts of the country including east Devon, Hampshire, Kent and Richmond Park in London (left and top centre), experiencing extremely low visibility levels. However, the fog soon dispersed to make way for a beautiful sunrise, including in Avonmouth, Bristol (right) and at Primrose Hill, north London, where dozens turned out to mark the autumnal equinox.

Fury over 'horrible' naked woman-shaped golf tees that are sold by Amazon

Teed off: The naked lady golf tees, which have been called a 'nasty' joke which promote violence towards women

Inter Sport in Lewes, Sussex, and online retailer Amazon have been criticised for selling ‘naked lady’ golf tees - over claims they promote violence against women.

There's no business like SNOW-business! Inside the tiny British company which has provided the white stuff for Harry Potter, James Bond, Gladiator and a host of other Hollywood films

Darcey Crownshaw's Gloucestershire company Snow Business specialises in delivering more than 300 varieties of snow - both real and artificial - for the world's biggest film productions.

Chef creates burgers that taste like human FLESH

James Thomlinson, from London, designed his burger using gory testimonials describing the taste of human flesh, mixing veal, chicken livers, bone marrow and pork to make the macabre meal.

Revealed: The Kazakh gas billionaire who 'paid Nicole Scherzinger in excess of £100,000' to perform at his birthday party

The former X Factor judge and Pussycat Doll is said to have spent three hours at a party for oil and gas tycoon, Kairat Boranbayev, at his home near Berkeley Square in London's Mayfair.

Don't mention the war! How the Germans are 'bewildered' by British fixation with the Second World War 

Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor, says that although Germany has a huge admiration from Britain, they are baffled by their obsession with the Second World War.

Muslim teenager barred from A-level lessons at top girls' school after turning up for new term wearing full-face veil

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The pupil, who has attended Camden School for Girls in north London for the past five years without wearing the niqab, wants to enter the coeducational sixth form.

Is that really what they meant? Unfortunate sign makes the 'Tuck-in Coffee Shop' look like it has a very different name 

Locals in Doncaster, South Yorkshire say the font used in the sign of the The Tuck-in Coffee Shop make the first letter of its name unclear. Workers at the cafe insist the sign is fine

Mumsnet knows best! Butlins announces new £16m chalets in Somerset after consultation with parenting website

Best known for its 1950s 'Hi-de-Hi' image, the company is looking to leave the past behind with a £16m investment in new 'mum-friendly' chalets.

Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters! Council's advice to resident's Freedom of Information request about paranormal activity 

Staff from Essex County Council replied to the anonymous FOI request saying that if there were any concerns regarding paranormal activity in the area that they should call Ghostbusters.

The leopard and the honey trap: How predator didn't find this honey badger the sweet treat it was expecting 

After spotting the badger from a distance, the leopard managed to rush down inside its burrow and drag it out for what it thought was going to be an easy meal. It was sorely disappointed. The animal, famed for its ferocity, manages to land some vicious bites and scratches of its own.

That's one way to get to school early! The incredible moment a yellow bus races a powerful jet along a runway at 300mph ... and WINS

The video, filmed by Patrick Ortiz at the Winston-Salem air show in North Carolina, US, shows the modified bus racing a BD-5 micro jet at speeds of up to 300mph.

Holy record attempt! Energy firm’s staff smash record for number of people dressed as Batman – 542! 

A Canadian power company has smashed the Guinness World record for the most Batmans when 542 workers gathered in a car park dressed as the Caped Crusader.

Earning their stripes: Zebra go head to head with wildebeest in battle to cross river to reach grasslands 

Photographer Viktoras Dubinskas captured the scenes at the Serengeti's Mara river as the zebras battled their way through the water with thousands of wildebeest.

The 'unknown' outcasts of Bangladesh: Poignant pictures which show life for the country's transgender people

Photographer Shahria Sharmin decided to get to know the transsexual minority group, known as Hijras, who are shunned from society in most of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

Israeli special forces kill Hamas militants suspected of murder of three teenagers after they storm their West Bank hideout

Palestinians inspect the scene after Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians, Amer Abu Aisheh and Marwan Qawasmeh, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Israeli special forces stormed a West Bank hideout early on Tuesday and killed two Palestinians suspected in the June abduction and slaying of three Israeli teenagers, a gruesome attack that had triggered a chain of events that led to the war in Gaza this summer. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Two Palestinians suspected over the abduction and murders of three Israeli teenagers have been killed by Israeli special forces who stormed a West Bank hideout. The deaths of the two well-known Hamas militants, Amer Abu Aisheh and Marwan Qawasmeh, ended one of the largest manhunts conducted by the Israeli security forces. The deaths came after a special police counter-terrorism unit was led to the suspects hideout in an area of Hebron about a week ago. Three members of Qawasmeh's family was also arrested.

Israel's number one baby name is MOHAMED - but authorities tried to fix annual official list to keep it secret

The Population and Immigration Authority has published an official list of the 10 most popular boys and girls names of those born in Israel this year but has failed to include Arabic names.

Bid to tighten Spain’s abortion laws dropped by pro-life prime minister after storm of protest

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his government had taken the 'most sensible action' in abandoning plans to restrict women's right to abortion

Spain's government today abandoned plans to restrict women's right to abortion, which had sparked mass protests and international condemnation.

'Drunk' man mauled to death by white tiger after leaping into its enclosure at Delhi zoo

Lethal jump: The man, named locally as Maqsood, 22, faces the white tiger in its enclosure at National Zoological Park in New Delhi

Maqsood, 22, is said to have been under the influence of alcohol when he climbed into the white tiger enclosure at New Delhi Zoo on Tuesday.

Belgian king’s ‘illegitimate daughter’ in court bid for recognition – which would put her 15th in line to country’s throne 

Delphine Boel, 46, pictured, claims she is the result of an affair between her mother Sybille de Selys Longchamps and the future king of Belgium Albert II.

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What Ed Miliband fails to grasp about the English is that liberty runs through our DNA 

The late Tony Benn disclosed in his diaries that in the late Eighties and early Nineties he gave the Miliband brothers, at the behest of their father, seminars in socialism, writes SIMON HEFFER.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Labour's lurch to the Left is a gift to Tories 

'But by any standards, this was surely 68 minutes of the most economically illiterate Left-wing claptrap uttered by a Labour leader since Michael Foot.'