Jolie's war on ISIS: Hollywood star tells Parliament how jihadis are using rape as 'the centrepoint of their terror' as she recalls horror of meeting girls as young as seven who were brutally assaulted

Angelina Jolie tells Parliament ISIS uses rape as 'centrepoint of their terror'

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie today told the Houses of Parliament that ISIS is using rape as the 'centrepoint of their terror' as she warned of the destruction caused by sexual violence in conflict zones. The actress and human rights activist spoke of the harrowing moment she met girls as young as seven who had been brutally raped in war zones. Jolie, who is giving evidence to a Lords committee, said jihadist fanatics in the 'most aggressive terrorist group in the world' were using sex attacks as a 'very effective weapon'.

Jihadi John on 'kill list' of British ISIS fighters in Syria: Ministers threaten more targeted drone strikes to take out UK terrorists

Jihadi John on 'kill list' of British ISIS fighters in Syria

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon ordered the extraordinary use of military force in Syria without parliamentary authority to kill former Cardiff schoolboy Reyaad Khan, 21, (bottom left) who was accused of plotting bloody attacks on the streets of Britain. Two other fanatics were also killed, including British national Ruhul Amin (bottom right). Khan may have been on a Government 'kill list' with at least ten British ISIS fighters on it, including executioner in chief Mohammed Emwazi, known as Jihadi John (main picture).

Student who wanted to become a Jihadi bride is jailed for 15 months for helping a terrorist travel to Syria after striking up an online romance with him 

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Undated handout photo issued by West Midlands Police of Angela Shafiq who has been jailed at the Old Bailey for 15 months for helping a man she had never met to travel to Syria after striking up an online romance with him. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday September 8, 2015. In a series of Skype chats, Shafiq, 22, advised Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, from Birmingham, about travel documents and how to get past border controls before he left to join rebels in the war-torn country. See PA story COURTS Shafiq. Photo credit should read: West Midlands Police/PA Wire
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Angela Shafiq, 22, pictured, advised Mohammed Ahmed, from Birmingham, about travel documents and how to get past border controls before he left Britain to join rebels in the war-torn country.

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Disabled mugging victim Alan Barnes sells the house he bought with donations for less than he paid for it - just five months after moving in 

Disabled mugging victim Alan Barnes sells house he bought with donations

The 67-year-old, who is just 4ft 6in tall and is visually impaired, moved into his new £150,000 home just five months ago after well wishers raised £330,000. He had been left with a broken collar bone after being attacked by drug addict Richard Gatiss while putting the bins out at his old home in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, on January 25.

'I hope he spends every day in prison haunted by what he did': Student Karen Buckley's devastated parents see the loner who killed their daughter within 20 minutes of meeting her jailed for at least 23 years

Loner Alexander Pacteau, 21, was jailed today for killing the 24-year-old while she was on a night out in Glasgow. The jobless recluse strangle and bludgeoned Miss Buckley to death.

Serving policeman is among three men arrested on suspicion of faking details of a terror plot to kidnap an officer 

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A tip-off last Christmas led to West Midlands Police asking staff not to travel to work in their uniform and urged them to be extra vigilant on patrol in case they were attacked.

Partially blind recluse who ran a film piracy empire from his bedroom that could have cost movie studios £120m is jailed for four years 

Paul Mahoney, pictured, from Londonderry, made hundreds of thousands of pounds in advertising revenue generated from illegal sites offering access to the latest films and TV shows.

Costa Coffee owner Whitbread plans price rises to pay for government's new national living wage, as trading cools in August

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The leisure company said it was developing plans to deal with the new legislation which comes into force in April next year, including 'productivity improvements' and 'efficiency savings'.

Summer-born children MUST be allowed to delay starting school, says minister in attack on councils' treatment of parents

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Schools minister Nick Gibb vowed to rewrite the rules to make clear that youngsters must be allowed to join reception classes even after they turn five and not be forced to skip a year later.

Generation mobile zombie: 1 in 10 look at their phone as soon as they wake up - and almost 50% check it at least 50 times a day

The figures come from the Deloitte Mobile Consumer report which surveyed 4,000 people in the UK. They show almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds check their smartphones within five minutes of waking.

NHS patients in Kent will be able to travel to FRANCE for surgery - because 'it's closer and more convenient than London'

The deal would see South Kent Coast Clinical Commissioning Group pay for patients to have minor operations and a range of medical procedures at the Centre Hospitalier de Calais, pictured.

Anger as 40 children are put in detention because their rulers are too short or their pencil cases are too small

More than 40 pupils have apparently been taken out of classes at the Magna Academy in Poole, Dorset, because they have not complied with the school's strict equipment requirements.

Terrifying moment smoke billows from train after fire broke out forcing 150 commuters to be evacuated 

Some 150 passengers on the London Midland service between Leamington Spa and Worcester Shrub Hill were evacuated when the fire broke out at Warwick Parkway station.

Terrifying moment woman is thrown from rubber ring and cracks her head on water slide at Center Parcs 

Moment a Center Parcs guest is thrown from rubber ring and cracks her head

The dramatic incident took place at Center Parcs Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire and was caught on camera by the woman's brother, Matt Smith, who was filming while on the slide. In the video Rea, 16, (circled top right) is thrown from the rubber ring while descending at speed and crashes into the wall of the water slides' tunnel.

I'd rather have been raped by a man, says woman 'sexually assaulted by female friend who used bandages and a sex toy to pretend she was male' 

Gayle Newland, 25, is said to have befriended the woman, also 25, by posing on Facebook as a man named 'Kye' and the couple later had sex in hotels. Chester Crown Court (pictured) heard.

Fourteen men thrown off a holiday flight to Tenerife over drug fears complain Jet2 staff overreacted to a prank involving a bag of SALT

The Scots were kicked off a Glasgow to Tenerife flight over alleged 'disruptive behaviour', as the plane was diverted to Faro in Portugal. It all sparked when cabin crew found white powder in a bag.

Send him packing! Campaigners demand the BBC sack wildlife presenter Chris Packham over 'slanted and extreme' animal rights views 

The Countryside Alliance, which campaigns on behalf of hunting, shooting and fishing groups, has now accused Mr Packham of abusing his position to promote 'blatant political propaganda.'

Mother bought 12 packets of cocaine as a present for her daughter's 18th birthday 'to make sure they had a good time' 

Nicola Austen, of Tunbridge Wells, booked a limo ride to London to celebrate her daughter's turning of age. She also acquired no less than 12 packets of the Class A drug to take on board.

Thousands of NatWest customers hit by yet another technical glitch leaving them unable to withdraw cash at ATMs or pay at tills 

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Branch staff told irate customers that the bank's systems had failed nationwide, meaning millions of people may have been locked out of their accounts.

Ex-Church of England Bishop, 82, who once described Prince Charles as a 'loyal friend' admits sexually abusing 18 teenagers and young men over a thirty-year period

Today, weeks before his trial was due to start at the London's Old Bailey, Ball, dramatically pleaded guilty to misconduct in a public office between 1977 and 1992, admitting assaulting several young men.

Oh, no they didn't! Theatre scraps Snow White's dwarves because audiences don't feel comfortable with the word

De Monfort Hall in Leicester has instead renamed their Christmas production 'Snow White and her Seven Friends', claiming they did 'not feel comfortable' with the term 'dwarf.'

Mum-of-one tells how she was 'completely duped' by Louis Theroux-lookalike conman who threw her out of her own home

Allan Debenham, who once claimed to be the presenter so he could stay in a pub for free, moved in to Jane Putt's home in Bodmin, Cornwall in March, just 11 days after the pair had met online.

Making a break for freedom: Desperate migrants try to flee baton-wielding police at holding area near Hungarian border

Migrant in Hungary stumbles into railway tracks as hundreds break cordon

The man (left) was among hundreds of refugees (inset) who tried to escape a holding area near the village of Roszke today, angered at the treatment by police. He was running from baton-wielding officers when he appeared to stumble and toppled head-first between the railway lines. With his glasses knocked from his face, the migrant is pulled to his feet and frogmarched back by four policemen. Tensions are building at Hungary's southern border, where some 400 migrants were being held at a collection point waiting to be taken to a fenced-in registration area nearby. But only two buses had been sent to collect them all day.

Denmark places anti-migrant adverts in Lebanon newspapers warning that benefits will be cut by 50% and asylum seekers must speak Danish to stay there

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The adverts appeared in at least three Arabic-language newspapers and one English-language daily in Lebanon, warning that Denmark has tightened its regulations for asylum seekers.

Syrian refugee children brought to Britain under Cameron's rescue plan could be DEPORTED as soon as they reach 18

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The government has been forced to admit that any refugee child given asylum in the United Kingdom under the Prime Minister's rescue plan will have to reapply to stay when they turn 18.

British troops 'could be deployed to the Middle East to set up and protect safe havens for refugees fleeing Syria' 

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The Prime Minister - who has previously ruled out the idea - said yesterday that the creation of safe zones was 'certainly the right sort of thinking.'

French mayor says only Christian migrants should be allowed into the country to avoid an influx of 'disguised terrorists'

Yves Nicolin, who is also an MP, was speaking as European countries including Britain prepared to welcome thousands of new migrants from war-torn countries such as Syria.

Germany ups the ante in political posturing over migrant crisis by saying they could take 500,000 refugees a YEAR for 'several years'

Angela Merkel's deputy Sigmar Gabriel made the comment amid an unprecedented influx which has seen the country take in 10,000 refugees in just one day over the weekend.

Migrant 'five star route' to the EU: Syrian man pays six times the average price for a safe journey to Europe via Dubai

A Syrian man carries a child wrapped in a thermal blanket as they arrive with others at the coast on a dinghy after crossing from Turkey, at the island of Lesbos, Greece, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some 20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Tareq, 26, from Damascus, paid 3,000 Euro (£2,175), significantly more than the £500 many refugees pay traffickers to cross the Mediterranean sea, to arrive safely in the EU.

Corbyn in loyalty probe after FAILING to show up for most important Commons vote since election

CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 06:  Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North and candidate in the Labour Party leadership election, speaks to supporters outside Great St Mary's church on September 6, 2015 in Cambridge, England.  Mr Corbyn spoke to an audience of over 1,200 people as candidates continue to campaign for the leadership of the Labour Party the results of which are due to be announced on September 12.  (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)

Jeremy Corbyn - who is the runaway favourite to take over as Labour leader on Saturday - did not bother showing up in last night's crucial EU referendum vote, MailOnline can reveal.

David Cameron suffers his first Commons defeat since the election as 37 Tory rebels reject EU plans

Europe minister David Lidington agreed to an amendment designed to appease Eurosceptics but it didn't stop the defeat

Tory rebels joined with Labour to reject ministers' plans to relax restrictions on government campaigning in the run-up to the EU referendum, resulting in humiliation for David Cameron, pictured.

Tory minister sent a vote in Labour's leadership race after forgetting to quit the party after being given a peerage by the PM

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Ros Altmann joined the Lords shortly after the general election to oversee pension reforms. But Labour has discovered that for the first four months in her new role Ms Altman was still a Labour member.

Unexpected item in bagging area! Ministers release 1,600-word rule book on when you will be charged 5p for a plastic bag

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New rules set to come into force on October 5 will mean shoppers have to pay 5p for plastic bags in a bid to slash the number used, in a similar way to Scotland and Wales (pictured).

Labour leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn 'attended Cairo conference which backed Iraqi attacks on British troops' 

Frontrunner for new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn attended a conference during Iraq war which encourage Iraqis to attack British troops, according to BBC Panorama documentary.

Motorist mowed down 91-year-old RAF veteran while doing 56mph in a 30 zone because he was late for work at Poundland

Gurpreet Sandhu mowed down RAF veteran John Downes because he was late for work at

Gurpreet Sandhu, 27, of Handsworth, Birmingham, was listening to loud music when he hit 91-year-old John Downes. The pensioner, who had served with the RAF and had seen service in India, was walking to a bookmakers to place his daily bet when he was hit in Sutton Coldfield town centre at 10.30am on November 8 last year.

Shopkeepers helped fight off knife-wielding raiders who made off with three bags of gold jewellery on mopeds

A gang of six on mopeds smashed through the front of The Jeweller, in Kingsbury, north London, armed with knives and hammers.

Straight Outta Cambridge! Student who stunned University Challenge viewers by wearing a leather vest 'was inspired by hip hop star ASAP Rocky' 

Cambridge student Kaamil Shah, of King's College, opted for an outfit described by some observers as Los Angeles gangster chic - a leather-look vest and chunky neck chain.

Residents are plagued by MILLIONS of bluebottles after frozen fish worth £1m was left to rot following a factory fire 

A blaze ripped through the Shapla Frozen Foods factory in Rainham, Essex, and also ruined a warehouse and two cottages nearby, leaving fish and seafood to rot, creating swarms of flies.

Victim's family's anguish as gangland figure Kenneth Noye who murdered man in a road-rage could be freed today at parole hearing 

Gangland figure Kenneth Noye, 68, is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of 21-year-old Stephen Cameron in May 1996 but he could be released from prison today.

Sex attacker who tried to molest a woman kickboxer is jailed after she fought back and pinned him in a headlock with her knees 

The 25-year-old woman was walking home at 2am when Mark Willis, 40, repeatedly punched her in the face and pushed her over a wall and into a garden in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Muslim governor named as architect of Birmingham 'Trojan horse' plot is banned from any involvement with schools for 'undermining British values' 

Tahir Alam, pictured, has become the first person to be issued with the blanket ban by the Department for Education (DfE), which accused him of 'undermining the fundamental British values'.

One in five hospitals are failing to screen elderly patients for dementia despite government guidelines

In the worst trusts, staff are screening fewer than half of over 75s who are admitted through A&E; for dementia, NHS England figures show. Guidelines say 90 per cent should be screened.

Youth, 18, who was taken to police by his MOTHER denies the 'gratuitous' murder of a 15-year-old boy

Alan Cartwright was cycling ahead of his four friends along the Caledonian Road in Islington in February last year when a gang of three robbers stepped into the group's path.

Young police recruits are being investigated for 'gross misconduct' for allegedly sending an offensive selfie video from Shoreham disaster site 

The two recently recruited constables - who have not been named - are facing an internal investigation from Sussex Police's professional standards department over the damaging claims.

Escapologist tried to outdo Houdini by being buried alive in handcuffs under six feet of soil - but he nearly died and had to be rescued

Antony Britton tried to outdo Houdini by being buried alive in handcuffs but nearly died

Antony Britton, from Linthwaite, West Yorkshire, had hoped to go one better than Harry Houdini by escaping unaided after being handcuffed and buried in a standard-sized grave under six feet of soil. But the stuntman had to be hauled out unconscious by crew members after he failed to break through to the surface almost nine minutes into the escape bid.

Judy Murray says schoolgirls should be given private changing rooms to encourage them to take part in PE lessons 

Tennis coach Judy Murray, 56, said schools need to be more sympathetic towards image-conscious teenager girls if they want to encourage them to do more sports and become more active.

Police vow to learn 'every lesson' from investigation to find out how a father-of-two died in custody after he was restrained by officers 

Police Scotland head Sir Stephen House vowed to learn from the probe into the death of father-of-two Sheku Bayoh, 31, who died after being restrained by nine officers in Kirkcaldy, Fife, in May.

Up to 1,750 Britons 'will use assisted suicide every year': Prediction aired ahead of historic Commons vote on right to die

Labour MP Rob Marris, who has proposed a new right-to-die Bill, said a shift in attitudes since the rise of the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland meant it has a chance of success when voted on in the Commons.

'It seems unbelievable that my father is no longer here': Heartbreaking letter reveals Queen's sorrow after King George VI died aged just 56

The note, written on mourning paper and sent to King George VI's former assistant private secretary Sir Eric Mieville, was written just one month after the young Queen Elizabeth took the throne.

'It's a miracle we all came back': Band of brothers who all fought in WWII are all 'still going strong' today in their 90s after serving with distinction in Italy, Burma and Germany

The five brothers, who each returned with their own startling tales from the conflict, still live in their home county of Worcestershire and often meet to reminisce about their exploits in the war.

Sorry, it was us all along! Royal Navy admits one of its submarines damaged an Irish trawler... and not a Russian 'Red October' 

The Karen was towed at 10 knots during the April 15 incident 18 miles from Ardglass on the south-east shore of Northern Ireland and the vessel was left badly damaged, but the crew escaped unharmed.

Headmaster and female teacher who were filmed having sex in his office by a pupil in a video that became an online sensation face being struck off by education chiefs 

Swansea headmaster and teacher filmed having sex face being struck off

The 30-second sex tape shows the pupil in a corridor outside the head teacher's office at Bryntawe Comprehensive School in Swansea, inset. Noises of sexual pleasure from headmaster Graham Daniels, 51, and chemistry tutor Bethan Thomas, 37, left, could be heard from inside the room. The video was shared hundreds of times on social media and the school received a complaint, sparking an investigation by governors and education chiefs. Both Mr Daniel and Miss Thomas, formerly Mrs Bale, resigned from the 750-pupil school in South Wales.

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes are 'FOUR TIMES as likely to progress to traditional cigarettes within a year', study warns

Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh found 68.9 per cent of young people who used e-cigarettes went on to smoke traditional cigarettes, compared with 18.9 per cent of those who didn't use the devices.

Do YOU have a doppelgänger? Expert claims chances are high as 'there is only so much genetic diversity to go around'

The claims were made by Michael Sheehan, assistant professor of neurobiology at Cornell University. Actors Marshall Logan-Green (left) are Tom Hardy are celebrity lookalikes.

Forget the alarm clock, soon your BED will wake you up: Bedjet puts air conditioning inside a mattress to help you rise

The Bedjet is an ultra rapid cooling, heating and climate control system made for your bed. Its describes its alarm function as 'a natural bio-hack wake up time'.

Live like a supermodel: Natalia Vodianova's country pile goes on sale for £3million... complete with a spa and swimming pool

Natalia Vodianova's country pile in Selham in West Sussex goes on sale for £3M

She may always look glitzy on the red carpet, but as these images Lodsbridge Mill estate in Selham, West Sussex reveal, the rags-to-riches Russian supermodel has a far more understated style when it comes to staying in. Clockwise from left: The exterior of the grade II listed four-bedroom house, the rustic kitchen, indoor-outdoor swimming pool and main bedroom.

A classical singer, a fitness guru and a former Miss Universe: Meet the glamorous rugby WAGS set to descend on the UK

England's rugby WAGS, among them Camilla Kerslake and Chloe Madeley, have been asked to keep a low profile ahead of the tournament which kicks off next Friday at Twickenham.

Battle of the brides! Women stand in shop window for TWO DAYS in a bizarre attempt to win £5,000 towards their dream weddings

Kate Holder, 27, from Holsworthy, Devon, stayed upright for a whopping 58 hours to win the cash prize. She and fellow bride Tara Attis, 32, from Cornwall, stood in the window of a bridal shop.

Teenager becomes internet star after parading in skimpy satin shorts and crop top in Pot Noodle ad

Michael Moran, 17, from Bootle, Merseyside, says he been surprised by all the attention he's received since starring in the ad but his mother Sharon says he has handled it brilliantly.

Don't choke on the price tag! Designer creates the world's most expensive cake for a wealthy Arab family costing almost £50million

A wealthy Arab family have splashed out on the cake for a birthday party which was created by fashion designer Debbie Wingham and includes replicas of her dresses and real diamonds.

Remains of Polish Jew whose wife and children were gassed at Auschwitz before he was dismembered and pickled in a test tube by sadistic Nazi doctor is finally laid to rest 72 years later

Polish Jew who was dismembered and pickled by Auschwitz Nazis laid to rest 72 years later

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Menachem Taffel, a Polish Jew who lived in Berlin, died a hideous death so Dr August Hirt (pictured right) could preserve the skulls and bones (inset) of 'these sub-humans'. Taffel was among a group of 86 Jews plucked from the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and transported to France for the sole purpose of being murdered. At the weekend, 72 years after he was killed in the pursuit of perverted medical science, the last two victims of the demon doctor, including Taffel, were buried in an emotional ceremony in France (main).

Family of baby 'swapped' in El Salvador are calling son Moses after being emotionally reunited because 'he was lost for three months and now he's been found'

Richard Cushworth, a British-born Texan and his wife Mercedes Casanellas are calling the baby they were given back last night Moses, his mother Lynne, of Delaware, tells Daily Mail Online.

Could the West ACCIDENTALLY start a war with Russia? Warning over aggressive military exercises - as U.S. fears build-up of Putin's forces in Syria could spark conflict

The European Leadership Network, a group made up of members from both Russia and Europe, has warned that relations are heading towards Cold War levels of hostility following events in Ukraine.

Pope Francis reforms marriage annulments, allowing thousands of divorced and remarried Catholics 'living in sin to rejoin the Church'

Pope Francis has reformed the church's procedures for marriage annulments in a bid to prevent Catholics from divorcing their first partner outside of the church and remarrying in sin.

Emerging from hiding: Dentist who killed Cecil the Lion finally returns to work after six weeks of protests and death threats

Lion Killer Walter Palmer returns to work at his dentist surgery today Tuesday Picture Chris Bott

Walter Palmer showed up to work at his Bloomington dental practice Tuesday morning after he announced his return in his first interview over the weekend.

Bangladeshi children as young as 10 forced to work from dawn til dusk in balloon factory for just £6.50 a month - just so their families can eat 

The children were pictured in a factory in Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, where they work from 6am until 5pm helping to produce the brightly-coloured balloons.

China cracks down on middle aged women dancing noisily in public squares after annoyed residents begin throwing coins, rocks and faeces to make them stop

The women, known as 'damas', who have become famous for their routines performed to loud music in public, annoyed one Beijing man so much he fired a gun into the air to make them stop.

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RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Whoever wins the Labour leadership election - I predict a bloodbath

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DAILY MAIL COMMENT: This was no tragedy - another Iraq would be

This paper sheds no tears for British citizen Reyaad Khan and his two fellow Islamic State fighters killed by an RAF drone in Syria on August 21.