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
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).
ISIS in the crosshairs: How Britain is carrying out daily missile strikes in Iraq to destroy their bunkers, trucks, boats and stockpile of deadly weapons
- 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
- Jihadi John on 'kill list' of British ISIS fighters in Syria as ministers threaten more targeted drone strikes to take out terrorists
- 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
- My sons could be next, says father of two more Isis fighters from Cardiff who are friends with the jihadi killed in an RAF drone strike
- Trussed up and forced to watch the fuse burn down that will kill them: ISIS place two doomed men in the ruins of a building before demolishing it with dynamite
- ISIS in the crosshairs: How Britain is carrying out daily missile strikes in Iraq to destroy their bunkers, trucks, boats and stockpile of deadly weapons
- 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
- '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
- Serving policeman is among three men arrested on suspicion of faking details of a terror plot to kidnap an officer
- Partially blind recluse who ran a film piracy empire from his bedroom that could have cost movie studios £120m is jailed for four years
- Costa Coffee owner Whitbread plans price rises to pay for government's new national living wage, as trading cools in August
- Summer-born children MUST be allowed to delay starting school, says minister in attack on councils' treatment of parents
- 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
- NHS patients in Kent will be able to travel to FRANCE for surgery - because 'it's closer and more convenient than London'
- Anger as 40 children are put in detention because their rulers are too short or their pencil cases are too small
- Terrifying moment smoke billows from train after fire broke out forcing 150 commuters to be evacuated
- The Duggars rally around scandal-hit Josh's wife at family wedding: Jim Bob, Michelle and the kids take a tense-looking Anna to their cousin's big day as they prepare for further lurid revelations
- 'Run, Joe, run!' Pittsburgh crowd enthusiastically encourages Joe Biden to run for president
- My life with the world's most infamous drug lord: Pablo Escobar's son reveals the heartbreak, fear of violence and how his father once burnt $2MILLION in cash to keep warm one night on the run
- 'We are absolutely thrilled but feel for the other family': Couple who claimed their newborn was swapped with 'changeling' baby in human trafficking racket at El Salvador hospital are REUNITED with their lost son after other mothers take DNA test
- Prince Harry and his ex Chelsy Davy 'thinking of giving relationship another chance' after secret tryst in African jungle
- Pickled remains of Auschwitz victim whose wife and children were gassed before he was dismembered by sadistic Nazi doctor are finally laid to rest 72 years later
- Kansas State officials apologize after their marching band caused offense when it accidentally formed the shape of male genitalia
- 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
- LA firefighter shot dead his cop wife in front of their son, 6, before killing himself in horror murder suicide just hours after family day at Disneyland
- Rose Kennedy was obsessed with her children's weight and even after daughter Rosemary's disastrous lobotomy would warn her to stay away from desserts, new book reveals
- EXCLUSIVE: 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'
- EXCLUSIVE: 'Doctor, where is my son?': Agony of the mother who claims her newborn was swapped with 'changeling' in an El Salvador hospital as she comes face to face with doctor arrested for 'trafficking'
- Former Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl hit with charge that has rarely been used since WWII and could mean life behind bars
- Charles's VERY mixed feelings over the Queen's record reign: Prince is oldest heir to the throne in British history... but would be more frustrated if it wasn't for Camilla
- Emerging from hiding: Dentist who killed Cecil the Lion finally returns to work after six weeks of protests and death threats
- Palaces for the kings of the road? Trucking firms hope to fill driver shortage by pimping out cabins for rigs that cost up to $240,000
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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
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.
Terrifying moment woman is thrown from rubber ring and cracks her head on water slide at Center Parcs
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.
MIGRANT CRISIS IN EUROPE
Making a break for freedom: Desperate migrants try to flee baton-wielding police at holding area near Hungarian border
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.
HOW THE WORLD LOOKS FROM WESTMINSTER
WESTMINSTER TODAY
- Labour leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn said taxpayers should be able to opt out of funding the Army in idea branded 'bonkers' by military top brass
- Cameron told Merkel Britain could walk away from the EU: Bombshell new biography reveals furious German leader slammed PM as 'hated' and a 'wrecker'
- Now Chuka Umunna urges Labour to unite behind Jeremy Corbyn if he wins - weeks after refusing to serve under him
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, 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.
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, 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.
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
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.
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THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
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
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).
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