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Fighting Back Against Rogue Drones
Rogue drones "deliberately" flown over one of the UK's busiest airports caused travel chaos this week.
Incoming planes were forced to divert to airports up and down the country as the drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), repeatedly appeared over the airfield at London's Gatwick Airport. The situation was so serious the Army was called in to support the local police in tackling the issue, with the runway finally re-opening on Friday morning.
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Chinese Nationals Charged With Hacking US
The US justice department has indicted two Chinese men accused of hacking into the computer networks of companies and government agencies in Western countries.
The pair are allegedly part of a "hacking group" known as Advanced Persistent Threat 10, affiliated with China's main intelligence service. They have not been arrested.
The US and UK have accused China of violating an agreement relating to commercial espionage.
Zhu Hua and Zhang Shilong worked for a company called Huaying Haitai and in association with the Chinese Ministry of State Security, the US court filing says.
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US Troops To Be Withdrawn From Syria
The US is preparing to withdraw all its troops from Syria, US media are quoting defence officials as saying.
CBS said it was told the White House had ordered the Pentagon to "begin planning for an immediate withdrawal".
President Donald Trump tweeted that the Islamic State (IS) group - also known as ISIS - had been defeated in Syria, his "only reason for being there". Some 2,000 troops have helped rid much of north-eastern Syria of IS, but pockets of fighters remain.
It had been thought US defence officials wanted to stay to ensure the militant group could not rebuild.
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Three Injured After Stabbings At Two London Health Centres
Three people have been taken to hospital after stabbings at two health centres in east London.
Two victims were stabbed in Tredegar Practice on St Stephen's Road in Tower Hamlets and another at nearby St Stephen's Health Centre at about 11:00 GMT. Their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening, but the victims have been taken to a major trauma centre.
Scotland Yard said one man had been arrested and taken to hospital.
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Members Of Banned Terrorist Group Jailed
A neo-Nazi couple who named their baby after Adolf Hitler and were convicted of being members of a banned terrorist group have been jailed.
Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, from Banbury, were part of National Action and had "a long history of violent racist beliefs", a judge said.
Birmingham Crown Court heard the couple gave their child the middle name Adolf in "admiration" of Hitler. Thomas was jailed for six years and six months, and Patatas for five years.
In total six people were sentenced for being part of what Judge Melbourne Inman QC described as a group with "horrific aims".
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Former Nasa Engineer Tricks Parcel Thieves
A former Nasa engineer spent six months building a glitter bomb trap to trick thieves after some parcels were stolen from his doorstep.
The device, hidden in an Apple Homepod box, used four smartphones, a circuit board and 1lb (453g) of glitter.
Mark Rober, who is now a Youtuber, caught the original thieves on his home security camera. He decided to take action after the police said they were unable to investigate the case. He designed the elaborate bomb so that it would be activated when the package in which it was hidden was opened by thieves. The phone cameras and microphones would record the…
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Met Police To Carry Out Facial Recognition Trial
Christmas shoppers could have their faces scanned in central London this week as part of a police trial.
The Met says it will invite people to take part in testing the technology rather than scanning people covertly. The trials will be held near Soho, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square on Monday and Tuesday.
Privacy campaigner Big Brother Watch has described the use of such technology as "authoritarian, dangerous and lawless". In a statement the group said that "monitoring innocent people in public is a breach of fundamental rights to privacy and freedom of speech and assembly".
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Ex British Soldier Accused Of Being A Terrorist Returns To UK
A former British soldier who was convicted in Turkey of being a member of a terrorist organisation has skipped bail and returned to the UK.
Joe Robinson, from Leeds, was facing a seven-and-a half-year jail term.
In 2015, he spent time with Kurdish armed groups in Syria, including the YPG, which Turkey regards as a terrorist group.
Robinson, 25, was on bail pending an appeal against his conviction. He said he believed the Turkish authorities had "no legitimate reason" to convict him of terror offences, and he wanted to be left alone to spend time with friends and family in the UK.
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Christmas Market Attacker Kills Two And Injures Twelve
A Strasbourg gunman yelled "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic) as he opened fire on people enjoying an evening out at a Christmas market, the Paris public prosecutor told reporters.
Rémy Heitz said two people had been killed and one left brain-dead after the attack in the eastern French city on Tuesday. Twelve were wounded, six seriously.
The man, named by local media as Chérif Chekatt, was known to authorities as having been radicalised in prison. The 29-year-old was armed with a gun and a knife and escaped the area in a taxi, Mr Heitz said.
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Russian Ex-Policeman Given Second Life Sentence
A Siberian policeman described as Russia's most prolific mass murderer in modern times has been given a second life sentence.
Mikhail Popkov, 53, murdered 55 women and a policeman near Irkutsk between 1992 and 2007. He was already in jail for 22 other murders. He killed the victims after offering them late-night rides in his car. At least 10 were also raped.
Popkov was caught in 2012 after a DNA match identified his car. The victims were all women between the ages of 16 and 40 apart from one male, a policeman. In three cases he was on duty in his police car.
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