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HOUSTON --A U.S. citizen accused of working alongside al-Qaida members pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization, authorities said. During a court hearing, Daniel Joseph Maldonado, 28, a Muslim convert who grew up in New Hampshire and was also known as Daniel Aljughaifi and Abu Mohammed, admitted to traveling in December to a terrorist camp in Somalia, where he was trained to use firearms and explosives in an effort to help the Islamic Courts Union topple the government and install an Islamic state. Members of al-Qaida were present at the camp.

Three men have been arrested in connection with the terrorist attacks in London on July 7, 2005. Two men, aged 23 and 30, were arrested at Manchester Airport as they were about to catch a flight to Pakistan. A third man, aged 26, was arrested at a house in Leeds shortly afterwards. More follows...

Henrik Larsson is one of the greatest footballers ever. He is rather tiny, in fact not very fast, but is all the same a master of the game he still is participating in in at the highest of levels, despite the age of 35. On Sunday, he will play for the legendary club of Manchester United. The article: "I had a really good reception from the Manchester United players when I arrived on Friday. They seem like a good bunch of lads and it was very exciting to be shown around the club for the first time. The facilities at...

Police in Manchester have been told not to arrest Muslims wanted on warrants at prayer times during Ramadan. Greater Manchester Police confirmed it had asked detectives not to make planned arrests during those periods for reasons of religious sensitivity. The advice was emailed out to officers working in Moss Side, Hulme, Whalley Range, Rusholme, Fallowfield, Ardwick, Longsight, Gorton and Levenshulme. Police said it was not a blanket ban, just a "request for sensitivity". The email stressed the order did not apply to on-the-spot arrests, only the execution of arrest warrants. The holy month of Ramadan began on 22 September and...

Great pictures of an anti-war protest in England on Saturday.

BANGOR, Maine -- A trans-Atlantic flight from Manchester, England, en route to Chicago was diverted to the Bangor International Airport on Friday, officials said. American Airlines Flight 55, a Boeing 763, was diverted for security reasons, said Arlene Murray, New England regional spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration. She declined to elaborate. Police confirmed that there was an incident at the airport but provided no details. Federal agents were at the airport, as well. FBI spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz declined to discuss the nature of the problem. "We're responding to determine the cause of the diversion. It's going to take a...

2 jets diverted for security concerns 4 minutes ago A U.S. Airways jet flying to North Carolina was diverted to Oklahoma City after an air marshal subdued a passenger involved in an incident with a flight attendant, an airline spokesman said. Law enforcement officers were questioning the passenger after the jet landed at Will Rogers World Airport, said Morgan Durrant, a U.S. Airways spokesman. He did not disclose the nature of the problem between the passenger and the flight attendant. The Airbus A321, which left Phoenix at 6:15 a.m., was to resume its flight to Charlotte, Durrant said. There were...

Passengers on a Manchester-bound flight have described how two men were removed from the plane because other travellers thought they were speaking Arabic. Heath Schofield, a passenger on the flight from Malaga, described it as being a "bit like Chinese whispers". Monarch Airlines said passengers had demanded the men were removed because they were acting suspiciously. Birmingham MP Khalid Mahmood said it was disgraceful the pair seemed to have been judged on their skin colour. The men - reported to be of Asian or Middle Eastern appearance - were taken from Wednesday's flight ZB 613 and questioned but were allowed...

Charges expected within days over airline 'terror plot' By Sean Rayment, Security Correspondent (Filed: 20/08/2006) Terrorism charges against the suspects allegedly involved in a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners are "imminent", The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. The police are "hugely optimistic" that they will be able to bring charges against many of the suspects in the very near future, according to security sources. Police explore a section of woods where a cache of liquid explosive is believed to have been found It is also thought that anti-terrorist officers have found the liquid explosive which police believe was intended to...

Report: Manchester United to show Ronaldo the door, Rooney irate at teammate's role in sending off LONDON – Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo, criticized for his role in Wayne Rooney's sending off at the World Cup, won't be back at Manchester United and can expect payback from the star England striker in the future, a British newspaper said. Quoting an unnamed source, The Sun reported Monday that Rooney threatened to “split him in two” when the two next meet. Ronaldo may be wearing a different uniform when that happens. The British tabloid says United will show Ronaldo the door “because of...

EAST HARTFORD -- A Manchester Board of Education member is facing criminal charges, including driving under the influence and resisting officers, after his arrest outside the Venus Lounge, an East Hartford strip bar known for prostitution and drug activity, police said. John M. Rowe, a Democrat elected in November to a three-year term, refused to submit to sobriety tests and threatened recrimination to the officers during his June 2 arrest, police said. Rowe, 41, of 31 Gerard St., Manchester, was so inebriated that an officer had to hold him up to keep him from falling over during his arrest and...

MANCHESTER, N.H. --Before this week, Jim Hourihan of Liverpool, England, had never heard of Manchester, N.H. But thanks to a mix-up, he ended up there this week while trying to fly to another Manchester -- the one on the other side of the Atlantic.

Seventh Trumpet Mass on the Feast of Corpus Christi June 18th -3pm - Veterans Park, Manchester, NH Each month over one thousand people have gathered for the Seventh Trumpet Mass for priestly vocations at St. Joseph Cathedral. We will celebrate the next Mass on June 18th the Feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, at an outdoor Mass followed by a Eucharistic Procession. This is an unbelievable opportunity for Catholics to come together to publicly profess their faith in the true presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and to pray for vocations to the priesthood!...

AT LEAST 400 Al-Qaeda terrorist suspects — double the previous estimates — are at large in Britain, according to police and MI5. Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, director-general of MI5, has said the figure could be as high as 600 if all those thought to have returned from combat training in camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere are included. The new assessment — effectively a “terror audit” of Britain — was confirmed this weekend by one of Britain’s most senior police officers, who warned that shortages of trained surveillance teams were undermining attempts to monitor all the suspects. “With about 400...

Love it or hate it, the Queen City's other name has stuck. We're smack in the middle of New Hampshire's largest city, where half-naked boys are killing a scorching afternoon on the dirty concrete slopes of the local skate park. Here, down the street from the city's old baseball stadium, a Memorial High School freshman smears a cracked paintball on the ground while, nearby, two Central High School teens flirt beside a graffiti-covered wall. The kids here have been living in Manchester all their lives, but not one of them ever calls it that. Because these days, when you're a...

I would like to express my sadness at the death of my heroes that I had the good fortune to meet only a couple of years ago. This man had defenders, grown men and women gasping in awe at his skill, talent and good looks as he dazzled defenders and others who watched him apply his trade down the years. When I met him at Borders books during a signing of his book "Blessed" I told him that this was one of the happiest days of my life indeed it was only beaten by getting married and the birth of...

Sep 23, 2005 — LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a man under the terrorism act at Manchester airport on Friday morning after a struggle and were investigating a suspect package. "Police attempted to arrest the man who struggled with officers. A Taser gun was then used to detain the man," a spokeswoman for Manchester police said. An army bomb disposal unit was investigating a suspect package that was found and parts of terminals One and Two were closed, she said. Britain has been on high alert for more attacks ever since four suicide bombers blew themselves up on the...

MANCHESTER, Conn. -- This mistake was carved in stone, after a war monument in Manchester had 'Afghanistan' misspelled. It was missing an 'H." A new monument is being carved and is scheduled to be dedicated on Veterans Day on Nov. 11. An owner of Manchester Monument Company said that he will replace the stone for free even though his company didn't provide the monument. He said that he misspelled the word in a rough draft of the stone he sketched, but said he's not taking responsibility for the error because his company did not get the contract. The company that...

UNQUESTIONABLY, Alexander Hamilton was the most prescient of the Founding Fathers. While Adams mistrusted banks, and Jefferson and Madison conceptualized America as a nation of yeoman farmers, Hamilton embraced finance and industry. But Hamilton got it completely wrong when he predicted in Federalist No. 78 that the judiciary would be the “least dangerous” branch of government. With every new decision it issues, the U.S. Supreme Court looks less and less like a court of law and more and more like a supreme legislature. Its recent decision declaring the death penalty for minors unconstitutional — like its decisions on abortion, race,...

After last nights debate, President Bush was campaigning in Allentown Pennsylvania and later in Manchester N.H. and pointed out the many contradicting and false statements that passed through the heavily lipstick covered lips of his opponent in last nights debate ENJOY YOUR VISIT TO SANITY ISLAN