Friends say Juliet Obasuyi, 43, was worried Michael Adebowale was turning against the family and wanted him to have 'spiritual guidance' before he radicalised himself.
The Lady Helen sent out a mayday call just before 1pm saying it had run aground at Little Sound, part of Skomer Island off the Pembrokeshire coast and was taking on water.
Although the weekend got off to a soggy start yesterday with rain and gales, forecasters say we are in for a warm respite which will last until Monday.
Congressional investigators have published a series of internal BP memos which they say proves that the British company systematically and negligently put safety at risk on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in order to increase profits.
Uzbekistan last night closed its borders to refugees fleeing neighbouring Kyrgyzstan as the numbers killed in the ethnic violence spiralled and aid agencies reported fresh allegations of atrocities from the survivors.
Serbia took a significant step towards joining the EU after European foreign ministers relaxed demands for the alleged genocide fugitive Ratko Mladic to be arrested before allowing its membership application to proceed.
A French soldier patrolling a business area of western Paris was stabbed in the neck on Saturday by a man who quickly fled the scene and was still being sought, a police source said.
Britain will on Sunday make a fresh attempt to persuade the European Union to relax its arms embargo on Syrian rebels, after President Bashar al-Assad's forces looked set for a key battlefield victory that could turn the war in their favour.
A hospital in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore was directly in the tornado's path, but rather than life being lost, one was gained, reports Philip Sherwell
Billy Joel has blamed three highly-publicised car accidents on depression brought on by the Sept 11 terror attacks on his home city of New York, rather than on his well-known problems with alcohol.
Pepper Schwartz says with constant drumbeat of scandals in armed forces, the military must require education programs to teach men self control, address culture of sexual entitlement
Angelina Jolie, when writing about her preventive double mastectomy, did not discuss how much her surgeries cost, but she did mention that many women would not be able to afford the $3,000 to $4,000 test that led her to make the decision. What she failed to say was why the test costs so much.
A 15-year-old Utah boy was arrested in connection with the slayings of his two younger brothers, ages 4 and 10, who were apparently stabbed to death in their home, authorities said Thursday.
The organisers of an Arctic expedition in which a schoolboy was mauled to death by a polar bear will not face charges, Norweigian officials have confirmed.
Syrian opposition activists said that government forces and Hezbollah had intensified attacks in Qusayr, which faced the heaviest shelling since the battle had started, to allow Hezbollah to claim victory.
A number of arrests have been made, with criminal charges being leveled in some cases under laws against inciting racial or religious hatred following the death of an off-duty solider.
A recent wave of rapes in Rio de Janeiro has cast a spotlight on the conflicted attitudes toward women in a country where many hold positions of power.
