The head of private security giant G4S agreed under questioning by MPs Tuesday that the firm's failure to provide enough security guards for the Olympics was "a humiliating shambles".

The head of private security giant G4S is to face a grilling from MPs on Tuesday after the company failed to provide enough security guards for London's Olympic Games.

The head of private security giant G4S is to face a grilling from MPs on Tuesday after the company failed to provide enough security guards for London's Olympic Games.

Australia said on Tuesday it had begun to transition security responsibility for the restive Afghan province of Uruzgan to local forces, a process which is expected to take 12 to 18 months.

Taiwan is considering extending the runway on the contested Spratly island in a move that could provoke fresh tensions in the heavily disputed South China Sea, media reported on Sunday.

US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano held talks Thursday with Brazilian officials on beefing up aviation security and facilitating travel and trade between the two countries.

The Iraqi founder of an Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam is being prosecuted in Norway for inciting terrorist acts, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.

The United States is aware of a Russian naval flotilla headed for a Syrian port but does not yet see it as cause for concern, the White House said Tuesday.

The head of the powerful National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, said the US must adopt a law to protect the country from cyberattacks while insisting that it would respect privacy.

An Islamist terror suspect in Britain charged with breaking restrictions on his movements had crossed through London's Olympic Park five times, newspapers reported Sunday.

Fear is a factor keeping more Sudanese from joining unprecedented demonstrations against a regime relying on an extensive internal security network for control, activists and others say.

Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences over the past week after police stopped a car containing firearms and offensive weapons, police said Friday.

Canada's top diplomat said Friday he was "concerned" over Sudan's crackdown on anti-regime demonstrations sparked by inflation, and the arrests of journalists.

Sudanese police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters on Friday, the 14th day of anti-regime demonstrations sparked by inflation, witnesses said.

Armed security agents on Friday raided the AFP bureau in Khartoum and arrested a part-time correspondent who had taken pictures of an anti-regime protest.

Nigeria's new national security advisor has called for dialogue to end an Islamist insurgency, during a visit to two northeastern cities hard hit by the violence.

The Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip on Thursday presented a video documentary in which alleged Palestinian collaborators with Israel confess having aided the killings of senior Hamas and Fatah members.

Twenty-four Ethiopians, including a leading opposition figure and a prominent journalist, faced life in prison Wednesday after a court found them guilty on charges of terrorism.

A correspondent for the international news wire Bloomberg was deported by Sudanese authorities on Tuesday, following her detention while trying to cover the country's widening protest movement.

Jimmy Wales, creator of online giant Wikipedia, launched a petition on Sunday against the extradition to the United States of a British student accused of copyright infringement.