Two Muslim women have become the first passengers to refuse to subject themselves to controversial “nude” full body airport scans in Britain. The pair – who security officials insist were selected at random – opted to miss their flight to Pakistan and forfeit tickets worth $670 each. One of the women refused to go through the full-body scanner at Manchester Airport on religious grounds, while her companion declined for “medical reasons”.

BBC television presenter Kristian Digby, from To Buy or Not To Buy, was found dead in his east London flat at about 7:45 Monday morning, according to police. They say that he was pronounced by ambulance services as dead at the scene upon their arrival, and they are describing the circumstances surrounding his death as unexplained.

Iran and Turkey signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish joint industrial estate on the border of the two countries, the state IRIB TV reported on Tuesday.The MOU was signed by Iran’s Small-Scale Industries and Industrial Estates Organization Director Khodamorad Ahmadi and Turkey’s Artisanship and Small Industrial Sites General Director Ramazan Yildirim in the first joint meeting of the expert working groups of the Islamic republic and Turkey in Tehran on Monday.

A young British teacher was found dead after she claimed her ex-boyfriend posted naked pictures of her on Facebook, according to reports. Emma Jones was living and working at an international school in Abu Dhabi and allegedly feared that police in the Muslim country would arrest her over the photos.

Last night, Dubai police were searching for another six people alleged to have been involved in the sensational assassination of top Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhoub last month. The new search has brought the number of people, widely suspected to have been working for Israel's security agency Mossad, involved in the killing to 17. Six of the 11 suspects already identified by police were carrying fake British passports, a disclosure which has sparked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

British government sources dismiss as “nonsense” any advance foreknowledge about a Mossad plan to assassinate a top official of Hamas in Dubai last month. A member of the Israeli intelligence service claimed earlier that MI6 and the British Foreign Office were tipped off that Mossad agents were going to carry out an ‘overseas operation’ using fake British passports.

The partner of the father of two children who died of carbon monoxide poisoning on a Thomas Cook holiday in Corfu told a Greek court she believed the operator had a duty of care to its customers. Ruth Beatson was on holiday with Neil Shepherd and his children Christianne, seven, and Robert, six, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, when a faulty boiler leaked gas into their Corfu bungalow in October 2006.

The fragile Pakistani government of Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and President Asaf Ali Zardari was deeply embarrassed Wednesday when a massive bombing killed 3 US soldiers on the ground in that country. The Pakistani public has been increasingly upset about US military and para-military (Blackwater/ Xe) actions in their country. On Tuesday, several US drone strikes killed a total of 29 persons.