London, July 22: British airports are at risk of terrorist attack from a “threat within,” a report by a former bureaucrat will warn today.

The alert is raised in a security review by former civil servant Stephen Boys Smith.

He demands a crackdown on thousands of people working in shops, cafes and baggage depots.

An insider said: “It is possible they can have a criminal past in another country that is not picked up.”

Experts claim that hundreds of foreign workers with a criminal past may have landed airside jobs.

British staff and pilots undergo rigorous checks, but offences committed overseas often go unchecked, The Sun reported.

London, July 22: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai are to sign an agreement to end the country’s political deadlock.

The handshake, which came despite the killing of more than 100 opposition supporters during the country’s election this year, followed the signing of an agreement for talks on the way forward, The Telegraph reported.

The room at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare shook with laughter as the two men, along with the South African President Thabo Mbeki, joked with each other.

Tsvangirai said it was “a very historic occasion” while Mugabe said it was time to chart a “new way” forward.

London, July 22 : Man may soon return to the moon, with the focus being to establish a permanent presence there, using it as a training platform for missions to Mars and beyond.

According to a report in The Daily Telegraph, NASA officials and scientists have said that the proposed return to the lunar surface could happen in the decade after NASA retires the space shuttle in 2010 and begins flying a new generation of rocket booster.

“We’re going back, and this time we’re going to stay,” said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA Ames Research Center. “This is the first step in settling the solar system,” he added.

Athens - A 20-year-old British woman was detained by Greek police on Monday on suspicion of strangling her newborn child in a hotel room on the holiday island of Crete, reports said.

Reports said the incident occurred in the woman's hotel room at the northern coastal resort town of Malia. Hotel staff had reportedly rushed the woman to a hospital to receive treatment for heavy bleeding after giving birth to the baby in her room.

British Embassy officials in Athens said the woman, who has not been named, will be charged over the death of her baby but first must appear before a public prosecutor.

London, July 21 : A former driver of al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden has pleaded not guilty to charges at the first war crimes trial to be held at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility run by the United States.

Yemeni national Salim Hamdan, 37, has been accused of conspiracy and supporting terrorism, and faces life in prison if he is convicted. Hamdan has been in custody for nearly six years

About 270 suspects still remain in detention in Guantanamo Bay.

London, July 21 : The over-stretched and under-manned British Army is all set to spread its wings to enrol more Caribbean youngsters.

Now chiefs are planning to send recruiters to Jamaica for new talent. They want other Caribbean youngsters to follow in the footsteps of Victoria Cross winner Lt Cpl Johnson Beharry, who joined up from Grenada.

The armed forces are on their way to the home of reggae to entice new squaddies to sign up in wake of operations in war ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan.