Belgium shuts down its metro and raises the terror alert to its highest level because of a 'threat of an attack ... in the capital'

Belgium raised its terror alert to the highest level in the capital Brussels on Saturday, also shutting down the metro and warning the pubic to avoid crowds.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Saturday said the decision to raise the terror threat level in the capital Brussels to the highest possible mark was linked to a threat of imminent attacks.

"This was due to a threat of an attack by individuals with explosives and weapons at several locations in the capital," Michel told a news briefing in Brussels.

Brave bride marries her lover just days after being told she is dying from cancer

Wish: Lorraine Green has married her partner a year early after being diagnosed with cancer

A bride has fulfilled her dying wish by tying the knot just days after being told she has weeks to live.

Brave Lorraine Marsh had planned to wed her partner Shane Green next summer but the service was rushed forward after the 53-year-old was told she had terminal cancer.

Lorraine had gone to her doctors last Friday with what she thought was gallstones, but was stunned to be told she had pancreatic cancer that had spread to her liver.

After fearing she would not have enough time left to marry 54-year-old Shane, friends and family rallied around to donate £2,300 to the couple and even gave Lorraine a wedding dress so they could bring the service forward.

American woman killed in Mali hotel attack

An American woman who died in the Mali terror attack at Radisson Blu hotel yesterday has been identified as Anita Datar. The 41-year-old was born in western Massachusetts and grew up in northern New Jersey. She graduated from Columbia University's Joseph Mailman School of International and Public Health and served two years in the Peace Corps in Senegal.

Chilling footage shows teen killer stalking maths teacher through school halls 'before raping and murdering her'

Haunting footage of a maths teacher's final moments before she was raped and killed show her alleged murderer following her down a school corridor.

The body of Colleen Ritzer, 24, was found dumped in woods behind Danvers High School in Massachusetts in October 2013.

Student Philip Chism, 16, is standing trial charged with rape, murder and robbery.

He is accused of twice sexually assaulting his maths teacher before slashing her throat with a box cutter.

He is later said to have bought a Wendy's meal with the dead teacher's credit card.

Police pay compensation to 7 women led into 'abusive' and 'deceitful' relationships with undercover officers

Living a lie: Bob Lambert and the son he fathered while spying on his mother

Scotland Yard apologised to seven women who were deceived into "abusive, deceitful, manipulative and wrong" relationships with undercover police officers.

The Metropolitan Police said it has reached a settlement with the women over civil claims relating to the "totally unacceptable" behaviour of a number of officers working for two now disbanded units.

Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewit said: "I acknowledge that these relationships were a violation of the women's human rights, an abuse of police power and caused significant trauma.

"I unreservedly apologise on behalf of the Metropolitan Police Service. I am aware that money alone cannot compensate the loss of time, their hurt or the feelings of abuse caused by these relationships."

A woman who had a child with a man she did not know was an undercover copbanked £425,000 from the Metropolitan Police.

Breaking Live Mali Radisson hotel sieg ( Live updates as gunfire and explosions heard during 'hostage situation')

Terror organisation carried out hotel massacre months ago

The Macina Liberation Front emerged in central Mali recently and has claimed responsibility for the attack in August in Sevare that killed 13 people.

There is growing speculation that MLF represents the new Boko Haram - the Islamist insurgent in Nigeria.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack however.

Houston toddler burned to death playing in oven while left home alone with her other young siblings: police

A 19-month-old Houston girl was burned to death by an oven when the toddler’s mother and her mom’s boyfriend left three children home alone, police said.

A juvenile court judge ordered the two other children and another one of their siblings, aged 3, 3, and 5, into foster homes Wednesday in a custody hearing a day after J’zyra Thomspon died, Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Estella Olguin told the Daily News.

No one from J’zyra’s family showed up for the hearing, Olguin said. Efforts to contact her relatives were unsuccessful.