Tom Porter

Reporter

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Tom reports on domestic and foreign affairs for IBTimes UK. His interests include Russia, crime and security. Previously Tom worked at the BBC and the East London Guardian.

A British Army virtual reality combat simulation. (Getty)

British Army's new 77th Brigade will wage online PSYOP war with terrorists

Move comes after online propaganda campaigns by Isis and Russia.

Benedict Cumberbatch and family of Alan Turing petition for convicted gay men to be pardoned

Calls follow royal pardon for mathematician Turing, recently portrayed by Cumberbatch in the Imitation Game.

'Arm officers with tasers' demands UK police union after terrorist threat level raised

Terrorists are allegedly plotting to attack police on UK shores.

Putin nationalist calls for Austria to be incorporated into Russia dominated 'Eurasian empire'

The philosopher and Kremlin insider Alexander Dugin argues that nation states will dissolve and a 'Eurasian empire' will arise to rival the West.

Hip hop mogul Suge Knight: charged with murder. (Reuters)

Suge Knight: Rap mogul charged with murder for alleged hit and run homicide in Los Angeles

Bail is set at $2m after Knight handed himself in to police when his truck ran over two men, killing one.

Professor Steven Salaita, who was sacked after tweeting remarks critical of Israel. (Getty)

US professor Steven Salaita sues university for sacking him over anti-Israel remarks

Professor Salaita claims the decision violates his right to free speech.

Tikhonova takes part in a 'boogie woogie' dancing competition.

Has Vladimir Putin's daughter been outed as rock 'n' roll dancer in charge of $1.7bn project?

Until now, a veil of secrecy has been placed over the lives of the Russian president's daughters.

Suge Knight hands himself into police after alleged hit and run homicide by rap mogul

Knight is said to have run over two men on the set of NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, killing one.

Rescued Syrian refugees arrive in Palermo, Italy, on board an Italian coast guard boat. (Getty)

Isis militants travel to Europe disguised as Syrian refugees

Source claims that scores of militants have travelled to Europe on board boats carrying refugees.

Pegida: Anti-Islam group to hold first Spanish rally 'possibly in Catalonia'

Far-right group's general secretary reveals rally details, with the German events attracting up to 25,000.

Mikeal Shane Pruett jailed for 200 years after raping and impregnating 11-year-old granddaughter

'You seem to lack any semblance of a conscience,' said judge Jeffrey Langton ruling in Montana, US.

Europeans demand pick up artist Julien Blanc is banned for inciting violence against women

Blanc is already banned from the UK, Australia, and Singapore, after he was filmed grabbing women by the throat.

The winning design of the float, as chosen by the Cologne public.

Cologne's Rosenmontag carnival organisers scrap plans for Charlie Hebdo float over security fears

festival organisers say they want everyone to be able to enjoy the day in safety.

A Beijing courthouse. Following a spate of suicides, China has launched an investigation. (Getty)

China's communists investigate suicide surge amid anti-corruption probes

Communist Party quizzes cadres over unnatural deaths.

Helicopter loaded with marijuana crashes into electricity pylon in Spain after police chase

Two badly damaged bodies were recovered from the wreckage.

Isis commander in Pakistan 'claims Islamic State funding routed through the US'

Yousaf al-Salafi allegedly claimed that funding was being routed through the US to recruit Isis fighters for Syria.

Activists destroy the Berlin Wall, dividing East and West Germany in 1989. (Reuters)

Russian parliament considers condemning 'annexation' of East Germany in 1989.

Move follows condemnation of Russian annexation of Ukraine by PACE.

Euro 2016 organising committee president Jacques Lambert, who has warned of the terror threat in the wake of the recent attacks in Paris. (Getty)

Threat of terror attack at Euro 2016 'palpable' says French football chief Jacques Lambert

Lambert says the recent terror attacks in Paris, risk of strikes is no longer merely 'theoretical'.

Activists in Rio de Janeiro protest against the Catholic Church's alleged homophobia. (Reuters)

Toulon: French Catholic group buys local gay bar to transform it into religious meetings venue

'The bar of Sodom will become the bar of mercy', the group said.

Densely packed network of 'hutong', or alleyways, in Beijing (Getty)

Chinese politician's illegally built basement collapses historic Beijing homes

The basement was allegedly constructed without planning permission or architectural plan.

Mattias Karlsson's of the far-right Sweden Democrats (Getty)

'Islamism poses greater threat than Nazis did' claims Swedish far-right politician

Sweden Democrat Mattias Karlsson's remarks drew condemnation from Jewish and Muslim groups.

Anti-goverment protesters help an injured demonstrator in Cairo. (Reuters)

15 killed in Egypt protests on 4th anniversary of Arab Spring

Breaking: Thousands attended funeral procession for female activist allegedly shot dead by police yesterday.

US child abuser Jacky Berry sentenced to 15 years after impregnating 11-year-old

Berry, of Niagra Falls, previously served eight years in jail for abusing 7-year-old girl.

British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford could be next foreigner to face Indonesian firing squad

Sandiford, who was convicted in 2012, and says she was asked to sign execution documents last week.

Widowed Isis members could form army of 'black widow' suicide bombers

Study warns of the danger posed by women whose Isis militants husbands have been killed in coalition airstrikes.

Prison authorities will be given greater powers to fight the use of so-called legal highs. (NHS)

Prisons handed new powers to combat surging use of 'legal highs' by inmates

Use of substances believed to be behind increasing violence and attacks on prison staff in jails.

An artists impression of the New Horizons space probe, which will begin photographing Pluto today. (Reuters)

Nasa spacecraft New Horizons nears final leg of historic nine year mission to Pluto

The probe has travelled three billion miles, and will begin sending back images of dwarf planet on Sunday.

Still from the film, showing a reporter being attacked and subjected to antisemitic abuse while taking part in a TV experiment testing attitudes to Jews in malmo, Sweden.

Reporter wearing Jewish kippah attacked in Swedish city in antisemitism experiment

Journalist was insulted and assaulted before fleeing after experiment to test attitudes to Jews in Malmö.

Dalton Hayes, charged with the statutory rape of 13-year-old girl who was alleged accomplice in a two week long crime spree.

'Bonnie and Clyde' couple: Dalton Hayes charged with statutory rape

Hayes claims he was not aware that the girl who he allegedly went on crime spree with was only 13

A vising room in a Chinese jail. A prisoner in Heilongjiang province allegedly forced women to meet him in jail after blackmailing them with naked pictures. (Getty)

Chinese prisoner uses app to film women naked and blackmail them

Wife of prison guard was allegedly one of his victims, and had sex with man in prison