'Tortured': Adam Foster, 30, claims he was forced to confess in Dubai. An American who claims he was tortured by police in Dubai after they found police handcuffs in his suitcase could be jailed for seven years, it emerged today. Adam Foster, 30, was returning home from the United Arab Emirates in February when officers pulled him up at an airport. They found police handcuffs in his luggage... 

Dressed in a orange jumpsuit and with his hands and legs shackled, Jewish cricket tycoon Sir Allen Stanford arrived at court today to face allegations he masterminded a £4.2billion fraud. Laywers for the Texas billionaire, 59, told a judge that he denied running a giant Ponzi scheme. But Dick DeGuerin, defending, revealed he had turned to alcohol to deal with the stress of the accusations. ‘Allen...