Pastor Terry Jones, of the Dove World Outreach Center Interpol today warned its 188 member countries that there may be a higher threat of terrorism if a Florida fringe pastor burns Korans on Saturday as planned. “One of INTERPOL’s primary functions is to prevent crime, and given that we have been made aware of a significant threat to public safety – an assessment which we share –... 

The president was elated over the outcome of the vote Protesters burnt an effigy of President Mahinda Rajapaksa Sri Lankan MPs have approved proposals to let President Mahinda Rajapaksa seek an unlimited number of terms, in a move critics say could lead to dictatorship. The constitutional amendment also hugely boosts the president’s powers. Amid protest and counter-protest in the capital Colombo,... 

Jens John raising a variation of the German flag in his garden in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany. A truck driver, Mr. John has often been without work in the economic downturn. As a youth in the 1950s, the film director Volker Schlöndorff tried to hide his German origins by learning to speak unaccented French. This summer, his daughter painted German flags on her cheeks and joined crowds of thousands... 

From left to right, Glenna Legarda, Erlyn Umpad and Monette Salaysay, relatives of the victims of the Maguindanao massacre, arrived at the courtroom. The clan accused of orchestrating the Philippines’ worst political massacre — also considered the single worst killing of journalists on record — plotted the attack over a family dinner, a longtime housekeeper testified Wednesday at the start of... 

While many European Catholic bishops often defend the rights of Muslims to worship publicly others are more keen to protect the Christian heritage of their continent. European Christians must have more children or face the prospect of the continent becoming Islamised, a senior Vatican official has said. Italian Father Piero Gheddo said that the low birth rate among indigenous Europeans combined with... 

The last major U.S. factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs will soon be closing. When it does, the remaining 200 workers at the Winchester, Va., plant, about 70 miles west of Washington, D.C., will lose their jobs, marking a small, sad exit for a product that began with Thomas Alva Edison's innovations in the 1870s. The last major GE factory making ordinary incandescent light bulbs in... 

Is this a beginning of a growing trend? Should we eventually find this happening everywhere? It is definitely unbelievable. A Christian Nation cannot put up a Christmas scene of the baby Jesus in a public places because it “offends” religious minorities, but the Muslims can stop normal traffic every Friday afternoon by worshiping in the streets and all with the Police’s approval…... 

In the wake of the battle over a mosque at Ground Zero, a move by the Hartford City Council is sure to have its critics. The Council announced Tuesday that it has invited local imams to perform Islamic invocations at the beginning of the Council meetings in September. An e-mail from the Common Council called it “an act of solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters.” The email even... 

The first peek at the next-generation AMD graphics offerings. AMD will be back on the GPU offensive this fall with new offerings. According to DigiTimes, Radeon HD 6000-series will launch first with the HD 6700, which will replace the market currently occupied by the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750. They will probably hit the stores starting with November 2010. While AMD’s exact launch plans are still... 

Swedish TV channel TV4 announced on Friday that it has refused to broadcast a campaign advert by the far-right Sweden Democrats because it claims it contains racial hatred. The party wanted to pay the channel 1.5 million kronor ($201,240) to run the ad. The half-minute advert shows a race in which an elderly woman with a walker is chased by a group of burqa-clad women pushing prams with a slogan promising... 

Youths trying to extinguish a fire near the Jewish West bank settlement of Har Bracha on Monday July 26, 2010. ‘Idea is not to make Wikipedia rightist but for it to include our point of view,’ Naftali Bennett, director of the Yesha Council says. “Point of view” in Wikipedia? But encyclopedias were supposed to be neutral… For years now, Wikipedia has been a fierce battleground... 

Rustem Adagamov is Russia's most popular blogger. When he writes about demonstrations by the political opposition and "unparalleled police brutality," he reaches more readers than many daily newspapers in Moscow do. As Adagamov sees it, "The Internet is the last free territory -- but it won't stay that way for long." With so many of their media sources controlled by the... 

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” says the US Constitution. Back in 2009, a Jewish retired art teacher from Baldwin was simply ordered to clean his yard and... 

Poverty has a far greater influence on the performance of white British pupils at school than any other ethnic group, according to research published today. Figures show a 31 percentage point gap between rich and poor white British pupils obtaining five A* to C grade passes at GCSE compared with just five percentage points for Chinese pupils and seven percentage points for Bangladeshi youngsters. The... 

The national battle over the government’s inability to stem the tide of illegal immigrants got personal Friday in a federal courtroom. U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra bristled at the suggestion that the government’s time would be better spent keeping illegal immigrants from entering the country than prosecuting a suburban West Palm Beach man for hiring them. Business people such...