Month: May 2011

NASHVILLE, TENN.—A Muslim religious leader blames “racism and bias” after he and a colleague bound for a conference on Islamophobia were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis on Friday and told it was […] […]

The funnel cakes were definitely a hit. It was no surprise that plates of deep-fried dough sprinkled with white icing sugar became immensely popular at a festival attended by 25,000 pot enthusiasts who spent the […] […]

US-Yemeni cleric and terror suspect Anwar al-Awlaqi narrowly escaped a US drone attack last week according to a tribal source. The attack came just three days after American commandos killed Al-Qai’da chief Osama bin Laden. […] […]

THE Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks including six suicide bombings on government targets in the major southern Afghan city of Kandahar today, leaving at least 14 people wounded. Militants with guns and rocket-propelled grenades […] […]

UK journalist and newspaper Twitter feeds are set to be brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) later this year, the first time that it has sought to bring social media messages […] […]

FORMER Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has slammed the United States for violating Islamabad’s sovereignty in carrying out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a media report say. The former military strongman told the expatriate […] […]

SYRIA Syrian security forces open fire on thousands of protesters demanding an end to President Bashar Assad’s regime, killing more than 30 people in a sign that the authoritarian leader is prepared to ride out […] […]

BRITISH voters overwhelmingly rejected changing the electoral system, with 69 per cent opposing a switch to a new system in a national referendum, a BBC projection said today. Only 31 per cent supported the change […] […]

The MI5 spy agency and Britain’s emergency services were bracing for criticism last night as a judge prepared to hand down her verdict on the July 7, 2005, bombings in London. Heather Hallett, the coroner […] […]

THE hideout where Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos was under surveillance for months by a team of CIA spies who operated out of a nearby safe house in the Pakistani city of […] […]