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Schools are allowing Muslim families to withdraw their children from music lessons because learning an instrument is forbidden according to some Islamic beliefs. Hundreds of pupils are thought to have been removed from state school […] […]

AN Indonesian film about Barack Obama’s childhood days in Jakarta has debuted, promising a very different perspective on the man in the White House. Obama Anak Menteng, or Obama the Menteng Kid, is set in […] […]

Speaking from Havana overnight Elian, now 16, said he was not angry at his Miami relatives who fought to keep him in the US when he was a five-year-old refugee. His rare comments came after […] […]

Lauri Price says she ‘never would have come to Canada’ if she had known Barrie teen’s real age The headlines were salacious — “Texas mom ‘groomed’ Barrie teen;” “Houston mom accused of soliciting sex to […] […]

SAN DIEGO – An immigration judge tentatively granted asylum yesterday to the son of a Hamas founder who turned his back on his father’s terrorist group and became a spy for Israel. The ruling came […] […]

Prank turns serious for British filmmaker For Charlie Veitch, it was a joke. For the Toronto police, it was no laughing matter. In one of the more unusual G20-related arrests to have occurred following the […] […]

RACISM FEARS are causing many black people to rule out careers in certain professions, a survey in the United Kingdom has shown. The survey from the organisation Race For Opportunity revealed that, despite having higher […] […]

MEMBERS of the media are now camped out at the Greater Portmore police station where popular dancehall deejay Vybz Kartel is expected to this morning turn himself over to police. The controversial entertainer, who was […] […]

THE US State Department has commended Jamaica for what it described as the swift and safe handover of alleged drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke last Thursday, just hours after he waived his right to an […] […]

THE United States Embassy was not in a position to accommodate former fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, even if the Rev Merrick ‘Al’ Miller had succeeded in his mission to take him there, senior police officials […] […]