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"Cairo seeks the arrest of seven US-based Egyptian Copts and Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones, over a film that sparked widespread Muslim protests" BBC News - Egypt orders arrest of US-based Copts over film

WASHINGTON (AP) — Coalition military authorities in Afghanistan say the insurgents who attacked a British airfield in southwestern Afghanistan on Friday, killing two U.S. Marines, wore U.S. Army uniforms and destroyed six Harrier fighter jets. They said in a statement Saturday that about 15...

BBC Mitt Romney has defended his criticism of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, as new US polls suggest the president is ahead with voters. In an interview with ABC News, Mr Romney described as "inappropriate" a US embassy response to an anti-Islam film which sparked protests...

BBC NBC has defended its decision to interview a reality TV star instead of observing a moment of silence marking the 11th anniversary of 9/11. While other networks aired live silent footage of memorial events, NBC's Today show aired a segment with Kris Jenner from Keeping Up With The...

BBC The US ambassador to Libya is among four Americans killed in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, President Barack Obama has confirmed. Unidentified armed men stormed the grounds on Tuesday night in a protest over a US-produced film that is said to...

Al-Qaeda's 'Emir of Sahara' Makhloufi dies in Mali BBC News - Al-Qaeda's 'Emir of Sahara' Makhloufi dies in Mali and Yemen 'kills key al-Qaeda leader Said al-Shihri' BBC News - Yemen 'kills key al-Qaeda leader Said al-Shihri'

Now bear with me .... I was really bored last night ........ so I watched a bit of the Dems conference <shock, horror, gasp> LOL. I personally had an interest on how Romney would conduct himself abroad - and was dumbfounded at some of the stuff that he said, which of course was brought up...

This is interesting IMO ... BBC News - Thomas Beatie: My struggle to get pregnant

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide a taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder. U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in the case of Michelle Kosilek, who was born as a man but has received...

The Diocese of Charleston in the US state of South Carolina has implemented a comprehensive social media strategy in the hope of attracting young people to the seminary, primarily targeting users of Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. Led by Rev Jeffrey Kirby, vicar of vocations for the...

BBC Tony Blair and George W Bush should be taken to the International Criminal Court in The Hague over the Iraq war, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said. Writing in the UK's Observer newspaper, he accused the former leaders of lying about weapons of mass destruction. The Iraq military...

BBC The company which invented thalidomide has "insulted" those affected by the drug by issuing an "insincere" apology, campaigners have said. The drug, sold in the 1950s as a cure for morning sickness, was linked to birth defects and withdrawn in 1961. German-based Gruenenthal has...

BBC Breaking News. Italian cardinal and progressive Catholic Carlo Maria Martini has described the Roman Catholic Church as being "200 years behind" the times. The cardinal died on Friday, aged 85. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has published his last interview, recorded last...

Now why would a politician say one thing and mean another :rolleyes: LOL BBC Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan has come under fire for alleged inaccuracies during his convention debut in Tampa, Florida. Mr Ryan attacked the president for making cuts to the Medicare...

Granted that this happened in the UK, but I know that the same sort of thing has happened here Compare and contrast Burn Remembrance poppies, and shout 'British soldiers burn in hell' - fine of £50 plus £15 costs. Write Allah on a pigs head, stick it outside a mosque, write 'Rag Heads...

Disgusting behaviour !! BBC Two attendees were ejected from Republican National Convention on Tuesday for throwing nuts at a black CNN camerawoman. The individuals told her "this is how we feed animals" as they threw the nuts, multiple witness said. Convention security and police...

Interesting article .... IMO of course lol BBC Video - BBC News - The curious allure of child preachers The curious allure of child preachers An 11-year-old boy in the US has been ordained as a minister in his family's church, and also preaches at a number of local churches. He is...

BBC A group of American soldiers formed an anarchist militia and plotted to overthrow the United States government, a court in Georgia has heard. The allegations emerged in a murder case against four soldiers accused of belonging to the group. Prosecutors say the men formed a militia...

AFP French prosecutors have opened a murder enquiry into Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's 2004 death near Paris following claims he may have died of polonium poisoning, sources close to the matter told AFP Tuesday. The probe comes after Arafat's family launched legal action in France...

BBC American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh has testified in a federal court that restrictions on group prayer for Muslim prisoners are "absurd". Lindh has joined a legal challenge filed by two other Muslim prisoners to a ban on daily group prayers at the federal prison in Terre...