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By Fareed Zakaria Tuesday, February 14, 2006; Page A15 Cartoons and riots made the headlines in Europe last week, but a far less fiery event, the publication of an academic study, may shed greater light on the future of the continent. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...

WASHINGTON: The American Jewish Committee has come out against the publication of blasphemous cartoons commissioned by a Danish newspaper last year and republished by several European and other newspapers in the last couple of week after protests erupted across Muslim countries. In a statement...

A Danish paper publishes a cartoon that mocks Muslims. An Iranian paper responds with a Holocaust cartoons contest - - Now a group of Israelis announce their own anti-Semitic cartoons contest! Eyal Zusman (30, back from anonymity) and Amitai Sandy (29), graphic artist and publisher of Dimona...

Italian minister puts Mohammad cartoon on T-shirts By Crispian Balmer | February 14, 2006 ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Reform Minister Roberto Calderoli has had T-shirts made emblazoned with cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a move that could embarrass Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's...

February 03, 2006 Muslim Outrage Muslim outrage huh. OK ... let's do a little historical review. Just some lowlights: * Muslims fly commercial airliners into buildings in New York City. No Muslim outrage. * Muslim officials block the exit where school girls are trying to escape a burning...

ATHENS (AFP) - Greek archaeologists excavating an ancient Macedonian city in the foothills of Mount Olympus have uncovered a 2,600-metre defensive wall whose design was "inspired by the glories of Alexander the Great," the site supervisor said Thursday. Built into the wall were dozens of...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A Pakistani cleric announced a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad. In Libya, a demonstration against the caricatures left the Italian consulate on fire and at least nine people dead, according to an Italian diplomat. Denmark, where a...

NYC Muslim Group Warns U.S.: 'Your Days are Numbered' By Erick Stakelbeck Washington Terror Analyst CBN.com – NEW YORK CITY - So far, the violent riots that have erupted throughout the Muslim world over the Mohammed cartoons have not been repeated here in the U.S. But yesterday in...

The origins of the Great War of 2007 - and how it could have been prevented By Niall Ferguson (Filed: 15/01/2006) Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East: With...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Friday Moscow would supply military hardware to the Palestinian Authority only if Israel agreed. Plans to sell the Palestinian Authority 50 armored personnel carriers (APCs) were put on hold since last September. But...

By IRA STOLL February 13, 2006 Khaled Abu Toameh used to work for a Palestine Liberation Organization newspaper. Now he writes for the Jerusalem Post and for Mortimer Zuckerman's U.S. News & World Report, and he's so critical of the PLO that two pro-Israel advocacy groups, StandWithUs and...

Defector claims women were accused of revealing their experience in South SEOUL, South Korea - Some North Korean cheerleaders who took part in athletic events in the South have been jailed at a prison camp after returning home, a survivor of another camp said on Friday, quoting recent defectors...

Prehistoric artifact offers rare glimpse at early Neolithic life THESSALONIKI, Greece - A Greek hiker found a 6,500-year-old gold pendant in a field and handed it over to authorities, an archaeologist said Thursday. The flat, roughly ring-shaped prehistoric pendant probably had religious...

23 confirmed dead; Red Cross estimates 1,500 missing on Leyte island MANILA, Philippines - Hundreds of villagers were feared dead after a rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in the eastern Philippines on Friday...

OSLO (Reuters) - Backers of the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol renewed their pleas to the United States on Thursday to do more to fight global warming, even though their own records are patchy in the year since the pact went into force. Many experts said that time to slow a rise in temperatures widely...

U.S. politicians call for formal softwood talks Updated Tue. Feb. 14 2006 11:34 PM ET Canadian Press WASHINGTON — Americans are calling on Canada to finally sit down for formal talks on softwood lumber, saying they hope it'll be the first order of bilateral business for the new Conservative...

DAKAR, Senegal (Reuters) - Maria Victoria Correa is a Catholic but she keeps a prayer mat in her house for Muslim visitors, one of the everyday kindnesses which underpin Senegal's religious tolerance. At a time when cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have triggered violent protests in several...

High school junior says he wanted to ‘put a smile’ on the girls’ faces WESTON, Fla. - If any female juniors at Cypress Bay High School weren’t aware of classmate Paul Kim — they know him now. The 17-year-old junior ordered 500 red roses and had them delivered to nearly all his female...

Number has quadrupled since 2003, officials say The National Counterterrorism Center maintains a central repository of 325,000 names of alleged international terrorism suspects or people who aid them, a number that has more than quadrupled since the fall of 2003, according to counterterrorism...

NEW YORK - Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the United States it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported Wednesday, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet. One of Saddam's son-in-laws also...