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Cultures collide: Muslim immigrants will be expelled from Europe unless they reverse the growing perception of them as a social threat Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post Published: Friday, February 17, 2006 The Muslims refused to assimilate. They were expelled. This was the story in Europe 400...

ROME -- Italy's highest court ruled yesterday a man who raped the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend can seek to have his sentenced reduced on the mitigating circumstances that the girl was already sexually active, news reports said. The ruling provoked an outcry across Italy, was...

Prostitutes launch outreach to combat negative stereotypes of sex industry AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam’s famed red-light district held its first ever “open day” on Saturday as its peep-shows and brothels gave crowds of wide-eyed visitors free entry to help shed the area’s increasingly negative...

Move to profit from Benedict’s words draws mixed reactions from publishers VATICAN CITY - Royalties for Pope Benedict XVI’s writings and speeches? The Italian publishing world is aghast. The demand by the Vatican to respect copyright on the pontiff’s writings and pay for their use has...

Chavez tells Rice: ‘Don’t mess with me, girl’Leader responds to secretary of state calling Venezuela a ‘problem’ CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice not to “mess with” him days after Rice described Venezuela as a menace to...

Several people injured as protesters of cartoons unsuccessfully storm gates JAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, smashing the windows of a guard post but failing to push through the gates. Several...

By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer BASRA, Iraq - Glistening in Iraq's barren southern salt plains, a natural gas-driven power station has come on line, generating sorely needed electricity for war-weary Iraqis and demonstrating that much-maligned U.S.-led reconstruction efforts are...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned he could cut off oil exports to the United States if Washington goes "over the line" in what he has said are attempts to destabilize his left-leaning government. Chavez made his threat Friday, a day after U.S. Secretary of...

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...