Europe is facing a triple threat: AQIM, "al-Qaida Pakistan" and the lone jihadist. This makes counter-terrorist experts nervous that the likelihood of a successful attack on European soil in 2008 remains quite high.
Three Kassam rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel late Wednesday morning as the Security Cabinet was discussing the escalation in the Gaza Strip.
When developers were looking for a new "Street of Dreams" to market to Seattle's upscale homebuyers, they alighted on Woodinville, a peaceful wooded community in Snohomish County, about 25 miles north of the city. Today those dreams are in ruins!
UK - Muslim extremists should be banned from handing out literature and prevented from sitting on public bodies, David Cameron has said.
UK - The rise of violent crime was highlighted yesterday when it was revealed that children as young as eight have been caught with guns.
A new plan by a California lawmaker would allow schools to be used to promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, and let teachers in public district classrooms "inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism," according to a traditional values advocacy organization.
Racing between OPEC meetings in Vienna, Saudi Arabia's powerful oil minister Ali Al-Naimi told a reporter that the cartel was "determined" to keep the price of oil at around $25 a barrel, rather than risk a slump in the market by boosting its production. WAIT A MINUTE. $25?
BELGRADE - Serbia's parliament is likely to adopt a resolution within days calling for the country to reject all formal ties with the European Union until the bloc withdraws its support for Kosovo's independence.
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has cut supplies of gas to Ukraine again, and said further cuts may follow in the wake of a dispute over debts.
UK - The government's decision to change the rules for highly skilled immigrants is facing a challenge in the High Court.
Robots are already taken for granted in Japanese factories, so much so that they are sometimes welcomed on their first day at work with Shinto religious ceremonies. Robots make sushi. Robots plant rice and tend paddies.
UK - A final attempt by MPs to force a referendum on Europe will be made tomorrow when the Bill implementing the Lisbon Treaty reaches its crucial stage in the Commons.
BEIJING - China's government announced Tuesday it will increase defense spending by 17.6 percent in 2008, marking the 20th straight year of double- digit growth in its military budget.
The credit markets are seizing up and the uncertainty recently drove up short-term interest rates for municipalities and some rock-solid institutions such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art to 20%. And now even so-called prime borrowers are being sucked into defaults on their mortgages.
The turmoil in the world economy is hitting the French where it hurts this epicurean nation hardest - on their dinner tables.