Despite warnings from White House and Gen Petraeus in Afghanistan, Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center said he plans to go forward with the burning on Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of 9/11.
“Maybe they will try to kill me and maybe they will have success, but they cannot kill the cartoon,” Kurt Westergaard told reporters at an event in Potsdam, near Berlin, attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Britain’s outspoken Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Sherard Cowper-Coles has quit his post following a reported clash with NATO and US officials on fighting the Taliban.
A 16-year-old British schoolgirl, who became the country’s youngest female after killing her alcoholic father and a woman companion, was today sentenced to life imprisonment.
The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July.
The billionaire philanthropist is putting up $100 million, one of the largest donations of its kind, to expand Human Rights Watch and help it court more international support.
An Indonesian volcano shot a towering cloud of black ash high into the air Tuesday, dusting villages 15 miles (25 kilometers) away in its most powerful eruption since awakening last week from four centuries of dormancy.
Hollywood star and UNHCR goodwill ambassador, Angelina Jolie, visited a flood victims’ camp at Nowshera in Pakistan’s northwest on Tuesday.
About 400 same-sex couples have wed in Mexico, six months after the law permitting gay marriage came into effect, authorities said on Monday.
All 28 people detained as suspects in connection with the lynching of two young brothers in the Pakistani city of Sialkot have been arrested following the detention of three policemen, including the head of a police station who had tried to evade the authorities.