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Seven Irish Muslims arrested for conspiracy to assassinate Swedish cartoonist depicting Mohammed with the body of a dog

03/10/2010
Seven Irish Muslims arrested for conspiracy to assassinate Swedish cartoonist depicting Mohammed with the body of a dog

Seven Muslims were detained today in towns of Waterford and Cork, in south of Ireland, for allegedly planning a plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog.

French Junior Minister for Ecology Chantal Jouanno (left) and French singer Benjamin Biolay (right)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both rumoured to have affairs, French media reports say.

Venezuelan president mocks Hillary Clinton as "blond Condoleezza"

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez mocked U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday as a "blond" version of her predecessor.

Iraq counting votes after Sunday's parliamentary election

Iraqi authorities counted votes on Monday, a day after a parliamentary election in the Middle Eastern country. Preliminary results are expected in two or three days.

Enraged Briton kills exlover's mother, leaves message in blood and commits suicide

A Huddersfield man stabbed his ex-lover's mother to death as a revenge aimed at his ex-partner, left a message in blood behind and then lept to his death from a car park.

British helicopter pilot shot between the eyes by Taliban, manages to fly 20 to safety

A British Chinook helicopter pilot was shot between the eyes by a Taliban bullet, but still managed to fly on and saved all 20 aboard.

Child abuse at Pope Benedict's brother's choir and German schools

German Roman Catholic priests beat and sexually abused boys in at least three schools in Pope Benedict's native Bavaria state on Friday, one linked to a renowned choir led by his brother from 1964 to 1994.

Angelo Balducci

One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in the Vatican's St Peter's Basilica have allegedly been involved in an organized network of gay prostitution.

Live Aid charity concerts funded Ethiopian rebels

Millions of dollars of aid, from Western governments and charities, including Live Aid and Band Aid, intended to buy food for starving Ethiopians during the country's 1984 famine were misused by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation has found. A rebel leader claims that 95 per cent of the aid donated, US$95 million, was diverted into the rebel fight.


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