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World football’s governing body FIFA has fined the Argentine Football Association after the national football team held up a banner claiming that the disputed Falkland Islands belong to Argentina before one of their matches in the run-up to recent World

A child sex abuse trial in Britain collapsed after the judge “fell asleep” as an alleged victim was giving evidence. Record Philip Cattan, a barrister who sits as a part-time judge, “nodded off” as the girl, who was under 16

A TV host in Jordan burned a paper Israeli flag live on air during a discussion on the ongoing Gaza campaign. In a clip posted to YouTube by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Zoher Al-Azzeh burned the flag

An Australian Jihadist fighting with ISIS in Syria has appeared in sickening images posing with severed heads. Sydney-born Mohamed Elomar casually held up the two heads in photos that were posted on Twitter by his friend, convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf.

British Muslims have launched an official petition to ask parliament to debate banning the burka. If 100,000 people sign, the House of Commons will be obliged to hold a debate on whether Britain should introduce a French-style ban on full-face

A UN-backed conference on climate change ended with a call to end capitalism. The conference, organised by the Venezuelan government, saw 130 green activist groups meet to discuss their demands. Green website Respond to Climate Change says that at the

The Red Arrow aerial display team added red smoke to their fly-past at last night’s Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in what will appear to some to be a show of support of the Union. According to the official media guide

A Christian man in Iran has been sentenced to have his lips burnt with a cigarette for eating during the day in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The punishment was carried out in public in the city of Kermanshah.

Greenpeace is in turmoil after more than 40 staff signed a letter calling two of the group’s most senior officials to resign. The group faced ridicule last month after it emerged that Husting chose to regularly fly between his home

A study has found that people who were brought up under a communist regime were more likely to lie and cheat and those who were raised under capitalism. The Economist reports that research by Duke University and the University of

One of the Church of England’s most senior officials has said that women will be favoured over men when the church appoints new bishops. The Telegraph reports that William Fittall, the Secretary General to the General Synod, told parliament’s Ecclesiastical

Nearly 140,000 women in Britain are believed to be living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a practice that involves cutting, or in some cases total removal of, a woman’s genitalia. According to a report by City University

A male nurse who fantasised about killing and eating a teenage girl has been convicted for sexual grooming. Dale Bolinger, 58, from south east England, bought an axe the day before he planned to meet his intended victim. The BBC

Huge levels of EU immigration to the UK are putting a squeeze on school places and social housing while also pushing up house prices, according to government review. The Home Office’s report into how the European Union’s freedom of movement

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that “evidence-tampering on an industrial scale” is taking place at the MH17 crash site, accusing pro-Russian rebels of attempting a “cover-up”. Speaking after the success of an Australian UN resolution calling a full

The British television channel behind a controversial documentary on benefits claimants is to film a new show on immigrants, which looks set to anger even more people. Focussing on the residents of one British street, the Channel 4 documentary, it

The UK-based Independent newspaper has published a pro-conspiracy theory article that links the capture and killing of three Israeli students to an attempt by ISIS to distract attention from its ongoing offensive in Iraq and Syria. Using a picture of the

Britain’s newly-appointed Defence Secretary accused Vladimir Putin of “sponsoring terrorism” and told him to “get out of Ukraine”, in one of the most outspoken responses to the MH17 crash from any Western politician. Michael Fallon said that Putin must be

Mosul’s remaining Christians were fleeing the city yesterday after the brutal ISIS occupiers told them to convert to Islam or face summary execution. In a statement read out at the city’s mosques, the Islamists told Christians that they had until

The mother of Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has admitting trying to abort him while she was pregnant. Dolores Aveiro said that when he doctor refused to allow her to have to procedure, she resorted to home recipes such as

A group of Islamist fundamentalists were able to infiltrate the management of at least 10 schools in Birmingham, UK, because council officials were too scared to confront them out of fear of being labelled “Islamophobic”. According to the Guardian, a

The 298 passengers and crew on board the doomed flight MH17 would have been oblivious to what was happening as the missile struck the plane, according to a defence analyst. The Buk SA-11 missile would have hit the plane at

A total of 80 children were among the victims killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine. The Daily Mail reports that the victims included a three and five-year-old from Indonesia who died with their parents, as

Popular musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has told how he was so convinced he wanted to die last year that he considered visiting a suicide clinic. In an interview for the Telegraph, the composer says that he has now

A British schoolgirl had four abortions before she turned 16, new figures reveal. The Sun reports that she was among more than 200 under-16s who had multiple terminations over the past three years. The Department of Health figures showed that,

Pro-Russian separatists are to give international investigators access to the crash site of the downed Malaysian Airlines jet in eastern Ukraine. The BBC reports that the rebels have pledged to secure the site and allow for bodies to be recovered.

A report into an attempted takeover of Birmingham schools by Islamist extremists has uncovered evidence of “coordinated, deliberate and sustained action to introduce an intolerant and aggressive Islamist ethos into some schools in the city”, according to the Guardian. The

A British imam has said that the increasing prevalence of the burka among young Muslim women is “one of the most sinister developments of our time” and called for the garment to be banned. Dr Taj Hargey of the Muslim

Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister, David Cameron, personally congratulated former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard when her Labor government introduced the carbon tax. In a move described by the Sydney Morning Herald as a “clear embarrassment” for then opposition leader Tony

Israeli officials said they had intercepted an attempt by 13 militants to tunnel into a village hours before the humanitarian ceasefire was declared, the Telegraph reports. The Israeli army said it had dispatched aircraft to block the infiltration. Lt Col

A Royal Marine died after falling down a gorge he did not know was there because it was marked on a map in Welsh. The inquest into the death of marine Ashley Hicks heard that he fell 100ft down a

The Tesco supermarket chain has apologised after a Muslim staff member refused to serve a customer because he said it was Ramadan. The devout cashier said he could not touch the ham and wine as it was forbidden. When the