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A 19-year-old West Yorkshire man was arrested by police at the weekend after posting a video on social media showing him tearing apart a Koran with his teeth, before putting it in a toilet and then burning it. The unnamed

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin is using his New Year’s speech to hail Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula. He said Crimea’s “return home” will “forever remain a landmark in the national history.” His comment in his prepared annual

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The campaign for Greece’s general election next month is now underway, with the country’s conservative prime minister claiming his anti-bailout opponents would “lead the country to default.” Antonis Samaras was responding to televised remarks by an

Angela Merkel will use her televised new year’s eve address tonight to call on Germans to reject the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of Europe (PEGIDA) movement, remarking it “goes without saying” that Germany should accept mass immigration and refugees

Quite the stupidest “news” story I saw over Christmas was the one about how Winston Churchill was apparently urged in a letter by one of his future in-laws not to convert to Islam. When I started out in journalism in

LONDON, Dec. 31 (UPI) — Actress Joan Collins was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth Tuesday night, along with fellow actors John Hurt and Kristen Scott Thomas, this year’s new honorary dames and knights. “When I first heard, I really

BRINDISI, Italy (AP) — Bad weather in the Adriatic Sea is thwarting efforts to tow a fire-ravaged ferry to Italy, so authorities can search it for more possible dead and investigate the cause of the blaze that killed at least

Police Scotland, which is responsible for policing the whole of Scotland, has taken to Twitter to warn people that they are continuing to “monitor comments on social media”, and that “any offensive comments will be investigated.” The Tweet, posted at

Swastikas were daubed on cars and buildings across a Jewish Community in North London on Sunday night, leaving residents “shocked and fearful”. Twenty-seven cars were targeted, and the mark was even found on the walls of a primary school. The

An Australian housewife and campaigner says that Halal-certified food could be helping fund extremism, while claiming to have discovered an uncomfortable relationship between Islam and some of Australia’s major food companies . As the campaign for clear labelling of food products

Today is the final day Lithuania will use the litas as its national currency before sacrificing monetary policy independence to Brussels and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. People have been queuing at banks across the country to swap old

Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, has told the Economist that living on benefits in the UK is worse than being poor in India, because in India everyone else is poor too. Ms Bennett has claimed that her words

It’s the last day of the year, and like Janus, the Roman god of beginnings and traditions, we should take the opportunity not only to look back on the past year, but look forward to 2015. Next year brings us a

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s 90-year-old King Abdullah was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday for medical tests, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. The news agency, citing a royal statement, said the king was undergoing tests at

Serious questions have been raised after the healthcare worker who became Britain’s first diagnosed case of Ebola was allowed to fly on from Heathrow despite expressing concerns about having contracted the virus, and being tested repeatedly. The nurse who has now

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s chief medical officer has acknowledged that Ebola screening procedures should be improved, after a nurse was cleared to fly hours before she was diagnosed with the disease. Nurse Pauline Cafferkey flew from London to Glasgow on

Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, has claimed the Labour leader Ed Miliband is leading a “traditional left-wing party” that will likely lose to the Conservatives at the next election. Blair told the Economist that May’s poll could become one

SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — For many, it was a family trip to Singapore to ring in the new year, a chance to go shopping and enjoy the city’s famed restaurants. One family was going to visit their 15-year-old daughter, who

There’s no doubt about it, between the miserable weather and the Christmas raid on your wallet, it’s easy to feel pessimistic at this time of year. Between the spiralling public debt, the ever more frequent attacks on liberty and freedom

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — When Antanas Zubavicius turns the light on in his run-down house, it’s the only light for miles. He is the last man in Dumbliuneliai, a once busy farmers’ village in Lithuania that has gradually been abandoned

While pundits and politicians strive to persuade themselves and anyone else who will listen of the probable outcome of the General Election of 2015, voters may find themselves baffled by the vast amounts of misinformation put out by the mainstream

(Reuters) With concerns over the Euro Zone economy shifting from peripheral to core member states in 2014, can the ECB rescue prospects for a better 2015 with a hotly-awaited programme of QE? David Pollard reports. Follow Breitbart London on Twitter

A lecturer at London’s left-wing School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) has drawn ridicule after delivering a “fictionalised”, hour-long talk about the UK Independence Party, in which he used spoof posters that stated UKIP claimed EU migrants would eat

Papers released under the ‘thirty year rule’ show Margaret Thatcher pushed ahead with the implementation of the new GCSE school examinations despite opposition from teaching unions. Even though she hated the new system for 16-year-old’s, she still went ahead with

A University of London lecturer has compared Nigel Farage and UKIP to the regime of Hugo Chavez, the late Venezuelan communist dictator. However, Dr Ryan Brading – a teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) –

Over £1billion worth of property will be allowed to fall into the sea, the Environment Agency has decided, with no compensation paid to the properties owners as it has been deemed too expensive to protect them. However, some councils have

A controversial report on the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain, which is already six months late, will be finally released in heavily redacted form next month amid accusations that it has been the subject of political pressure to

A documentary on the British Royal Family has been “spiked” according to senior schedulers. The programme, called “Reinventing The Royals” was pulled from the state broadcaster’s schedule at the last minute, allegedly over pressure from Buckingham Palace, Variety Magazine reports.

The pilot of a Virgin Atlantic flight from Gatwick to Las Vegas has been applauded for his actions when the aircraft he was flying experienced serious technical faults in the landing gear. The Boeing 747 was packed with more than

Tensions have been flaring in the Austrian capital over the Christmas period as disparate communities clash over religious differences, with religious icons and building vandalised, and pigs entrails being smeared over a mosque in the north of the city. The

MPs on the Commons Defence Committee have woken up to the huge mistake of scrapping Nimrod, the UK’s excellent Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) system. As China and Russia develop their underwater technologies to try to track foreign submarines, including Britain’s with the Trident

Concern is growing for the Christian populations of Kenya and Tanzania, as jihadists are widening their sphere of influence across East Africa, a leading charity for persecuted Christians has warned. Release International has identified Iraq as the worst place to

And up until now now Pope Francis had been doing so well: pious, popular, a scourge of incompetence and corruption, a champion of the poor…. But unfortunately, 2015 looks like the year he’s going to blow it all by casting

Two women from the United Arab Emirates are on trial after falling foul of the repressive rules which women in Saudi Arabia are governed by. Lujain al-Hathlool, 25, and Maysa al-Amoudi, 33, have been detained for nearly a month after

… and Good Riddance to 2014 You may still be enjoying the splendour of time-off between Christmas and the New Year (like most of the deadbeats in Occupied Europe), but James went to work for your enjoyment today and he has

Britain’s youths have more opportunity than any generation before them to be innovative with technology, and yet are becoming a “lost generation”, unable to fix the simplest of gadgets, Professor Danielle George, presenter of this year’s Christmas lectures, has warned.

The British nurse diagnosed with Ebola after she flew back into the country on Sunday evening has been airlifted by military aircraft from Glasgow to London to receive treatment at the Royal Free Hospital, as other suspected cases are assessed