More than 100 Germans have protested outside the Hotel Berlin against Dutch hardliner and anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders’ visit to their country.

The United States is planning to warn Americans to be vigilant as they travel in Europe in light of intelligence pointing to possible attacks by al-Qaeda in Britain, France and Germany, a US official has said.

DUBAI (Al Arabiya) The Dubai-based MBC group on Thursday signed a deal with Qatar’s public media group to produce a television series about the autobiography of the second Caliph of Islam Omar bin al-Khattab, scheduled to be aired during the holy month of Ramadan 2011.

Five years after the initial release of the Prophet Mohammad cartoons in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, its cultural editor, Flemming Rose will be publishing a book entitled “The Tyranny of Silence,” which will include the 12 drawings that had sparked mass rioting.

ANKARA (Reuters) Turkey’s prime minister said on Wednesday a law that prohibits women wearing the Muslim headscarf at university was against freedom of belief, in his strongest hint yet the AK Party might try again to lift the ban.

Israeli warships on Tuesday intercepted a Jewish activist boat trying to run the naval blockade on the Gaza Strip after it refused to heed calls to change course, organisers said.

A US soldier, accused of forming a group that killed ‘for fun,’ confesses to killing 3 innocent Afghans with a fellow soldier confirming that the killings were out of “pure hatred”.

An Israeli airstrike on the southern part of the Gaza Strip has claimed the lives of three Palestinians, Palestinian medical sources have said.

WASHINGTON: The United States said Monday it was disappointed by Israel’s refusal to extend a slowdown in settlement construction and dispatched special Middle East peace envoy George Mitchell to the region in an urgent bid to salvage the stalled negotiations.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Islamic states sought on Wednesday to have the United Nations human rights council condemn a U.S. pastor’s suspended plan to burn Korans, saying it was part of a pattern of global anti-Muslim violence.