An Italian couple’s adoption bid was denied after they said in their application that they did not want “dark-skinned” children. An appeal court in Sicily ruled that the couple were unfit to adopt children of any description, local media reported. A child protection agency took the couple to court after they submitted an application in Catania, in eastern Sicily, saying they were... 

Obama administration takes unprecedented action to protect an American sports team. The Colombian football team had $2,500 looted from their hotel rooms by hotel staff in South Africa. The same thing happened to the Egyptian team during preliminaries. Now the Obama administration has ordered federal agents to South Africa to protect the American team. A large force will protect American football players... 

The former director of B’nai Brith Quebec has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after agreeing to a plea bargain. The former director of B’nai Brith Quebec, Bill Surkis, has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges after agreeing to a plea bargain. Surkis and his wife made a brief appearance at the Montreal courthouse Wednesday morning. In return for a guilty plea to charges... 

A generic photo of an old man An elderly man was surrounded by seven young black men who punched him and demanded money as he left a Glen Burnie barber shop. Suzanne Collins reports police arrested all of them as they ran toward a nearby light rail station. At the Headquarters Barber Shop in Glen Burnie, Tommy and Earl are still shaken. Their 72-year-old customer was attacked in the parking lot by... 

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has little room to critique Arizona's new immigration law given the country's own record of human rights violations, experts told FoxNews.com. On the heels of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s speech slamming Arizona’s immigration law, Cuban leaders and Venezuela’s president are adding to the chorus and calling the law ‘racist and xenophobic”... 

In the annals of CIA sub­terfuge, this is a weird one: A spe­cial ops unit pitched the idea of try­ing to dis­credit Sad­dam Hus­sein as a gay pedophile before the 2003 inva­sion, reports the Wash­ing­ton Post. The idea was to cre­ate a phony home video pur­port­ing to show Sad­dam hav­ing sex with a teenage boy. Supe­ri­ors even­tu­ally shot it down, though the unit did make a fake... 

Street vendors are detained by police at a popular open-air market in Warsaw after throwing stones and metal objects at custom authorities in reaction to the killing of one of their colleagues. A 36 year old Nigerian was fataly shot after trying to flee from a routine police inspection. A Nigerian was shot dead in Warsaw on Sunday after a struggle with police who chased him through a crowded open-air... 

In France, ethnic statistics are forbidden. But they left a flaw in their system: drepanocytosis is a genetic illness that only affects Black people. Today, a map showing the “risk population” for drepanocytosis has been published: thus, the “Black population”. This is the first time ever that we have such ethnic statistics in France. And the results are… alarming. This... 

Two unidentified men threw a grenade into a store in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, injuring two people. “The men opened the door to the store, threw an explosive device inside and ran away,” said Vyacheslav Stepchenko, spokesman for the St. Petersburg police. Stepchenko said that the police were still investigating whether the device was a grenade or some other kind of explosive. The store, which... 

Controversial: Sir Bob Geldof made the comments during a speech at a breakfast in Brisbane held to encourage businesses to pledge to provide 50,000 jobs to Aborigines Sir Bob Geldof has angered thousands of Australians by giving an impassioned ‘speech of shame’ outlining the country’s treatment of its indigenous people. Anti-poverty campaigner Geldof called Australia ‘economically... 

Proud Gay Portuguese president Anibal Cavaco Silva has approved a law authorising gay marriages, making Portugal the sixth country in Europe to allow same-sex unions. Mr Silva, a practicing Roman Catholic from Portugal’s main opposition centre-right party, says he has put his “personal convictions” aside in deciding to approve the legislation. The law, adopted in February by the centre-left... 

Africans creating problems in Russia The police of Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod broke up a massive fight between local residents and African students of the city’s State Architecture and Construction University on May 18. The fight took place in the Pushkin Park, near the dormitory. Three police squads set the fighters apart and detained most active and aggressive individuals. S everal other smaller... 

Rahm Emanuel The Obama administration has “screwed up the messaging” about its support for Israel over the past 14 months, and it will take “more than one month to make up for 14 months,” White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday to a group of rabbis called together for a meeting in the White House. “During the elections there were doubts about President Obama’s support for... 

Policemen detain a gay rights activist during an unsanctioned Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Pride Parade in the capital Minsk Belarusian police have violently dispersed a gay pride parade banned by authorities. Riot police on Saturday broke up the demonstration and arrested several dozen participants, beating some of them and throwing them on the ground. The organizers said that their goal was to attract... 

The Japanese government has blocked legal efforts to clamp down on child pornography, with the country becoming the world's "kiddie porn superpower," according to a pressure group. The ruling Democratic Party of Japan has refused to support legislation that would outlaw the possession of child pornography on the grounds that it would infringe individuals’ freedom of expression –...