Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan leaves an official ceremony to mark Republic Day at the new Presidential Palace in Ankara October 29, 2014. A Turkish court has officially banned media coverage of a parliamentary investigation against four former ministers over corruption allegations. On Tuesday the Turkish court ruled that the ban was issued to “prevent damage to the individual rights”... 

According to the Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Anthea Butler, robbery suspect gentle giant Mike Brown was sacrificed to the “god of white supremacy.” Butler imbues her diatribe against a racist white America with religious overtones: No one should be surprised that Darren Wilson was not indicted by the grand jury. Prosecutor Robert McCulloch played... 

Twitchy is reporting on tweets from a rapper named Azealia Banks who reportedly stated that she “might have to kill one of these crackers in their sleep.” Banks tweeted several offensive statements before apologizing. Nah don’t worry. We know how you are Ms Banks. A former stripper turned “rapper” desperately jealous of real artists like Iggy Azalea who grace the covers of magazines... 

Turkey’s president says men and women cannot be equal, and that feminists don’t understand motherhood. Recep Tayyip Erdogan caused widespread offence with his comments at a conference on women’s rights in Ankara. “You cannot make women and men equal; this is against nature,” Erdogan stated on Monday. “You cannot subject a pregnant woman to the same working conditions as a man. You cannot... 

“Would a moat, water, six feet around, be kind of attractive and effective?” Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen suggested building a moat around the White House Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee meeting with the U.S. Secret Service. Speaking with acting U.S. Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy on the agency’s recent scandals, Cohen suggested that a large body of water surrounding... 

The World Health Organization (WHO) reveals a third of all women globally are victims of domestic violence. The World Health Organization (WHO) says current efforts to stop domestic violence are inadequate, as a third of all women across the globe are victims of domestic violence, mostly in the Muslim world. The WHO released on Friday a series of studies, saying one in three women have experienced... 

Artur Mas, the president of Catalonia is seen casting his ballot to vote in a symbolic referendum in Barcelona on Catalonia’s independence from Spain, November 9, 2014. Spain’s chief prosecutor is set to launch a lawsuit against Catalonia’s President Artur Mas as well as other local officials over the autonomous region’s recent symbolic referendum on independence from Spain. Eduardo Torres-Dulce... 

“Who else wants to protest?” PM Prayuth said after 5 students were arrested for showing Hunger Games salute. Five Thai students were held by the police after using a three-finger salute from the Hollywood blockbuster ‘The Hunger Games’, widespread among protesters, in front of Thailand’s new army-backed prime minister. Prime Minister General Prayuth Chan-ocha was making a speech at... 

In a now all too familiar scenario, a 5th grader has been suspended in Massachusetts after pointing an imaginary gun and saying “pow”. Ten year old Nickolas Taylor was suspended for two days by officials at Stacy Middle School in Milford, following the incident which took place in the school cafeteria. Nickolas, who has no history of bad behaviour, is said to have cut in line at the lunch queue... 

During her Friday program on the Fox Business Network, Melissa Francis made a truly scandalous revelation: “When I was at CNBC, I pointed out to my viewers that the math of Obamacare simply didn’t work. Not the politics by the way; just the basic math. And when I did that, I was silenced.” Francis began her program with two of the recent Jonathan Gruber videos in which he admits that when he... 

Most important thing for Rihanna about visiting the White House? Barack Obama is black… not his policies which are almost identical to his white predecessor. Imagine this: When Bush was in the White House, a famous white musician says the best thing about George W. is that he’s white. The musician would be crucified as a racist, a member of the Ku Klux Klan or worse. CNN, (especially) MSNBC,... 

‘Reprehensible’: Texan English teacher Vinita Hegwood will be fired for her racist tweet to white followers about the Ferguson police shooting. She has been suspended without pay pending a school board meeting. A high school English teacher will be fired for posting a tweet ridden with profanities and anti-white racist slurs about the police shooting of black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson,... 

Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria. Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria says the Catalan region cannot be granted the right to self-determination. The Spanish official made the remarks in parliament on Tuesday, a day after more than two million people took part in an independence vote in Catalonia. “The right to self-determination that you demand... 

A bill that would extend all Israel’s new laws onto the Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank has been approved by the Israeli ministerial committee. Some ministers however criticized this attempt to annex another part of Palestinian territory. According to the new bill approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday, the Israeli laws would be applied through a military decree... 

Despite the “shellacking” of Democrats at the hands of the GOP in this week’s mid-terms, Obama has promised to press ahead with plans for immigration reform, including an executive order which many fear will amount to all out amnesty. “Before the end of the year, we’re going to take whatever lawful actions that I can take,” Obama said. “What I’m not going to do is just wait. I think...