The Victim A Pretoria schoolgirl who stayed at home with an ear infection was stabbed to death and had her hands chopped off, reports Beeld newspaper. The father of the 17-year-old Anika Smit found her naked body at their home at Theresa Park in northern Pretoria on Monday afternoon when he returned from work. “When I saw the overturned chairs in the dining room, I knew something was wrong. I... 

The Democratic administration of Barack Obama, who denounced his predecessor, George W. Bush, as the most secretive in history, is now denying more Freedom of Information Act requests than the Republican did. Transparency and openness were so important to the new president that on his first full day in office, he dispatched a much-publicized memo saying: “All agencies should adopt a presumption... 

Maybe she’s plain retarded, after all why would a third worlder be a doctor in a European nation? But maybe she did it purposefully… One must never forget that Muslims are here in Europe not necessarily for a better personal life but simply to replace us “infidels” and conquer our lands. A doctor with a ‘disregard’ for patient safety was suspended for just four months... 

Three Labour MPs at the centre of the expenses scandal tried to wriggle out of a criminal trial yesterday. Although charged at Westminster magistrates’ court with claiming a combined total of almost £60,000 in fraudulent expenses, they insisted the courts had no jurisdiction over them. Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine argued that, under the 321-year-old Bill of Rights, they could... 

One resident after another is harassed out of their neighborhoods in Amsterdam. This time a Jewish couple in Bos en Lommer is being targeted. Bricks are thrown through their windows, swastikas are being painted on their walls and so on. Before the reporter approaches that couple, he talks with people from the neighborhood to find out what goes on peoples’ minds. He talks to people and finds... 

Pawel in the Warsaw synagogue When Pawel looks into the mirror, he can still sometimes see a neo-Nazi skinhead staring back, the man he was before he covered his shaved head with a skullcap, traded his fascist ideology for the Torah and renounced violence and hatred in favor of God. “I still struggle every day to discard my past ideas,” said Pawel, a 33-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew and former truck... 

The exercise was intended to give the pupils at St Hilary's Primary School an insight into the horrors faced by Jewish children during World War II A group of stunned primary schoolchildren began crying when their teacher told them during a bizarre Holocaust game that they were to be taken away from their families. The pupils, aged 11, became upset after a number of them were segregated and told... 

Holocaust survivor, writer and statesman Elie Wiesel told students at the Hopkins School Monday never to take the role of bystander as evil unfolds in the world. “Whenever evil shows its face, don’t give it another chance. Remember, the choice is always yours. Bystander is not the role I advise you to adopt,” Wiesel said in an hourlong talk and question-and-answer session at the... 

Minority babies set to become majority in 2010 Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years. In fact, demographers say this year could be the “tipping point” when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites. The numbers are growing... 

Anti-Gypsy Wall Elzbieta and Viera, mother and daughter, stand in their garden looking down at the Roma (Gypsy) children tobogganing hilariously in the last of the winter snows. All that separates them is a wall – a new, white concrete wall, 150m (495ft) long, 2.2m tall. Beyond the wall stand the wattle-and-daub, mud-and-twig hovels where many Roma live here in Ostrovany, in eastern Slovakia. “I... 

Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom has signed a law making Holocaust denial punishable by three years in prison. The law was approved last month by Hungarian lawmakers, after more wide-ranging versions of the law had been rejected by courts for limiting free speech. Spokesman Ferenc Kumin says President Solyom signed the bill because in his opinion the law is not unconstitutional. Parliament had rejected... 

Plots in Kupala Street-Bahdanovich Street- Svislach River area are sold to the state of Oman. “Belarus plans to use Oman for promotion of its products in the region,” “Belarus sees Oman as a key partner in the region”, “Oman, Belarus ink pact to form business council”. Such headlines have appeared in today’s Belarusian mass media covering the visit of the Belarusian “parliamentary’... 

Abraham Foxman, Jewish leader of ADL The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 23 to 22 to acknowledge the mass murder of Christians, mostly ethnic Armenians, by the Turks early in the 20th century. Turkey officially denies that they committed genocide against Christians Armenians, Greeks, and others. The main group that has been lobbying congress not to recognize the killings as “genocide” is... 

Who’s to blame for the current global financial crisis? According to a bestselling book in China, which is leading the sales charts in the country, the answer is clear: The Jews. In the eyes of most Chinese, Jewish people are considered “smart,” “rich” and “good at making money.” Bookstores in China offer a variety of self-help books titled, “How to... 

Herbert Pundik There have always been journalists who “crossed the lines” and switched to being spokespersons, advisers or investigators of bodies that were previously the object of their coverage and commentary. There have presumably always been journalists whose work serves as a cover for clandestine work, but only a few are willing to admit it. One such person is Herbert Pundik (Nahum...