Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was punched in the face at the end of a rally on Sunday by a man holding a small statue in his hand, leaving the 73-year-old media mogul with a bloodied mouth and looking stunned, police said. The 42-year-old man accused of attacking Berlusconi in Milan as he signed autographs was immediately taken into custody. TV showed the leader with blood under his nose, on... 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the cabinet’s approval of a plan to change Israel’s map of national priority areas to include more West Bank settlements did not signify a permanent stance on the future of these areas. “We will determine the future of settlements only within the framework of a permanent agreement [with Palestinians],” Netanyahu said, according... 

Danish police on Sunday released hundreds of activists who were detained during a mass rally demanding strong action from delegates at the U.N. climate conference. Police said only 13 of the 968 people detained during and after the demonstration in Copenhagen remained in custody Sunday. Of those, three — two Danes and a Frenchman — were set to be arraigned in court on preliminary charges of fighting... 

Three African-American players from the Lappeenranta-based Finnish American Football League team Rajaritarit are suspected of rape. According to the club, the players have been in police custody since Monday of last week. “The matter came to me as a total surprise. We have made an effort to provide support to our players through the entire process”, explains Rajaritarit chairman Juho Ritala. According... 

A Stanford Professor has used United Nation security officers to silence a journalist asking him “inconvenient questions” during a press briefing at the climate change conference in Copenhagen. Professor Stephen Schneider’s assistant requested armed UN security officers who held film maker Phelim McAleer, ordered him to stop filming and prevented further questioning after the press conference... 

A new billboard off of Interstate 70 in Missouri provides a short “citizens guide to REVOLUTION of a corrupt government” and issues a call to “PREPARE FOR WAR.” This billboard replaces one that warned that the socialist “Obama-Nation” is “coming for you.” It’s unclear who the owner of the billboard is, but the first one was the work of a “Missouri businessman.” While it’s unclear... 

U.S. President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, acknowledging the controversy over the choice of a wartime president and saying he reserved the right to take action to protect the United States. In a speech at the award ceremony in Oslo, Obama said violent conflict would not be eradicated “in our lifetimes”, there would be times when nations would need to fight... 

LAURA INGRAHAM, GUEST HOST: In the “Culture War” segment tonight: a shocking proposal to save the earth from climate change. A columnist for one of Canada’s largest newspapers wants the whole world to adopt China’s one child per family policy: “Humankind has not yet recalibrated its behavior to account for the fact that the world can only accommodate so many people, especially... 

THE number of foreigners living in the UK hit a record high last year, new figures have revealed. There are 6.7million people who were born overseas living here — one in eleven of the total population — the Office for National Statistics said. Its annual overview of official population figures also showed the extent of the “Immigrant Baby Boom” affecting the country. Nearly a quarter... 

There is an amazing story in Ha’aretz today on the “pro-Israel” Litmus test that determines who is permitted to serve in the United States government. Here’s the sort of lede you’re not likely to read in the New York Times or Washington Post: Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community. In the case... 

Additional information on Jamaat ul-Fuqra here, “The Charlotte County Files”: and here, ‘Muslims are majority of Amerians’ This is an exclusive. This is literally the first place this footage has ever been shown publicly. Please send this link far and wide. It is with permission of the creators of this video. Please do pay attention this is very serious and needs to be seen by all. For several... 

“There is an event coming in the very near-term future that is going to effect the USA to its very soul,” former Kansas State Trooper Greg Everson of The Heartland USA and former host of Republic Broadcasting “Voices from the Heartland” told host Steve Quayle in a special two hour “Survive 2 Thrive” broadcast Thursday. “What is being planned and what is coming together is a perfect storm... 

Efraim Zuroff European “anti-Semites” are pushing a new line “more pernicious than Holocaust denial” to denigrate the alleged murder of six million Jews, warns veteran Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff. Particularly in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, prominent politicians are trying to persuade the European Union’s parliament to formally equate Nazi and Communist crimes as equally... 

Holocaust Survivor Rosemarie Pence Charged with felony, theft and fraud A 71-year-old Longmont woman who some believe spun grandiose tales of Holocaust survival to manipulate others to house her and provide her with money is wanted on suspicion of felony theft and check fraud. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office last month obtained a warrant to arrest Rosemarie Pence, originally of Germany. Pence... 

The European Union’s foreign ministers on Tuesday softened their call for a division of Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians, saying that the city should be shared but that the two sides should negotiate the details. The statement, issued in Brussels, marks a diplomatic victory for Israel in a contest with the Palestinians for international support. In the absence of direct, U.S.-mediated...