Court drawing of Rajib Karim: The BA employee is accused of two counts of planning suicide bombings A would-be suicide bomber worked for British Airways and plotted to take advantage of cabin crew strikes to launch an attack, it was alleged yesterday. Rajib Karim, a trusted IT expert at the airline, planned to volunteer for crew training to help keep flights running during the threatened walkouts. He... 

Najibullah Zazi, pictured being extradited to New York from Denver, Colorado, has admitted plotting a suicide bomb attack in New York An Afghan immigrant has pleaded guilty to planning a suicide bomb attack on New York’s subway system in what would have been the worst attack on the United States since September 11. Najibullah Zazi, 25, also admitted receiving bomb-making and weapons training... 

Last week-end, almost a thousand taxi drivers in the Norwegian capital Oslo and neighboring municipality Bærum went on what could be called a religious strike. Both on Friday evening and Monday morning, Muslim taxi drivers refused to drive in protest against Wednesday’s front page of the Norwegian tabloid paper Dagbladet. That day, the tabloid ran an article about some of the “dangerous”... 

Nadja Benaissa sings with No Angels, Germany's most successful girl band A singer from the German girl band No Angels has been charged with causing bodily harm for failing to inform sexual partners she was HIV positive. Nadja Benaissa, 27, had sex with three people without telling them she was infected, prosecutors in Germany said. One of them has since been confirmed as having contracted the virus,... 

Man dressed in black randomly shot at ‘panicked’ people at mall. A gunman clad in black went on a shooting rampage Thursday, killing his ex-girlfriend by slitting her throat from ear to ear on New Years Eve then slaying four workers at a suburban shopping mall near Helsinki before apparently turning his gun on himself, police said. Takkirauta, a Finnish blogger, reports that according to the police... 

Aso Mohammed Ibrahim ran down and killed Amy Houston, but has been told he can remain in the UK An asylum seeker who ran over a girl of 12 and left her to die has won his appeal to stay in the UK after arguing for his right to a family life. Aso Mohammed Ibrahim, 32, was banned from driving and awaiting deportation when he ran away with Amy Houston trapped under the wheels of his car. But the Iraqi... 

Rabbi Dov Gruzman (left) pictured with former Jewish US Ambassador Ronald Lauder in 2008. A Chabad rabbi was attacked after presiding over a public Chanukah menorah lighting in Vienna. The assailant who punched Rabbi Dov Gruzman and bit off part of the rabbi’s finger following the lighting Saturday night in Stephansplatz Square was Muslim, according to reports. Gruzman, principal of the Lauder... 

The Education Ministry has included textbooks on religion classes starting from grade one of primary school for Turkish students abroad, even though such instruction for their counterparts in Turkey only starts in the fourth grade. The Education Ministry included religion textbooks with the others it supplies free-of-charge to Turkish students abroad as part of the “Our near ones, far away” project. The... 

Europe's low white birth rate, coupled with faster multiplying migrants, will change fundamentally what we take to mean by European culture and society. The EU is facing an era of vast social change, reports Adrian Michaels, and few politicians are taking notice. Britain and the rest of the European Union are ignoring a demographic time bomb: a recent rush into the EU by migrants, including millions... 

Amsterdam – Thirty-six per cent of Turkish and Moroccan migrants in the Netherlands are thinking about emigrating due to the increasing popularity of the controversial Freedom Party PVV, a study conducted by polling agency Moviction showed Monday. Dutch current affairs television programme NCRV Netwerk which commissioned the poll, is to air the study’s results Monday night. More than half... 

Al-Qaeda’s North Africa wing has called on Muslims to “take revenge” and retaliate against France for its opposition to the burka, the American monitoring service SITE Intelligence has reported. Earlier this month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the burka, which covers the whole face, was not welcome in France. “Yesterday was the hijab (the Islamic headscarf long banned in French schools)... 

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More than half of the people with Turkish and Moroccan backgrounds in the Netherlands say they would consider leaving the country due to the growing popularity of anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. A third say they would definitely like to emigrate. The figures emerge from a survey by research bureau Motivaction for public service broadcaster NCRV’s current affairs programme Network. The programme... 

A Balloch woman was knifed repeatedly by a man she met through an arranged marriage website. The woman’s family were also threatened by crazed Yasir Afsar as he burst into their home. The High Court in Edinburgh last week heard how Afsar went berserk in the Balloch house after the relationship with his intended bride broke down. He turned up on the woman’s doorstep at 6.30am, forcing his way into... 

A former public schoolboy accused of making his own suicide vest using home-made explosives described in court how he became interested in explosives to make himself ‘cool’ and ‘popular’. Isa Ibrahim, formerly known as Andrew in his school days, also told the court he started using hard drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine while at school and played online computer games for...