Lawyer Dagir Hasavov The Yabloko party has addressed prosecutors after a Chechen lawyer said in a televised interview that Russian authorities should legalize Sharia courts – or face violence and bloodshed. Yabloko chairman Sergey Mitrokhin has said that his party suspected the lawyer, Dagir Khasavov (sometimes also spelled as Khasabov) of extremism after the native of predominantly Muslim Chechnya... 

Borat (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) Kazakhstan’s shooting team was reportedly taken by surprise at a championship in Kuwait recently. Instead of their national anthem, they heard a parody version from Sacha Baron Cohen’s controversial film Borat. Judging from the YouTube video of the gaffe, the team’s reaction to hearing the English lyrics about “Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in... 

Rev. Lawrence Murphy Arthur Budzinski says the first time the priest molested him, he was 12 years old, alone and away from home at a school for the deaf. He says he asked the Rev. Lawrence Murphy to hear his confession, and instead the priest took him into a closet under the stairs and sexually assaulted him. Budzinski, now 61, was one of about 200 deaf boys at the St. John’s School for the... 

An incredible £6.3 million of your tax money has been spent by the Department for International Development (DFID) on rubbish projects such as a Brazilian dance band in Hackney, it has been revealed. The cash, which is part of the lavish £8 billion foreign aid budget, was given to the Arcola Theatre Production Company in North London, to “provide an access point for developing better global awareness...