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A British Muslim on trial for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred says he regrets urging bomb attacks on the United States and Denmark at a protest last year against cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Romania and Bulgaria welcomed the New Year as the newest members of the European Union, expanding the bloc to 27 members.
Citizens of Romania and Bulgaria have celebrated the start of their European Union membership with fireworks, music and dancing in the streets.
The president of Iran dismissed U.N. sanctions imposed against his country as, in his words, "superficial" and "unimportant." He spoke in Tehran Sunday, one day after the U.N. Security Council unanimously approved measures aimed at persuading Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment program.
Iranian leaders have condemned the U.N. Security Council for imposing sanctions on its controversial nuclear program, vowing to speed up the development of it nuclear capabilities.
The U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions on Iran for its suspect nuclear program. The vote came nearly four months after Iran defied an earlier Council deadline to halt uranium enrichment.
Peter
Heinlein
22/12/2006
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program. Soon after Saturday's vote, a spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, called the resolution "illegal." He called Iran's nuclear programs "peaceful" and said they will continue.
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for its nuclear program.
Jingle bells and Christmas trees. Houses and buildings covered with lights and ornaments. These are all part of the holiday season in the United States -- meant to boost people's spirits. This is especially true in one small neighborhood in the eastern U.S. state of Maryland -- where there is a unique tradition that the people there call "The Miracle of Lights".
Mozart and the German Opera in Berlin remain in the glare of publicity over the modern staging of "Idomeneo," a 225-year-old opera.
Breffni
O'Rourke
16/12/2006
A new study says politics -- rather than religion -- is at the heart of a growing divide between the West and the Muslim world.
Today is the 15th anniversary of the agreement between Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine that dissolved the Soviet Union.
A team of British investigators today is continuing work on the case of Aleksandr Litvinenko.
Sensational Resolution of the Scholars' Conference at Azhar University in Cairo on 22 and 23 November, 2006
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin says smoking will be banned in most public places in his country in February.
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