Two jailed in UK for inciting racial hatred online

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - In an astounding revelation, Al-Qaeda extremists have claimed that home-grown terrorists are plotting to attack targets in Britain. According to reports, in an internet magazine read by thousands of Islamic extremists Al-Qaeda has labeled Britain and Europe as a bigger enemy than the United States.

August 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Southern Poverty Law Center has warned that American right wing and anti-government militias are on the rise after nearly a decade of obscurity. In a new report, quoted extensively by the Christian Science Monitor (CSM), the SPLC, which monitors hate groups and extremist activity, warns of "unmistakable signs of a revival of what in the 1990s was commonly called the militia movement." "Paper terrorism" - the use of property liens, bogus legal documents and "citizens' grand juries" to attack enemies and, sometimes, reap illegal fortunes - is again proliferating, to the point where the government has set up special efforts to rein in so-called "tax defiers" and to track threats against judges....," it warns.

July 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - What if you had a remote-sensing mechanism that could record how millions of people worldwide were feeling on any particular day? That is exactly what Peter Dodds, mathematician and Chris Danforth, computer scientist at the University of Vermont (UVM), are set to do. They have worked out ways of gauging collective happiness by monitoring bloggers' and other online writers' reports of how they were feeling.

July 8th, 2009 London, July 8 (ANI): British police chiefs have warned that neo-Nazi sympathisers could be plotting a terror attack against Muslims, aimed at sparking a race war in the UK. The surveillance has been stepped up of right-wing extremists, and Muslims have been warned they could be targeted to inflame tensions.

July 7th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Time spent online by children aged between two and 11 in the US has surged by 63 percent in the last five years, according to a new study. The average time spent online per month by children in the US has increased from nearly seven hours in May 2004 to more than 11 hours in May 2009, marketing information company Nielsen said in its report released Monday.

June 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE - The Australian government, alarmed at the damage done to the country's reputation after a series of attacks on Indian students, is mulling a change in law that would make sending an SMS inciting racial attacks an offence, media reports said. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has set up a special task force, headed by national security adviser Duncan Lewis, to consider a review of counter-terrorism legislation and making an SMS encouraging someone to attack overseas students because of their race or nationality a federal offence.

June 17th, 2009 LONDON - A British mother jailed for adultery in Dubai has been freed and reunited with husband who turned her in. Sally Antia, the British mother-of-two, has reportedly flown to Australia with her husband, Vincent, after serving six weeks of a two-month jail sentence.

June 17th, 2009 PERTH - It was bad enough that Indian students were being racially abused, but reports have now surfaced that racial taunts have also been directed at aboriginal students in the town of Narrogin in Western Australia's south-east. According to news.com.au, 25 children have been asked by their parents to stay at home because of what they claim are racial slurs against indigenous students.

June 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Undeterred by the slowdown, Indians continued to spend online in the last quarter of 2008 to emerge as the third highest spenders on the Internet in the Asia Pacific region, a report released Thursday by electronic payments giant VISA said. The report said Indian online shoppers increased their purchases by 42 percent, or by about $1,000 per shopper to $3,450, compared to the $2,420 spent in the previous quarter.

June 7th, 2009 MELBOURNE - In another attack on Indians in Australia, a car belonging to an Indian student was torched in Melbourne Saturday night by suspected drug addicts. While the police have ruled out a racial motive, the student has claimed it was a racial attack.

June 5th, 2009 UN expert tells US gov't to fight racial profilingGENEVA — The United Nations' top racism investigator says Washington needs to step up the fight against racial profiling. Mithu Muigai says in a 29-page report that law enforcement is responsible for the "most pronounced" racism now practiced in the United States.

May 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A British Muslim mother has been jailed for forcing her two minor daughters to marry their cousins and become sex slaves in Pakistan. The 39-year-old duped the girls, aged 14 and 15, by telling them that they were going on a holiday to Pakistan.

May 15th, 2009 EDINBURGH - Campaigners chained themselves together on Thursday as part of a worldwide call for the release of a doctor jailed for speaking out about poverty. Dr Binayak Sen worked with the poorest people in central India for decades, but was jailed two years ago for speaking up for his patients.

April 28th, 2009 Hindus have asked Australia to create a “bill of rights” as a high-priority. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Australia was one of the few Western countries that did not have a charter of rights.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - Jailed Jack Tweed's mother and sister have reportedly paid an emotional visit to his late wife Jade Goody's final resting place on his behalf. Mary Tweed and her daughter Laura were said to have read tributes to the reality TV star as they sat at the churchyard near Jade's home in Essex.