Clamour grows for BBC to act over Russell Brand radio insults

Some prank phone calls made by BBC presenters Russel Brand and Jonathan Ross have become a major issue in the UK, dominating the 24-hour networks today. When a high-profile guest cancelled on the show, Brand and Ross left him messages on his voicemail on air harassing him,...

US 'insults' Berlusconi in press notes

"The Bush administration was forced yesterday to issue a grovelling apology to the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, after White House officials briefed the travelling US press corps that Berlusconi was...

Navy Times: Prankster May Have Been Behind Radio Threats

It's all fun and games until someone blows up a nuclear reactor.  God, this just keeps getting weirder.  The Navy Times is reporting that the whole Iranian think might have been a prank.  Good thing the Bush administration doesn't have an itchy trigger...

Human Rights Commission Urges Mexico to Rein in Army

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission has urged the country's President Felipe Calderon to rein in the military following a slew of alleged abuses of civilians by the armed forces. "Mexico Prez Urged to Rein in Army Mexico, Sep 22 (Prensa Latina) The head of Mexico's...

Demonstrators in Muhammad picture protest

"Just after 2pm on Friday a group of around 300 demonstrators marched the short distance from the Islamic Cultural Centre in Örebro to the offices of Nerikes Allehanda newspaper. The demonstrators chanted slogans...

Imus, Ignorance and Race

My friend Rick introduced me to Imus when I was in college.  He was from Connecticut and came to NC to attend the law school at UNC-Chapel Hill.  He was the resident advisor on my floor at Ehringhaus,...

Alec Attacks: Baldwin threatens daughter in phone message

"I'm gonna straighten your ass out when I see you, screamed Baldwin...about what a rude little pig you are, you a rude thoughtless little pig."This was the enraged message Alec Baldwin left for his 11-year-old...

Conrad Black's Silence Broken by Wife's Tirade

Conrad Black is wisely staying quiet at his fraud trial. The same can't be said for his wife, Barbara Amiel Black, who spouted insults at journalists after her husband's fraud trial was adjourned briefly Monday.

German Football Fans Single Out 'Racist'

Racial tension has long been a spectre haunting European football, brought to non-European attention mainly by mega-moments such as the Zidane head-butt during the last Wold Cup final. For every one of those moments, how many are there that go unreported or unanswered?...

Can we question their patriotism now?

Update3 Faisal Khetani on Monday told FOX News that the person responsible for the email reply had been fired. The Web site, meanwhile, has been temporarily taken down.  Hess emailed that he has since found two mat suppliers willing to ship to an APO address...

Bosnia acts against Wahhabis

A Syrian Wahhabi imam, Imad al-Husin, has been 'resigned' from his community, AKI reports from Sarajevo.  Imad al-Husin, a Syrian known as Abu Hamza, said he was resigning because of his "inability to express himself in the Bosnian language in order to be understood...

Zidane blames Materazzi insults (BBC)

" Zidane blames Materazzi insults  —  Zinedine Zidane's agent says the France captain headbutted Marco Materazzi in Sunday's World Cup final because the Italian made a "very serious" comment.  —  Zidane appeared to react to something that was...

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