For the first time in years, Israelis will hold a large scale rally against United States policies towards Israel, Arutz 7 reports.
The protest will be held in downtown Jerusalem, on Agron St. on Monday evening, and is being organized by the Residents Committees of Binyamin and Samaria, as well as the nationalist umbrella organization Mateh Maamatz, the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities, and Komemiyut.
Knesset Members and others representing various parties, including the Likud, will speak.
“Not …

Sacha Baron Cohen has stepped up his security after being threatened by a terrorist organisation that are angered at their portrayal in the film Brüno, the Times reports.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian militias in the West Bank, said they were “very upset” that they featured in the film starring Baron Cohen’s homosexual fashionista alter ego.
Baron Cohen’s Austrian character ridicules the terrorist group when he attempts to get himself kidnapped during a meeting …

AT&T announced on Friday that a refurbished iPhone 3G — specifically, the black 8GB model — can now be picked up for just $49 (£30), while supplies last, PC World reports.
That’s half the price of an unopened 8GB model. A refurbished 16GB iPhone 3G (black or white) costs $99.
One still needs to sign up for a two-year contract.
“Refurbished phones are previously owned devices that have been unused or lightly used and returned during the 30-day …

A popular nightclub in Tel Aviv called “Rogatka” (slingshot) is refusing entry to Israeli Defence Forces’ soldiers in uniforms, because the uniforms are apparently associated with “oppression and genocide”, according to an Israeli blog called The Muqata.
According to the story, first reported by Army Radio, two IDF combat soldiers who visited the club last week were forbidden entry. They were told they could switch to civilian clothes and come in, but it was forbidden to …

Injured Formula One driver Felipe Massa can now communicate actively and is able to move his hands and legs, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Brazilian Massa, who fractured his skull in an accident during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Saturday, is waking up from sedation more and more frequently.
Spokesman Istvan Bocskai said Massa spent the night calmly and an ultrasound examination carried out in the past hours was “reassuring”.
Bocskai said Massa could move his hands …

A businessman was arrested for attempted murder after confronting yobs who were attacking his stepson, the Daily Mail reports.
Colin Philpott, 58, said he reacted instinctively when he allegedly stabbed one of the youths with a letter opener.
To cut a long story short: late on Friday night, while in bed, his 25-year-old stepson Alex Lee heard a disturbance outside in the cul-de-sac. Along with his mother, he opened the front door to discover a gang of five …

Brutal teenage knife killers are living in the lap of luxury at a “holiday camp” jail, where they can watch giant 50” plasma screen TVs, play the latest computer games and even choose their own toilet seat covers for their en-suite bathrooms, the Daily Mail reports.
Ex-substance misuse worker Helen Stanmore, 52, said prisoners at Warren Hill jail at Hollesley, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, enjoyed a lavish ‘millionaire’ lifestyle. She also said that almost £100,000 compensation was paid …

Ferrari driver Felipe Massa has shown signs of improvement following surgery on a fractured skull in Hungary, the BBC reports.
“Felipe had a quiet night,” a Ferrari spokesman said. “He is okay, and he is due to have another CT scan today.”
“We are optimistic in our hope that a slow recovery is beginning,” said hospital spokesman Istvan Bocskai. ”He’s woken up more often and is able to communicate actively.”
Massa, 28, was hit by a spring from Ruben …

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was discharged from the military hospital where he spent the night and his office says his collapse while jogging was due to heat and overwork, the AP reports.
Medical tests on Sarkozy’s heart conducted on Monday show no signs of irregular heartbeat and no long term consequences for the president’s heart. No further medical treatment was prescribed, but the President has been told to rest for a few days.
54-year-old Sarkozy interrupted his Sunday …

Foreign Secretary David Miliband proposed today that the Allies should change strategy in Afghanistan to include talks with elements of the Taliban, the Times reports.
In a speech at NATO headquarters Miliband said that while it was vital to keep pressing forward with the military campaign that has started to take the battle to the insurgents, it would also be prudent to start a Northern Ireland-style dialogue with the enemy.
Miliband urged NATO members to support the …

Britain has a higher proportion of pensioners living below the poverty line than Romania, the Daily Mail reports.
Only in Estonia, Latvia and Cyprus are the aged more likely to be among the poorest in society.
This is largely because state benefits for the worst-off pensioners have slipped behind those available to the other poorest group in society, single mothers.
Ministers have also acknowledged that elderly people with their own incomes and homes suffer because of the impact …

Immigrants who want a British passport will have a better chance if they agree to move to Scotland under absurd new Home Office plans, the Daily Mail reports.
The Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy revealed that if immigrants were willing to live in under-populated parts of Britain, they would find it easier to pass the test. “Having lived and worked in Scotland is proposed as one way to earn points,” he said.
Critics point out it will be …

Sarah Palin stepped down Sunday as Alaska governor to write a book and build a right-of-center coalition, but she left her long-term political plans unclear and refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid, FoxNews reports.
In a fiery campaign-style speech, Palin said she was stepping down to take her political battles to a larger if unspecified stage and avoid an unproductive, lame duck status.
“With this decision, now, I will be able to …

Motorists would have to pay tolls to drive on newly built roads under plans being drawn up by the Conservatives to cut public spending, the Telegraph reports.
The road tolls are among a range of new taxes David Cameron is being forced to consider as public borrowing is forecast to rise to more than £1trillion.
The Tory leader promised a “national endeavour” to pull the public finances out of the red as he admitted that he “cannot …