North Korean leader Kim Jong Il pardoned two American reporters after former US President Bill Clinton made a surprise visit to the communist nation to negotiate their release, FoxNews reports.
The journalists are expected to return home with Clinton.
During his visit, Clinton met with Laura Ling and Euna Lee — the reporters sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor after North Korea accused them of sneaking into the country illegally and engaging in “hostile …

Lebanese terror organisation Hizbollah have stockpiled up to 40,000 rockets and are training their forces to use ground-to-ground missiles capable of hitting Tel Aviv and anti-aircraft missiles that could challenge Israel’s dominance of the skies over Lebanon.
Brigadier-General Alon Friedman, the deputy head of Israel’s Northern Command, told The Times from his headquarters overlooking the Israeli-Lebanese border that the current stability was in danger. He added that the peace, which has reigned over the rolling Biblical landscape …

Let me first make clear that I am neither a supporter or an opponent of the argument on US President Barack Obama’s “real” birthplace. I do tend to think that it would be incredibly cynical, and even stupid of him to lie about his birth place, as we all know that lies are always exposed. But I try to take this as neutrally as possible until I see proof beyond a doubt that he was …

“Palestinian” terror organisation Fatah, which mainstream media for some idiotic reason always label as “moderate”, are holding their 6th convention in Betlehem today, during which their leader Mahmoud Abbas said that they “maintain the right to launch an armed resistance” against Israel.
Abbas opened the convention with a long speech, in which the opening line praised the “martyrs” who died or were killed in previous terrorist attacks against Israel, Arutz 7 reports.
Abbas, whose doctoral thesis focused …

A new book by Newsmax Chief Washington Correspondent Ronald Kessler features startling revelations about current and former US presidents, including Barack Obama – for example, that he’s still smoking regularily, and that after him taking office, threats against the President increased by 400%.
The book is titled ”In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect” and it’s released on Tuesday, Newsmax reports. The book is …

There is an interesting hysteria all over world’s media about evicting nine Arab families from two houses in East Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah district. But what media, regular Israel critics and even unregular ones do not understand is, a court found those Arab families dwelling in those houses illegally.
It was a long and a complicated court case which ended with the eviction of those families, during which the court determined that Jewish families held the title …

Former US President Bill Clinton, who is on an unofficial and “private” visit to the world’s most reclusive state – North Korea – met today with the country’s leader Kim Jong-il.
Clinton and Kim met in Pyongyang, during which Clinton conveyed a verbal message from US President Barack Obama, the AP reports.
The two shared a “wide-ranging exchange of views” during their talk.
Clinton landed in Pyongyang earlier today in a bid to free two American journalists who …

The Mayor of Latvia’s capital Riga is fed up with unruly British tourists who head to the city for boozy holidays, damaging its reputation among other would-be visitors, AFP reports.
Mayor Nils Ushakovs said that he aimed to attract a wider range of visitors to the picturesque city as the Baltic state tries to battle a deepening recession.
“The only problem is that we have a large share of those British tourists,” Ushakovs said. ”If we also had …

A married man who planned a motel tryst with one of his several lovers was instead ambushed by four of them, including his wife, who superglued his penis to his stomach, the Independent reports.
Donessa Davis was lured into a room by Therese Ziemann where he agreed to a bondage session, but once he was securely tied up she, her sister Michelle Belliveau, Wendy Sewell, and wife Tracy Hood-Davis attacked him.
Ziemann struck the man in the …

Australian police arrested four men with ties to terror organisation al-Qaida in Melbourne on Tuesday, accusing them of planning to stage a suicide attack on an army barracks in Sydney.
The four men, Australian citizens believed to be linked to al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist group, were arrested in pre-dawn raids in which 400 police swooped on 19 properties across the southern city after a seven-month investigation, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The arrests raised concerns that al-Qaida-linked militants …

A Milton Keynes crematorium fined a grieving mother £86 pounds, because she spent a few extra minutes besides the coffin of her five-week-old son.
“The vicar had asked if I would like to spend a bit more time saying goodbye,” 32-year-old Terrie Rouse told the Daily Mail. “I sat by the coffin for ten minutes, telling my son how much we loved him and begging him not to be scared.”
Her grief turned to shock, however, when …

A group of London’s bus drivers are set to protest about pay cuts by revealing their underpants, London Evening Standard reports.
The drivers will congregate in Marble Arch tomorrow morning to make their eye-catching protest.
Union Unite claim that disparities in drivers’ wages – which can vary by as much as £10,000 a year – and variations in other conditions of employment are leading to a damaging “race to the bottom” in service provision. The term “race to …

Russian soccer fans have been told to drink whisky on their trip to Wales for next month’s World Cup qualifier to ward off the swine flu virus, Reuters reports.
“We urge our fans to drink a lot of Welsh whisky as a form of disinfection,” the head of the country’s supporter association (VOB) Alexander Shprygin told Reuters. ”That should cure all symptoms of the disease.”
Russia’s Health Ministry has issued a public warning against traveling to Britain because of …

A pilot was killed and several passengers injured when a Thai plane skidded off the runway during landing at Koh Samui airport.
The Bangkok Airways flight was carrying 70 people, when it crashed while landing in heavy rain, the BBC reports.
The plane had taken off from the southern Thai town of Krabi, another resort popular with tourists.
The crash happened at around 14:00 local time (09:00 BST).

Terror organisation al-Qaida have a three-stage plan for the encircling and destruction of Israel that has been shared and discussed over the course of the past week among global jihadists, Arutz 7 reports.
On Monday, al-Qaida’s number two terrorist released a lengthy video that also focused, in part, on destroying Israel.
First phase of the plan includes “promoting and promulgating the idea that only by way of jihad can an enemy whose goal is undermining Islam be …

Former US President Bill Clinton landed in Pyongyang earlier today in a bid to free two American journalists who have been jailed by the communist North Korea.
Clinton was greeted at Pyongyang airport by two senior government figures — the vice-president of the presidium of North Korea’s parliament and the Deputy Foreign Minister, the Times reports.
Diplomatic sources suggest that Clinton may be granted an audience with the “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il today.
Reports from Seoul based on South …