On the ship that was intercepted today by Israel, roughly 500 tons of weapons, rockets and missiles was uncovered that was sent by Iran and destined for the terrorist group Hezbollah.
36 shipping containers with 500 tons of weaponry were found on the ship disguised as civilian cargo, and hidden among hundreds of other containers onboard, Israel Defence Forces announced.
The cargo ship, called “Francop”, was intercepted 100 nautical miles west of Israel, flying an Antiguan flag.
Following …

Renault are to discuss pulling out of Formula 1 at an emergency board meeting in Paris today, however, they are not going to make the decision public today.
The French car company will decide whether to remain in the sport with their own team, switch to simply being an engine supplier or quit altogether, the BBC reports. The news comes on the day that Toyota announced their decision to quit F1, becoming the third car company to …

Conservative leader David Cameron promised today that never again will powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without a referendum, like it has happened with the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.
Cameron said that all future treaties would be put to a public vote as he outlined his new European policy after ruling out a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, the BBC reports. He also promised a sovereignty bill if the Tories…

A jury at Preston Crown Court decided that it’s perfectly all right to call someone a “white bastard” and dismissed the case against a 23-year-old man who used that term against the BNP leader Nick Griffin.
Tauriq Khalid, who admitted calling Griffin a “fucking wanker”, smiled in triumph as the jury dismissed the case, The Times reports.
Khalid also made a gesture with his hand as if threatening to shoot Griffin in the incident last November, when …

Yesterday the new “V” series – the remake of a popular TV-series from 1984 – piloted in the United States. As one of the people from the generation that has also seen the old “V”, I greatly anticipated the new series and I have to admit, the start is quite promising.
“V” is about an alien race – called “Visitors – that come to Earth, claiming they’re peaceful and happy, and that they’ve come to share …

Bodycare UK, the chain of cosmetic stores, have banned their staff from wearing Remembrance Day poppies, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Catherine Barr, an assistant with Bodycare for seven years, was astonished when she was ordered to remove the poppy she had worn to work. “I turned up for work wearing my poppy and was told by management that I couldn’t,” she said. “I was quite upset and really annoyed, so refused to remove it.”
Because of her refusal …

Police in the Sharon area were today placed on the highest level of alert due to fears of a possible infiltration by a terrorist, but the level of alert was later reduced in most areas.
Acting on intelligence, significant forces from the police’s Central District, the Border Police, and the Shin Bet security service were combing areas in search of a suspicious individual believed to be intent on carrying out a terrorist attack, Ha’aretz reported.
Checkpoints were set …

The current American administration just can’t help their utmost desire to be friends with pariahs – now they are willing to improve ties with the military junta in Burma.
US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell said today that the US government are willing to improve ties with Burmese junta, Japanese news agency Kyodo reports. In a statement released after talks with Burmese junta officials and detained pro-democracy leader Aung San …

MPs will no longer be able to profit from taxpayer-funded property deals under new expenses reforms announced by Sir Christopher Kelly, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Members will no longer be able to claim for their mortgage interest payments as part of the expenses crackdown, and the controversial practice of “flipping” properties should no longer be allowed. In addition, MPs will no longer be able to employ wives and other family members…

Voters in the US state of Maine narrowly decided to repeal the state’s new law allowing same-sex marriage, the New York Times reports.
About 53 percent of voters approved the repeal, ending an expensive and emotional fight that was closely watched around the country as a referendum on the national gay-marriage movement. Polls had suggested a much closer race.
With the repeal, Maine became the 31st state to reject same-sex marriage at the ballot box. Five other …

Europe’s leading low-cost airline easyJet celebrated on Monday the launch of their London Luton-Tel Aviv route at Ben-Gurion Airport with the company’s top officials and the first 171 passengers arriving on the first flight, Ynet reports.
With 100,000 passengers expected for the first year, easyJet are operating a brand new Airbus A320 and will be flying six days a week, excluding Fridays.
In addition to the London-Tel Aviv route, easyJet introduced 25 new routes across their network over …

The execution by beheading of a man who raped two young boys earlier this year and abandoned one of them to die in the desert in Saudi Arabia was postponed yesterday.
The 21-year-old man was supposed to die on yesterday afternoon; a new date has not yet been fixed, ArabNews reports.
The General Court in the northern city of Hail sentenced the man to death after he was found guilty of kidnapping four boys, raping two of them …

According to security firm SophosLabs, a test showed that Windows 7 system on a clean PC was affected by 80 per cent of viruses, the Independent reports.
Sophos’ Chester Wisniewski said engineers loaded a full version of Microsoft’s recently launched operating system, and configured it to follow system defaults for UAC (User Account Control) without installing an anti-virus package.
Ten samples of net nasties that arrived in the SophosLab security feed were tested to, as Wisniewski put …

The US House of Representatives condemned yesterday the UN report that accuses Israeli forces of committing war crimes in Gaza early this year as irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy, Ha’aretz reports.
With a 344-36 vote, the House passed a nonbinding resolution that urged President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to oppose unequivocally any endorsement of the report. Twenty-two representatives voted present.
The report, commissioned by the UN Human Rights …

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has six months to sideline his brother and reduce corruption or risk losing American support, The Times reports.
Senior Afghan insiders said that US President Barack Obama delivered the ultimatum when he congratulated Karzai on his re-election on Monday. Top of his demands was action against corruption, the appointment of “reform-minded ministers” and several high-profile scalps to prove Karzai’s commitment to cleaning up his Government.
“If he doesn’t meet the conditions within six …

Anti-government protesters and security forces clashed in the center of the Iranian capital today on the 30th anniversary of the seizing of the US Embassy by radical students, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Security forces fired tear gas at protesters on 7th of Tir Square and Hafez Street in Tehran’s downtown. On Vali Asr Square, armed security forces surrounded a crowd of demonstrators chanting “death to the dictator” and “Russia is the den of espionage”, playing on …