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PARIS - Monaco's Prince Albert II has acknowledged he is the father of a second illegitimate child, a 14-year-old girl living in California, his lawyer said in an interview published Thursday. Albert, ruler of the tiny Mediterranean principality, "officially recognizes a paternity that was legally established a few weeks ago," lawyer Thierry Lacoste was quoted as saying in France's Le Figaro newspaper. Albert had initially planned to keep his parentage of Jazmin Grace Rotolo secret until she reached adulthood, but "the situation had become untenable for her" in recent weeks amid increasing speculation about her father, Lacoste said.

Berlin police say they have foiled a German woman's plans to travel abroad to become a suicide bomber. She is one of three women who media reports say are being investigated after announcing plans on the internet to carry out missions in Iraq. Berlin police said the woman may have been planning to take along her child, who has since been taken into care. Berlin police told the BBC they had discovered that a 40-year-old woman was "planning via an internet forum to commit suicide, kill or injure other people abroad". "She herself is a convert to Islam and was...

The EU's highest court today blocked an agreement to give the US information about transatlantic air passengers. The European court of justice ruling said the US did not provide adequate protection for air passengers' privacy. Under the agreement, reached in May 2004, EU airlines have been obliged to give Washington 34 items of information about passengers flying to the US. The details include names, addresses, all forms of payment and contact telephone numbers.

Eurovision in Athens on Saturday night The 51st Eurovision song contest will be held at OAKA's Olympic indoor hall in Athens on Saturday night and will be broadcast live at 10 p.m. by state-run NET television station. Thousands of specators saw the rehearsals at the indoor hall and applauded all the participants, especially Greece's Anna Vissi who will sing "Everything". The ten countries which qualified in Thursday night's semi-final were Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lithuania, Finland, Ukraine, Ireland, Sweden, Turkey and Armenia. Cyprus and Belgium, among others, were knocked out of the competition. The ten best...

Today, some 80,000 people participated in a silent march in Brussels to commemorate 17 year old Joe Van Holsbeeck, who was knifed on 12 April because he refused to hand over his MP3 player to two North African youths. The murder happened during the evening rush hour in a crowded Brussels central station. The murderers were filmed by security cameras, but it took a full week before the authorities released the footage. The assassins are still at large. This BBC report about the march, which was the largest protest in the country since 1996 when 300,000 marched through Brussels in...

The Belgian Bishops have opened their churches to illegal immigrants in order to pressurize the Belgian authorities to allow the immigrants to stay in the country. Most of the immigrant squatters in the churches are Muslims. They display banners in the church showing the name of Allah (picture taken in the church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Brussels). The Belgian Bishops are so ignorant that they do not see what is going on: their churches are being turned into mosques before their very eyes. The Muslim squatters hold Islamic prayer services in the church. The altar has been moved...

LONDON (Reuters) - A former goat herder and male stripper has sold twice as many records as Madonna in recent weeks to become the first Arab to top the British pop singles chart since records began 44 years ago. "Mashallah (Thank God) - it's beyond dreams. To know that I'm the first Arab to do that, it's a very proud moment," Chico told Reuters in an interview. His debut single, "It's Chico Time", is enjoying its second week in the top spot. Born in Wales of Moroccan parentage, 34-year-old Chico came to prominence on prime-time British television talent show, "X-Factor",...

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (Reuters) - The U.S. government knew by the 1990s how al Qaeda trained suicide operatives but missed capturing the man who masterminded the September 11 attacks about four years before they occurred, an FBI agent said on Tuesday. FBI agent Michael Anticev said in testimony at a sentencing trial for September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui that the U.S. government knew by the mid 1990s that there were several al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and other countries. Operatives at the training camps were taught how to carry out terrorist operations, including suicide missions, and were trained in how...

ABIDJAN, Feb 23, 2006 (AFP) - Youssouf Fofana, suspected head of the "Gang of Barbarians" wanted for the kidnap, torture and murder of a young Jewish Frenchman near Paris, was arrested here early Thursday by Ivorian police, a source close to the inquiry told AFP. Fofana was picked up by the judiciary police in the working-class district of Abobo in the northeast of Ivory Coast's economic capital, the source said. The 25-year-old convicted petty criminal is of Ivorian origin. He styles himself -- in English -- as the "brain of barbarians" and is believed to have fled to the west...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATHMandatory abortion proposed in Holland Official calls for debate to deal with issue of unwanted children -------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 21, 2006 11:44 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------- © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Marianne van den Anker A health official in the Netherlands has called for a debate on the idea of forced abortion and contraception to deal with what she sees as a crisis of unwanted children. Alderman Marianne van den Anker of the Leefbaar Rotterdam Party wants specifically to target communities of Antilleans and Arubans where she sees the biggest problems of unwanted children. Her comments have stirred protest...

"It is extremely important to point out that the aim behind these cartoons was not to attack the Prophet at all or devalue him, but as an opening to dialogue on freedom of expression," Sunday's apology said. "We did not realize at the time how sensitive this issue was for Muslims in Denmark or millions of Muslims around the world." The adverts included a previously published statement from the Danish embassy in Riyadh declaring respect for Islam. The apology was dated February 5, but an advertising spokesman at al-Riyadh said it might have taken time for the papers, which are...

EU commissioner urges European press code on religionBy David Rennie in Brussels(Filed: 09/02/2006)Plans for a European press charter committing the media to "prudence" when reporting on Islam and other religions, were unveiled yesterday. <script>document.write('<a href="http://ads.telegraph.co.uk/event.ng/Type%3dclick%26FlightID%3d12277%26AdID%3d14448%26TargetID%3d2697%26Segments%3d183,217,381,406,419,475,491,532,539,736,737,928,950,964,998,1040,1057,1063,1088,1242,1278,1418,1419,1428,1532,1552,1578,1582,1649,1652,1673,1695,1700,1703,1704,1714,1728,1748,1754,1756,1773,1774,1780%26Targets%3d154,3121,3146,2697,3142,3171,2700,3266,2611,3113,2945,2950,3141,3169,3196,3238,3261,3274,2858,2865,2919,3028,2936%26Values%3d25,30,50,62,75,85,100,110,150,155,196,197,198,1275,1282,1393,1444,1462,1503,1899,2096,2098,2248,2262,2336,2423,2500,2542,2564,2619,2626,2629,2630,2631,2632,2650,2664,2666,2667,2682,2860,3116%26RawValues%3d%26Redirect%3dhttp:%252f%252fclk.atdmt.com/MDG/go/tlgrpbpu0050000011mdg/direct/01/bzzawjw,bbRzWRebghNzN/" target="_blank"><img src="http://view.atdmt.com/MDG/view/tlgrpbpu0050000011mdg/direct/01/bzzawjw,bbRzWRebghNzN/" width="200" height="200" border="0" alt=""></a><br>');</script> Franco Frattini, the European Union commissioner for justice, freedom and security, revealed the idea for a code of conduct in an interview with The Daily Telegraph. Mr Frattini, a former Italian foreign minister, said the EU faced the "very real problem" of trying to reconcile "two fundamental freedoms, the freedom of expression and the freedom of religion".Millions of...

Oslo politicians are angered by a recent invasion of organized foreign panhandlers drawn to the capital by recent legislation forbidding the policing of beggars. Police and the city council advise people to stop giving to the city's new beggars, and claim that organized bands from Romania have invaded Oslo, newspaper Dagsavisen reports. Police have received a rash of complaints from Oslo residents who are frustrated by aggressive beggars, and there are a growing number of visiting supplicants from abroad, with beggars from eastern Europe now present year round, instead of just in the summer. "These beggars have a different approach,...

FURIOUS Muslims have blasted adult shop Ann Summers for selling a blow-up male doll called MUSTAFA SHAG. They complained that the novelty sex toy insults the Prophet Muhammad — who also has the title al-Mustafa. The High Street chain’s jokey £15 mustachioed doll has a 7in manhood and is targeted at hen parties. But the Muslim Association — based at Manchester’s Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre — branded him “obnoxious”. Yesterday a spokesman said: “This is the name of our Prophet and it’s very upsetting. This thing should be banned.” In a letter to the store, the Association said:...

A mass demonstration of 100,000 Muslims will take place in London next weekend as anger continues over publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The Muslim Action Committee, an umbrella group which claims to represent more than a million Muslims, said it would do as much as it could to prevent the ugly scenes seen last week when protesters carried placards issuing death threats and one man dressed as a suicide bomber. But they said they needed to "channel" growing anger felt by communities across Britain that Muslims were being persecuted and made to feel like "second class citizens". Faiz...

  The United Nations and European Union have reached agreement to issue a joint statement condemning cartoon "insults to Islam" that were first published in a Danish newspaper and have been widely reprinted recently, resulting in a rash of violence throughout the Muslim world. According to a report in WAM, the United Arab Emirates news agency, the agreement is the work of Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Conference. The agreement, according to Ihsanoglu, will mean a formal rebuke by the U.N. and EU of the Danish paper Jyllands-Posten for publishing the offensive cartoons. The statement, he...

The opposition of the Bush administration to turning the Net over to the tender mercies of the UN and such bastions of liberty as Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia was enough to block the globalist mischief in Tunis. But the UN bureaucrats and their allies in Europe and the so-called "developing world" have not folded their tents. Instead, the summit in Tunis produced a permanent standing body, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to keep the pressure on, to keep working to undermine the American position and wrest control of the Net. The IGF is set to hold its...

The Times February 02, 2006 The President is a dolt – so how can America be such a success story? Anatole Kaletsky TWO CEREMONIAL events occurred in Washington on Tuesday evening that shone a spotlight on one of the most important but paradoxical features of a modern democratic society. The more widely reported was President Bush’s State of the Union address, a weak and defensive speech even by his undemanding standards. At the other end of Washington, meanwhile, Alan Greenspan, the retiring chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, was bidding farewell to the institution whose skilful management of US monetary...

STRASBOURG, France - The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday that evidence pointed to the existence of a system of "outsourcing" of torture by the United States, and that it was highly likely European governments were aware of it. But Swiss Sen. Dick Marty said there was no tangible proof so far of the existence of clandestine centers in Romania or Poland as alleged by the New York-based Human Rights Watch, and complained of a lack of cooperation by EU governments. His interim report, based partly on results of national investigations and...

The justice minister of the European Union, Franco Frattini, announced this week at the EU parliament in Strasburg that member states which do not eliminate all forms of discrimination against homosexuals, including the refusal to approve “marriage” and unions between same-sex couples, would be subject to sanctions and eventual expulsion from the EU. According to a report by the Archdioceses of Madrid’s news service Analisis Digital, the commissioner’s statements came as the governments of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Poland ruled against legalizing homosexual “marriage.” “Homophobia is a violation of human rights and we are watching member states on this issue...