AMMAN AFP — Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is ready to stand trial in Jordan over his controversial caricature depicting the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban, the press reported on Thursday. A Jordanian prosecutor summoned Westergaard for questioning in June after local media outlets sued him over...
WASHINGTON AFP — Al-Qaeda Wednesday claimed in Internet statements to have carried out a suicide attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad which left at least six dead, SITE monitoring services said. Monday's attack was said to be in revenge for the publication in Danish newspapers of cartoons insulting...
ISLAMABAD AFP — A suicide car bomb outside Denmark's embassy in Pakistan killed up to eight people including a Danish citizen Monday in a possible new backlash over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, officials and state media said. The massive blast also injured 27 people, damaged the mission in...
ISLAMABAD AFP — Pakistani officials said Tuesday an attack on the Danish embassy was likely a one-off linked to cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and will not impact the new government's talks with the Taliban. Investigators believe Taliban militants based in a tribal region on the Afghan border were...
KARACHI AFP — Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi to protest against Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and a Dutch film said to insult Islam, police and witnesses said. "More than 20,000 protesters attended the rally convened by the fundamentalist Jamaat-i-Islami party," a...
LONDON AFP — British teenage actor Thomas Sangster has been chosen to play Tintin in a big screen adaptation of the comic adventures of the fictitious young Belgian reporter, newspapers here reported Saturday. Seventeen-year-old Sangster, who has appeared in films such as "Love Actually" and "Nanny McPhee," was picked...
THE HAGUE AFP — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday joined Muslim nations in expressing outrage over an anti-Islam film posted on the Internet by a far-right Dutch MP. UN chief Ban called Geert Wilders' film offensive while Iran and Bangladesh warned it could have grave consequences and...
WASHINGTON AFP — Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden warned Europe Wednesday of a "reckoning" for publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, US monitoring groups said. In the message, addressed to the "intelligent ones" in the European Union, bin Laden said that publishing the "insulting drawings" was a greater...
TELEVISION ANIMATION Magnus Fiennes used his experience in the music industry and his children as sounding boards to come up with a cartoon that has Scooby Doo on the run. Sophie Morris meets him It is hard to imagine Bafta and Tony award-winning actor Ralph...
The Benson cartoon about Bill Clinton answering the White House phone at 3 a.m. (March 7) was right on point. It brought out issues we should consider. The No. 1 thing is how ridiculous it is to think that we would be safer with Hillary Clinton in the White House,...
RE SIGNE'S recent cartoon on guns:Does she realize that every single gun crime in Philadelphia is a serious federal offense? Federal firearm law is found in the U.S. Code, Title 18, Chapter 44. These laws cover every aspect of straw-man sales, illegal purchases, illegal transfers, illegal possession, etc. Why isn't...
AMMAN AFP — At least 18 Jordanian media outlets will launch a campaign to protest the reprinting of a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed in Danish newspapers, organisers said on Sunday. Independent newspapers and websites, including Islamists ones, will run a series of articles and editorials from Wednesday...
BEIJING AFP — Chinese children will be seeing less of Scooby Doo, the Flintstones and Bugs Bunny with authorities set to extend a ban on foreign cartoons on prime time television, state press reported Wednesday. From May 1, no foreign-made cartoons will be allowed to be broadcast during the...
INDIANAPOLIS -- Proving that politics can indeed be funny, Que Publishing has just released The Best Political Cartoons of the Year 2008 Edition, edited by internationally syndicated cartoonists Daryl Cagle and Brian Fairrington. The book's third annual edition recaps the year 2007 by combining social awareness with thought-provoking humor. ...
A BOY NAMED SHEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SHEL SILVERSTEIN, by Lisa Rogak, Thomas Dunne Books and St. Martin's Press, 239 pages, $24.95 Shel Silverstein was the bedtime staple of millions of children and their parents who enjoyed his books, drawings and comic poems for a generation....
HONG KONG AFP — Hong Kong comedian and director Stephen Chow will be producing the movie adaptation of popular Japanese manga cartoon "Dragon Ball" for 20th Century Fox, his company spokesman said Thursday. But Chow, best known for "Kung Fu Hustle" and "Shaolin Soccer", turned down a Fox offer...
WASHINGTON AFP — Boys who watch seemingly harmless cartoons or contact sports on TV between the ages of two and five are more likely to be aggressive and disobedient later, a study published Monday showed. "We found the more violent TV children see as preschoolers, the more likely they...
STOCKHOLM AFP — A Swedish artist unveiled Tuesday a sculpture depicting Christ as a well-endowed dog, saying he wanted to stimulate debate about religion and freedom of expression in the wake of a row over cartoons of the prophet Mohammed, Swedish media reported. The artwork showed Jesus as a...
STOCKHOLM AFP — Sweden's prime minister on Sunday appealed for calm following an Al-Qaeda death warrant on two journalists for a cartoon portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a dog and threats to attack top Swedish firms. Cartoonist Lars Vilks said he could die any time as he was getting...
