2005-2014

Thousands of copies of a student newspaper have been pulped and three of its journalists suspended by their students' union after publishing a controversial cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Cardiff University paper Gair Rhydd, which means "Free Word" in Welsh, is believed to be the first newspaper in Britain to have published the controversial image, which has sparked protests around the world...

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia has decided to suspend the publishing licence of a daily newspaper after it published the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide, the New Straits Times said on Thursday. The Sarawak Tribune ran the caricatures last weekend to illustrate a story on its inside pages about the global fury in what it called an "oversight" by a non-Muslim night...

Journalists from various media organisations here today took out a 'silent morcha' to the divisional commissionerate to protest assaults on scribes in the city and demand action against the accused and compensation to the victims. The morcha of 400-odd scribes, led by senior journalist and Executive Editor of Sakal Gopalrao Sakrikar, Saamna's Assistant Editor Dhananjay Lambe and others began at...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the closing of two Yemeni newspapers and a Malaysian paper after they published controversial cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed. At least four governments have now taken punitive action against newspapers or their editors for publishing some of the 12 cartoons that have sparked protests and violence in several cities, CPJ research shows....

The 135-year-old newspaper that enflamed the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad once offended Nikita Khrushchev so much that the Soviet leader canceled a trip to Denmark. After deadly riots in the Muslim world, the paper remains defiant with Editor-in-Chief Carsten Juste rejecting suggestions that he resign. But Juste said his paper would not join an Iranian paper in...

Antwerp - Spending hours reading the papers may be an ideal pastime on a lazy Sunday afternoon. But what if your newspaper updated itself during the day? What if the pictures moved and the interviews could be listened to? In Belgium, this is coming true - at least for a three-month trial period. The Antwerp-based daily De Tijd will soon become the world's first newspaper to publish a digital...

The Danish paper that printed the cartoons of Muhammad wanted to stir up trouble -- and the government wanted a culture war. They got more than they bargained for. Kashmir this week declared a nationwide protest against 12 cartoon caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published four months ago in a provincial Danish paper. Iran officially launched a cartoon war against the West, calling for...

Imams' critical statements about Denmark in Muslim media have angered the minister of integration affairs Political criticism of local imams in recent days has led the integration minister to exclude the muslim clerics from discussions of the integration of Muslims into Danish society. Some imams have reportedly offered statements to media in Muslim countries that harmed Danish interests in the on...

PRAGUE, Feb 8 (CTK) - People are fed up with advertising on TV, and particularly on the privately-owned TV stations, a poll conducted by Factum Invenio has revealed. Eighty percent of the respondents said advertising is excessive on TV Nova, some 60 percent said the same about TV Prima, and 50 percent about public broadcaster Czech Television. On the other hand, respondents said there is still...

HEBRON, West Bank, Feb 8 (Reuters) - International monitors decided on Wednesday to pull out of the West Bank city of Hebron temporarily after Palestinians attacked their headquarters in protest at European cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. "We are leaving Hebron temporarily because of the damage to the four buildings but we will return," said Arnstein Overkil, the Norwegian head of the TIPH...