2005-2014

BERLIN -- An apology by Denmark's largest newspaper for depicting the Prophet Mohammed in political cartoons failed yesterday to calm a controversy that has ignited fiery protests across the Islamic world and provoked death threats against Scandinavians by Muslim radical groups. Muslim political and religious leaders and jihadists added their voices to the fury already thundering from mosques and...

THE Danish editor who brought the fury of the Muslim world on his country by printing pictures of the Prophet Muhammad defiantly declared yesterday: "We do not apologise for printing the cartoons. It was our right to do so." As protests continued for a second day in Gaza with shouts of "Death to Denmark", Flemming Rose, the culture editor of the centre-right daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten, sat in...

A French newspaper has reproduced a controversial set of caricatures, originally published in Denmark and decried in the Muslim world as blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed. The Paris daily France Soir, on Wednesday, printed the dozen cartoons, explaining that it chose to do so to illustrate the polemic sparked by their original publication, in the Danish Jyllands-Posten paper last September...

A leading Danish newspaper has apologised for the offence caused by its controversial publication of a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that provoked protests across the Middle East, while defending its right to commission and print them in the first place. Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief of the daily Jyllands-Posten admitted that the 12 cartoons, one of which depicted the Prophet...

A Internet statement purportedly from an insurgent group in Iraq urged militants on Tuesday to attack targets in Denmark and Norway, the first known call for violent reprisals over the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. "We call on all our brigades in Mujahedeen Army to hit any targets they can in these two countries, and any other country that does the same thing," the...

The newspaper publisher Knight Ridder, which is seeking a buyer under pressure from its largest shareholders, reported a 22 percent decline in fourth-quarter earnings yesterday from a year ago. The company, which is based in San Jose, Calif., earned $83.3 million, or $1.24 a share, in the three months ended Dec. 25, down from $107.2 million, or $1.38 a share, a year earlier. The latest results...

LONDON, Jan. 31 – As Islamic protests spread about cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, defended press freedom in his country on Tuesday but distanced himself from the newspaper's decision to publish the drawings. His remarks fell far short of the apology demanded by an array of Islamic groups and countries which have imposed a...

A Danish newspaper suffered bomb scares a day after apologising for cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed which prompted protests from Muslims and a boycott of Danish products in a dozen nations. The offices of Jyllands-Posten in Copenhagen and Arhus were evacuated as the storm continued over its publication last September of a series of 12 satirical cartoons regarded by many Muslims as blasphemous. In...

Yahoo recent quarterly results disappointed investors when their net income only rose 32% over a year ago. The market punished their stock, taking billions off their market cap. Will the same thing happen to Google? I'm no Jim Cramer, but I do know a few things about the two ad platforms that generate the bulk of each company's profits. Here are a few key differences I've noticed that influence...

AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre has called for an end to the free Internet which he says is costing coms companies a fortune. According to the Financial Times, Whitacre said that content providers should be paying for the use of the network which is effectively being delivered for free by the coms companies. He said that web providers could pay the comms companies by charging their customers for visiting...