2005-2014

March 6, 2006 -- The editor of Azerbaijan's opposition newspaper "Azadliq" says he believes an attack on one of the newspaper's reporters was linked to the work he was doing. Reporter Fikret Huseynli was attacked late yesterday. A spokesman for the opposition People's Front of Azerbaijan said assailants bundled Huseynli into a car, drove him to a dark alley and beat and stabbed him. The assailants...

LONDON – As protests against the Danish cartoons fade, Europe's moderate Muslims are facing difficult choices about their faith, identity, and values. "The middle ground in Muslim communities is between a rock and a hard place," says Omar Shah, an Afghan-Danish commentator on Muslim affairs. "The moderate majority is having to decide where they stand." During a month of flag-burning protests in...

THERE are lots of ways to describe Boing Boing, the Web's obliquely subtitled "Directory of Wonderful Things," which draws millions of eyeballs to its relentless, stylistically minimalist scroll of high-weirdness each month. It is a site where, on Saturday morning, there were links to video games that "subvert post-industrial capitalism," federal legislation aimed at digital radio technology, a...

SHANGHAI, March 5 – Last October, a colleague persuaded Xu Jinglei, a Chinese actress and filmmaker, to start writing her own Web log. Now, five months later, Ms. Xu, 31, is the country's most popular blogger, and her runaway success has given rise to an online debate here about the economic value of blogs and who should profit from them. Ms. Xu's blog has already received more than 11 million...

SOMETIMES it pays to think big -- really big. Just ask the chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt. The company's share price has had a bumpy ride lately as Wall Street tries to digest the fact that Google is unlikely to carry on growing until it reaches the sky. This in itself is somewhat bizarre. In the final three months of 2005, Google made as much money as it did in all of 2003. How could it...

In the modern world, the twin liberal values of press freedom and religious tolerance can easily conflict with each other. In January, this tension between censorship and expression came to a head in Europe and the Middle East. The publication of cartoon depictions of the prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper set off a wave of protests, some turning violent. The newspapers and their supporters...

CAIRO, March 5, 2006 (IslamOnline.net) – In response to an invitation from the Danish-Egyptian Dialogue Institute, two delegates from IslamOnline.net will be traveling, along with a small group of Egyptian journalists and academics, to Denmark on Sunday, March 12, for meetings with Danish media representatives and Danish Muslims. "The goal of the visit is to give journalists from IOL, [Egyptian...

NEW YORK (AP) _ The daughter of renowned British journalist Alistair Cooke says she's haunted by the gruesome news that her father's body was illegally sold by a funeral home to a tissue-processing plant. Susan Cooke Kittredge, in an op-ed piece published in Sunday's New York Times, recalled her reaction when a detective from the Brooklyn district attorney's office telephoned her shortly before...

A media expert yesterday urged journalists and reporters to be more conscientious and disciplined, especially when covering stories in which a suspect has not yet been proven guilty. The call came in the wake of the suicide of a junior high school teacher in Taichung City who was accused last week of having an affair with one of his students. The teacher was being prosecuted for the affair after...

SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Hyo-bi doesn't want her picture taken any more. Not after the 22-year-old student's portrait wound up on a photo-sharing Web site last summer with her face colored and distorted to make her look silly, titled alongside the original as "Before and After." She tried to simply forget about it, but she couldn't. She was barraged with calls from friends who saw the page, and...