Muslim Americans responded with a mix of frustration and anger to what many see as a growing wave of Islamophobia fuelled by two of the Republican Party’s most popular presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

The 14-year-old boy who was arrested after authorities at his school mistook a clock he had built for a bomb has been invited to visit the White House by none other than President Obama himself.

MEXICO: The arrest of a drug smuggler in scuba gear led to the discovery of a tunnel from Mexico.

The Palestinian-American teenager said to have been savagely beaten by Israeli authorities has returned home to Florida, saying he will never think of freedom in the same way again.

FRANCE: A South African performance artist who tied a live rooster to his penis during an impromptu open-air show near the Eiffel Tower was found guilty of "sexual exhibitionism", but the court did not impose a sentence

As violent protests over an anti-Islamic film sweep over much of the Muslim world, a conservative blogger’s provocative advert equating Muslim radicals with savages is set to go up in New York’s subway system.

A COLOURING book aimed at teaching children about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has sparked controversy for its depiction of Muslims and interpretation of the events.

WAVING American flags, thousands flooded to the White House in spontaneous celebrations after the death of Osama bin Laden.

A US news analyst has been fired by National Public Radio after saying that he gets nervous when he sees people in Islamic clothes on a plane.

A JOYOUS Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan has the potential for misunderstandings or worse in the United States.

Five American Muslims arrested in Pakistan tried to join al-Qaida but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, police said today.

Five young Americans captured in Pakistan were being questioned today for possible links to terror groups after their families found a disturbing farewell video saying that Muslims must be defended.

US Federal prosecutors are seeking to take over four US mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a Muslim organisation suspected of being controlled by the Iranian government, in one of the biggest counter-terrorism seizures in American history.

An 88-year-old gunman with a violent anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle inside the crowded US Holocaust Memorial Museum, killing a black security guard before being shot by other officers.

Two years ago, Muslim groups protested when the plot of the hit drama ‘24’ cast Islamic terrorists as the villains who launched a stolen nuclear missile in an attack on America.

A US Marine who appeared in a video singing about killing Iraqis has apologised, saying he wrote the song as a "joke".

A music video posted to the internet, telling a tale about a US Marine killing members of an Iraqi family, is being condemned by an Islamic group and investigated by the Marine Corps.

Iraq has asked US authorities to release six of the eight Iraqi women in military custody, but not as part of a bid to free a kidnapped American female journalist, a government official said today.

The Pentagon is to investigate claims that US soldiers posted pictures of Iraqi corpses on the internet in return for access to porn.

Thirty Muslims walked off the job at a Tennessee plant after alleging the company refused to let them pray at sunset – the latest dispute over prayer between an American business and its Islamic employees.

An American-Islamic group has blasted the makers of Kiefer Sutherland's hit TV drama 24 after learning the first episode of the new season portrays a Muslim family as terrorists.

AMERICAN Islamic groups say they should have had more input on the September 11 commission’s final report, which they believe does not spell out a comprehensive plan to win the hearts and minds of Muslims overseas.

Arnold Schwarzenegger paid a hastily-arranged visit to King Abdullah of Jordan today following criticism that the California governor’s Middle East trip excluded a meeting with Arabs.

Anxious Americans expressed mixed feelings today as they watched the first shots of the long-awaited war with Iraq.

An Arab-American secret service agent assigned to US President George W Bush’s security team was removed from an American Airlines flight after the pilot questioned his credentials.

Following the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, Arab-American, Muslim and Sikh leaders have reported assaults against their people in the US.

Muslims worried about a possible backlash against them after Tuesday's