A 26-year-old engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison for “usurping” the identity of the brother of Moroccan King Mohammed VI on Facebook.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said al-Qaida is trying to establish a presence in the West Bank and Gaza, and he has ordered his security forces to prevent it.

The biggest summit of Islamic leaders in three years opened today with calls for the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims to unite against “a few million Jews” who allegedly rule the world and get others to fight and die for them.

Heads of state of leading developing countries gathered in Switzerland today for a series of meetings on the sidelines of the summit of Group of Eight leading world powers.