The shooting of a jogger in a Paris suburb on the same day as the Charlie Hebdo massacre has been linked to the gunman who killed a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher supermarket, a prosecutor has said.

The French satirical magazine where the shooting took place has a history of causing controversy with cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed.

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President Barack Obama has vowed the United States will “work with the Libyan government to bring to justice” those who killed US ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in an attack on the consulate in Benghazi.

SHOUTING “death for killers,” thousands of Pakistanis buried the country’s only Christian government minister who was killed for challenging a law that stipulates death for insulting Islam.

THREE men suspected of planning a deadly attack on a Danish newspaper appeared yesterday before a court which charged them with an attempted act of terrorism and possession of weapons, officials said.

TWO suicide bomb attacks outside a mosque killed 39 people and wounded more than 100 during a Shi’ite religious ceremony in the south-eastern Iranian city of Chabahar yesterday, local media reported.

Police in Denmark said a man injured in an explosion at a Copenhagen hotel was preparing a letter bomb, likely intended for a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama warned that an obscure US Christian pastor’s plan to burn the Koran tomorrow to mark September 11 could provoke al-Qaida suicide bombings, as Asian countries urged Washington to prevent the act.

Paramilitary troops patrolled the streets of an eastern Pakistani city today after eight Christians died in riots led by Muslims, police said.

FOUR Muslim men have been jailed for their part in protests at the Danish embassy in London, against cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammad.

A British soldier was killed when a roadside bomb hit an army patrol in southern Iraq today.

More than 20,000 supporters of a radical Islamic group held a peaceful rally against the publication of Prophet Mohammed cartoons today in Lahore, Pakistan.

European Union foreign ministers are expected to continue providing millions of euros in aid for much-needed funds to the Palestinian caretaker government today.

A roadside bomb exploded near a primary school in a predominantly-Shiite area in southern Iraq today, killing two boys and injuring four others.

Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli has resigned after his wearing of a T-shirt featuring Prophet Mohammad cartoons sparked a riot in Benghazi in Libya in which 10 people died

The Iranian government has hit back at an accusation by US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice that it has inflamed violent protests over caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad and demanded an apology.

Western-style free speech that allowed the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in Europe will lead to more violence between Muslims and Westerners, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami warned today.

The United Nations and the world’s largest Islamic grouping appealed for calm after more clashes linked to global protests over Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohammad.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell today praised the Irish Muslim community for their peaceful reaction to the publication of satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

A Norwegian newspaper that published Danish drawings of the Prophet Mohammad that outraged many Muslims today said it had received death threats over the cartoons.