The Telegraph – Bruno Waterfield The European Union is to ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables The small glass jugs filled with green or gold coloured extra virgin olive oil are familiar and traditional for restaurant goers across Europe but they will be banned from 1 January 2014 after a decision [...]

CNN - Faith Karimi A federal court has sentenced two Minnesota women to lengthy prison sentences for soliciting donations in the name of charity, then funneling the funds to Somali militants. Authorities said the two women went door-to-door in Somali neighborhoods in the U.S. and Canada, seeking contributions. Amina Farah Ali, 36, got two decades in [...]

CNN British police have identified a number of suspects in the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann during a 2007 family vacation in Portugal, London’s Metropolitan Police said Friday. A review was launched in 2011 in an attempt to find out what happened to the British toddler who vanished from the family’s holiday apartment in Praia da [...]

The Telegraph - Tom Phillips, Shanghai and agencies China has tested a long-range missile capable of intercepting satellites, US intelligence sources have claimed. On Monday night local time a rocket was sent into space from a launch centre in Sichuan province, southwest China. Beijing said the launch was part of a scientific data-collecting mission. But that version [...]

BBC At least 30 militants have been killed during air raids on their training camps in north-eastern Nigeria, officials say. An army spokesman said jets and helicopter gunships had been used to attack several camps. He told the BBC that a plane had been hit by anti-aircraft fire but had managed to return to base. [...]

CNN An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 struck eastern Canada on Friday morning, the government said. The quake was centered about 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Shawville, in western Quebec, near the Ontario border. It was felt in the Ottawa-Gatineau area and out to Toronto, more than 260 miles away, and in New [...]

The Telegraph – Jeremy Warner The latest brainwave from Brussels has the City in its sights, even if Britain goes it alone Of all the nonsense to have come out of Brussels over the years, there is little quite so self-defeating, politically driven, and generally threatening to economic wellbeing as the proposed new Financial Transaction [...]

The Telegraph - Louise Armitstead, Chief Business Correspondent A stagnant economy, a weak President and a jump in car burnings are all signs of a looming crisis in France. The billionaire boss of CQS, one of London’s biggest hedge funds, has written to investors warning them that the France could trigger another more dangerous phase of the [...]

CNN A 30-year-old Uzbek national who has been arrested on federal terrorism charges is expected to make an initial appearance in a Boise, Idaho, court on Friday. A grand jury in Boise returned a three-court indictment charging Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, one count [...]

BBC At least 40 people have been killed and dozens injured by two attacks apparently targeting Sunnis in towns near the Iraqi capital. In the first attack, in Baquba, about 50 km (30 miles) north of Baghdad, at least 30 people were killed by two bombs detonated outside a Sunni mosque. Later, police said at [...]

BBC Russia has sent sophisticated anti-ship missiles to Syria, US media report. The New York Times quotes unnamed US officials as saying the missiles could be used to counter any potential future foreign military intervention in Syria. Without confirming details, Russia’s foreign minister said Russian supplies did not break any international rules. It comes amid growing [...]

CNN – Barbara Starr The U.S. military has updated plans to “capture or kill” alleged perpetrators of the deadly terror attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, CNN has learned. The development comes amid growing pressure on the White House to show progress in the effort to catch those who killed Ambassador Christopher [...]

Mail Online – David Martosko, Washington DC Assailed by questions over three scnadals engulfing White House during Rose Garden press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Would not say whether anyone in his West Wing knew about the IRS targeting of the Tea Party before last week Offered ‘no apologies’ for DoJ secretly seizing phone records [...]

BBC ALancaster bomber has performed a flypast over Derwent reservoir, 70 years on from the historic World War II raid on German dams. Hundreds of onlookers gathered near the dam – one of the practice sites pilots used ahead of their top-secret mission.

The Telegraph - Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor Nigel Farage has been barricaded by police in a pub before being whisked away in a riot van after his visit to Scotland was hijacked by hard-Left independence supporters. The Ukip leader was left stranded in the middle of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, surrounded by around 50 nationalists and socialists [...]

CNN – Jake Tapper The U.S. Marshals Service had been “unable to locate” two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program who have been identified as known or suspected terrorists according to the Justice Department’s inspector general. The Marshals Service has concluded that “one individual was and the other individual was believed to be [...]

The Daily Caller – Neil Munro The Benghazi-related emails released by the White House late May 15 exclude the critical emails between administration officials that were sent during the crucial first two days after the deadly jihadi attack that killed four Americans last September. The 100 pages of partially redacted emails also conclude with a dismissive message from [...]

BBC French President Francois Hollande says recession is now “threatening the very identity of Europe”. Speaking at a news conference in Paris, he said the financial crisis was now under control and “behind us” but “what is hitting Europe is a recession… provoked by the austerity policy”. Mr Hollande was speaking after figures showed France [...]

The Telegraph – William Clarke and agencies The attack, targeting a Nato military convoy, killed six American Nato personnel and at least eight Afghans, including two children, in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year. The Toyota Corolla, laden with explosives, detonated in Kabul’s Shah Shaheed district at 8:00am injuring 37 [...]

The Telegraph – Emma Rowley Britain is on track to “accelerate” its shale gas program, according to Michael Fallon, the energy minister. The Government will next year launch the UK’s 14th onshore licensing round, he said, announcing that engineering consultancy AMEC has been hired to do the environmental assessment of plots’ suitability for exploration. The [...]

The Telegraph – Ambrose Evans-Pritchard My colleague Jeremy Warner has set off a storm in the Spanish press and something close to a diplomatic incident by asserting in a blog that Spain is insolvent. The Telegraph has been accused by Spanish newspapers of launching a “brutal attack”, succumbing to “Hispanophobia”, leading an Anglo-Saxon assault, and otherwise [...]

BBC Seven members of the Egyptian security forces have been seized by unidentified kidnappers in the Sinai peninsula, Egyptian officials say. The three policemen and four soldiers were captured while travelling in minibuses in northern Sinai, east of the city of El Arish. The kidnappers are said to be demanding the release from prison of [...]

CNN - Jake Tapper and Alison Harding In a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa exclusively obtained by CNN, the co-chairmen behind an independent review of September’s deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, expressed irritation over the House Oversight Committee chairman’s portrayal of their work and requested he call a public hearing at which they can testify. “The [...]

CNN David Beckham, one of the most iconic football stars of his generation, has announced his retirement. His decision comes days after the 38-year-old won his latest title with French club Paris Saint-Germain. Beckham, who won the Champions League with Manchester United in 1999, also won league titles with Real Madrid, AC Milan and Los [...]

CNN - Susan Candiotti Boston Marathon bombing victims were collateral damage in a strike meant as payback for U.S. wars in Muslim lands, the surviving suspect wrote in a message scribbled on the boat where he was found hiding, a law enforcement source told CNN Thursday. In the message, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also proclaimed that an attack [...]

World Net Daily – Bob Unruh Obama admin insists family return to Germany to face attacks An appeal is planned for a family of homeschoolers the Obama administration wants to deport to their home country of Germany to face persecution from education officials there who seek fines and jail for such individuals. The word comes [...]

CNN – Brad Lendon At 42, Richard Swanson was without work, without kids at home, without a mortgage, but with a lot of time to ponder what matters. “It gives you time to think of what you want out of life,” he said in a YouTube video. One thing he wanted, he said, was to watch [...]

BBC – Jonathan Amos Water drilled from rock in a North American mine is among the oldest yet found on Earth, say scientists. Novel dating techniques used by the Canadian and UK team suggest the fluid is at least 1.5 billion years old. The water was probably once on the surface and then percolated through [...]

BBC The recession across the 17-nation eurozone has continued into a sixth quarter, figures show. The bloc’s economy shrank by 0.2% between January and March, according to official figures. That left the region’s economy 1% smaller for the period compared with a year ago. Individual data for member countries showed nine were in recession, although [...]

The Telegraph – Victoria Ward A local council decided against flying the flag of St George after concerns were raised that it would offend the town’s 16 Muslim residents. Eleanor Jackson, a university lecturer, said the red and white symbol could cause upset in Radstock, Somerset, because it was used during the Crusades 1,000 years [...]

The Telegraph – AFP Italy has announced the United States was transferring 200 marines and two planes to its base at Sigonella in Sicily. Speaking in parliament after leftist MPs complained they had not been told about the deployment, Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said the transfer was “in accordance with bilateral agreements” between Italy and [...]

BBC Nigeria has announced a “massive deployment of men and resources” to combat Islamist militants in the country’s border territories. A statement said the drive was aimed at “asserting the nation’s territorial integrity” and “enhancing security”. On Tuesday President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in three north-eastern states after a series of deadly [...]

The Telegraph - Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent Britain and France are leading a push to designate the leading Syrian rebel force Jabhat al-Nusra as al-Qaeda controlled in an effort to strengthen the moderate opposition. Al-Nusra is to be included on the list of al-Qaeda backed terrorist groups that are subject to automatic global sanctions, The Daily [...]

BBC France has entered its second recession in four years after the economy shrank by 0.2% in the first quarter of the year, official figures show. Its economy shrank by the same amount in the last quarter of 2012. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. France has record unemployment and [...]

CNN - Kareem Khadder and Laura Smith-Spark Several Syrian rockets landed early Wednesday in the Mount Hermon area of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on the border with Syria, the Israeli military said. “Initial reports indicate that the rockets are a result of (the) domestic situation in Syria,” a spokeswoman for the Israel Defense Forces said. “As a result [...]