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Will anyone stop the Islamists in Mali?
The French have made an intervention in Mali, despite threats to nationals held hostage, as other Europeans and Americans continue to debate what action to take.
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Police arrest two people following a fire at an Islamic cultural centre in Lincolnshire after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. But in York, a mosque turns to tea and football to defuse tensions.
The former leader of the banned Islamic group Al Muhajiroun says he knew one of the suspects, believed to be Michael Adebolajo, as security forces admit that both were on their radar.
Allegations of corruption within the church, child abuse scandals, priestly celibacy, and the rise of militant Islam – just some of the major issues confronting Pope Francis as he begins his papacy.
Islamist fighters desert Mali’s ancient Saharan city of Timbuktu as French and Malian troops re-take it.
A Briton is believed to be one of two people killed in an ongoing attack on a BP gas facility in Algeria. The attackers say 41 hostages have been taken in revenge for attacks on Islamists in Mali.
Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mali launch a counter-offensive, taking the town of Diabaly, 400km from the capital Bamako, after three days of French fighter jet strikes on their desert strongholds.
The French have made an intervention in Mali, despite threats to nationals held hostage, as other Europeans and Americans continue to debate what action to take.
At least four people are killed in the Libyan city of Benghazi as military police and protesters take over militia bases.
At least 17 people are killed and dozens injured when protests by tens of thousands of Pakistanis, infuriated by an anti-Islam film, descend into deadly violence.
Afghan militants have claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a minivan which has killed 12 people, saying it was retaliation for the US-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad.
Shia Muslim militant group Hezbollah calls for fresh protests over an anti-Islam film as former prime minister Tony Blair urges religious leaders to condemn any action.
This week northern Mali’s new rulers banned secular music as “satanic”. From now on, private radio stations in the north may only play the recitation of Koranic verses.
A militant Islamist leader whose forces have just conquered two-thirds of the West African state of Mali vows to launch holy war against the west.
Police raid the underground catacombs of a Russian Muslim sect based in the city of Kazan, in Tatarstan, and release dozens of devotees, including several children.
The early results of Libya’s first elections are confounding those who assumed Islamist parties would take the lead. Unike in Egypt and Tunisia, in Libya many voters seem to have turned their back on the Muslim Brotherhood.