Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Bedroom blogger, 16, takes on animal rights protesters

"Backed by top scientists, teenager who dropped out of school leads Oxford lab tests fightback."

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Emergency declared in Philippines

"A top general is being held, suspected of planning to use rallies marking 20 years since the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos to launch a coup."

Telegraph | News | Satellite films North Korea dollar factory

"The information comes from a recent defector from the North who was a high-ranking official," said Kim Jae-won.

The MPs also showed high-quality fake $100 notes they said had been passed to them by human rights activists working with refugees in Dandong on the Chinese border. The notes were laundered in China, they claimed.

WorldNetDaily: Hamas received funds from Louisiana?

"A man Hamas identifies as its leader in the United States helped raise $500,000 to build a new mosque in Baton Rouge, La., but channeled most of the money to the terrorist group overseas, federal authorities suspect."

WorldNetDaily: 'Hate crime' victims: Young, poor, white

WASHINGTON – The most likely victim of a hate crime in the U.S. is a poor, young, white, single urban dweller, according to an analysis of Justice Department statistics collected from between July 2000 and December 2003.

Prosecutors: Calif. man trained for jihad

Hayat admitted going twice to a terrorist camp and returning to the United States, where he was "waiting for orders," . . .

WorldNetDaily: Probe finds terrorists in U.S. 'training for war'

"A covert visit to an encampment in the Catskill Mountains near Hancock, N.Y., called "Islamberg" found neighboring residents deeply concerned about military-style training taking place there but frustrated by the lack of attention from federal authorities, said the report by the Northeast Intelligence Network, which worked with an Internet blogger, "CP," to publish an interim report. The neighbors interviewed, who asked not to be identified, said they feared retaliation if they were to make a report to law enforcement officials."

WorldNetDaily: Saddam general: WMDs in Syria

"A former general and friend of Saddam Hussein who defected but maintains close contact with Iraq claims the regime supported al-Qaida with intelligence, finances and munitions and believes weapons of mass destruction are hidden in Syria."

An 'island in the sky' shelters new life | csmonitor.com

"By going where no human had gone before, scientists found 40 new species in Indonesia."

Hugo Chavez: MiGs, SAMs and 900,000 more assault rifles | www.vcrisis.com

"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spent over $2.17 billion in 2005 to acquire Russian assault rifles and helicopters, Spanish transport aircraft and missile-capable corvettes, and Brazilian turboprop light attack aircraft. In January 2006, however, the U.S. State Department denied Spain and Brazil permission to sell Venezuela military transport and light attack aircraft containing U.S.-owned engine and avionics technology. The U.S. government’s action killed deals worth over $600 million to Spanish firm CASA-EADS and Brazil’s Embraer. It also created a major hindrance, albeit not an insurmountable obstacle, for the president’s military expansion plans."

WorldNetDaily: Students reject honor to 'Baa Baa Black Sheep' hero

"The University of Washington's student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus Gregory "Pappy" Boyington of "Black Sheep Squadron" fame amid concerns a military hero who shot down enemy planes was not the right kind of person to represent the school."

WorldNetDaily: The U.N.'s plans for global socialist rule

"At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, the United Nations Development Program promoted its plan to rule the world through a global socialist economic system. The plan is detailed in a book entitled "The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges", published by Oxford University Press."

Dark Elves: The FBI takes down ELF

"The indictments and arrests may have broken the back of the Earth Liberation Front--which the FBI has concluded is our most serious domestic terrorism threat. They estimate that the group's members have caused $100 million in damages since the mid-1990s."

WorldNetDaily: Saddam's general: 'WMD's were flown out of Iraq!'

"Well here I can say 2,000 times, that the WMD's were in Iraq, and that they were used against Kurds in the north, and people in the south against Shia people, and these weapons were there up to the summer of the year 2002. The thing he did was, he converted two aircraft, two airplanes, a 747 Jumbo, and a 727 and WMD's, raw materials, many other equipment were put in that two aircraft, by the special Republican Guard, in a very secret way and they were transported to Syria to Damascus and they did 56 flights, to make all – whatever has to do with weapons of mass destruction to be in Syria. AND besides to that, 18-wheel tractor trucks, civilian trucks, were also loaded of what couldn't go in the aircraft, and this was also transported to Syria."

FrontPage magazine.com :: Cartoon Rage vs. Freedom of Speech by Robert Spencer

Muslim rage over cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad published in early October in a Danish newspaper continues to grow worldwide. Here they are: