An Indian Muslim preacher has been banned from entering the UK for his "unacceptable behaviour", the home secretary says. Zakir Naik, a 44-year-old television preacher, had been due to give a series of lectures in London and Sheffield. Theresa May said that visiting the UK was "a privilege, not a right". The home secretary can stop people entering the …

 It’s a perilous world, as our so-called leaders love to remind us. And for a change they’re right. It is a perilous world. But guess who is most responsible for the peril to Americans? Those very same “leaders” and a long line of predecessors. Moreover, they — along with anyone else who takes time to examine the matter — know that …

WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. The previously unknown deposits — including huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals like …

  President Barack Obama has been busy for the past few weeks, thinking of whose ass to kick for the unprecedented environmental damage being caused by the uncontrollable oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He is under fire for not acting decisively or being soft on the culprits — in this case the all powerful British Petroleum and other …

After several months of closed-door negotiations and shuttle diplomacy, the United States succeeded Wednesday in getting a new Security Council resolution – the fourth in a series – imposing a fresh set of sanctions penalising Iran for its nuclear programme. But the most powerful political body at the United Nations refused to give the United States what it needed most …