A Danish judge has denied the libel claim of a group of Muslims, filed over the cartoons published in the newspaper Jyllands-Posten that satirized the Prophet Muhammad.

NATO is investigating claims that clashes between its troops and the Taliban in the volatile Panjwaii district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province claimed at least 60 civilian lives.

The British Conservative Party is furious with the Beeb for running interviews with the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand province. British army troops are fiercely battling the Taliban there.

But government Commons leader Jack Straw said the UK is a democracy, and the Beeb had every right to air the interview. The Beeb itself weighs in at the Editor's Blog.