TERRORIST THREAT

  • Al Qaeda drone attacks on US? Soon it won’t be so far-fetched.
  • Model plane bomb plot tests U.S. antiterrorism strategy at home

THE MIDDLE EAST TINDERBOX

  • Assad Warns to Set Fire on Middle-East in Case of US Attack
  • Syria clergyman threatens West with suicide attacks
  • Iran Says Its New Cruise Missile Can ‘Sink Giant Warships’

KNOWLEDGE INCREASED

  • Body suit may soon enable the paralyzed to walk
  • Scientists use cloning to make human stem cells

CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

  • Christian café owner warned by police over Bible verse display
  • Condemned pastor won’t renounce faith
  • Case of Iranian Pastor Facing Death Penalty Reportedly in Hands of Supreme Leader
  • Girl’s school expulsion for blasphemy alarms British Pakistani Christians
  • Coptic Church torched in Egypt
  • Thousands of Egyptians march in Cairo’s Tahrir square for Copt’s funeral

NEWS FROM RUSSIA

  • Putin to return as Russian president
  • Russia’s Putin says wants to build “Eurasian Union”
  • Analysts Say Medvedev-Putin Job Swap No Surprise
  • Russia Condemns U.S. Missile Defense Deal, Warns of New Era of Cold War

Plagues and Pestilences

  • Dangerous TB spreading at alarming rate in Europe
  • Somalia famine: UN warns of 750,000 deaths

Mark of the Beast Technology

  • Electronic skin tattoo has medical, gaming, spy uses

The One World Order

  • Former German leader calls for “United States of Europe”
  • Eurozone crisis could rip EU apart: officials
  • Western, Muslim societies ‘irreconcilable’: poll

“…thine enemies shall …compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side……”

  • Israel expects to fight Weapons of Mass Destruction in ‘multi-front war’
  • IDF general: Likelihood of regional war growing
  • Ahmadinejad: Iran is determined to eradicate Israel
  • PLO official: Palestinian state to be free of Jews
  • ‘Warships could be in E. Mediterranean at any moment’
  • Report: Turkish warplanes now able to fire at Israeli targets
  • ‘Turkish hackers preparing cyber-attack on Israeli sites’
  • Iran parliament voices support for attack on Israeli embassy in Cairo
  • ‘Palestinians officially begin UN state bid plans
  • UN Secretary General: Palestinian statehood is ‘long overdue’
  • Analysis: Blair has major, unheralded role in Mideast talks

Contending for the Faith

  • Quran? Torah? Churches ‘will have to choose’
  • AD and BC ruled out of date for national curriculum
  • Killer words: Muslims text death threats to Christians
  • Evangelicals Left Off National Cathedral 9/11 Program
  • ‘Exterminate Christians, close pyramids, Sphinx’
  • Report shows rise in restrictions on religion

Cyber-Insecurity

  • Iran says U.S. ‘will be taught the mother of all lessons’
  • U.S. Cybercops Caught Flat-Footed by Massive Global Cyberattack
  • “State actor” behind slew of cyber attacks
  • You hack, we shoot: Pentagon discusses armed counterstrikes to cyberattacks

Contending for the Faith

  • Dutch rethink Christianity for a doubtful world
  • Iranian Pastor Sentenced to Death Could Be Executed if He Doesn’t Recant
  • ‘Rapture’ real aftermath: Beheadings, shootings, mass graves
  • Great darkness in Egypt
  • Saudi Arabia’s ‘Anti-Witchcraft Unit’ breaks another spell