BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Russian protest band Pussy Riot is planning a concert in Alabama to benefit Planned Parenthood after the state passed the nation’s toughest anti-abortion law.
BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Nigel Farage has said the British are a nation of “lions led by donkeys” and that the people must “fight back” against the “career political class” in an impassioned speech to a Brexit Party rally.
Parents do not have a veto over what their children can be taught in schools, the British Education minister has said.
A man has been detained under the Mental Health Act after a series of widely reported vandalism attacks against a number of mosques in the United Kingdom, which hit the headlines in the aftermath of the Christchurch New Zealand mosque shootings.
West Midlands Police’s counterterrorism unit is investigating after five mosques in the Birmingham area were vandalised.
As many as 80 per cent of pupils are being kept home from Parkfield Community School in protest at what parents described as the “aggressive” promotion of homosexuality in the classroom.
The number of children being treated at hospital in the UK with stab wounds has nearly doubled in five years.
Trevor Phillips has accused the BBC of “whitewashing” crime stories by not addressing the high number of black-on-black stabbings, and warned politicians and police to stop ignoring the links between race and gang violence.
A Muslim councillor has apologised after Labour activists accused him of attacking the party’s “values and traditions” when he suggested primary school-aged children were “too young” for a curriculum based around celebrating LGBT lifestyles and so-called diversity.
Three people were shot after a fight broke out Thursday night at a shopping mall in Birmingham, Alabama.
A masked gunman allegedly burst in a Birmingham, Alabama, McDonald’s Saturday night only to be shot dead by a father who was dining with his two teenage sons.
A drug dealer has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars for trafficking children across the country to make sales in other towns in the first conviction of its kind in the UK.
A massive street brawl involving around 30 youths in Birmingham city centre has left three people with knife injuries and police hunting 22 suspects.
Police are continuing a massive manhunt for an Afghan national in connection with the brutal murder of his former partner, a Syrian migrant, and her mother.
A Birmingham Labour councillor has been handed an important role planning the Commonwealth Games, despite facing serious corruption allegations and previously being forced to resign as an “equalities” spokesman after allegedly bullying a Christian school.
A balaclava-wearing, machete-wielding thug has been left with serious head injuries after being mowed down by a speeding car as he chased down a rival with the sword-like weapon.
A Muslim teacher who labelled homosexuals “animals” who should be “eradicated” has lost a claim of unfair dismissal, where he argued he was discriminated against because he is Muslim.
A 47-year-old woman suffered an ‘acid attack’ by a passing bike rider in Ladywood, Birmingham, on Tuesday after Britain’s diverse second city saw “unprecedented violence” over the weekend.
A victim of a Pakistani rape gang has said that at one point during her abuse, she was trafficked to the North African country of Morocco where she was prostituted and repeatedly raped.
Britain’s Poundland discount chain has announced it will stop selling kitchen knives in all of its stores to help tackle soaring youth violence. The company, whose stores have been a major fixture on UK high streets since 1990, is the
By the time of the next census in 2021, white Britons will be a minority in Birmingham, where already in 2013 less than a third of schoolchildren were recorded as white, an official report has said.
Paramedics in the West Midlands are dealing with 30 stabbing and shooting attacks a week, it has emerged in data published days after police came under fire for its slow response to a crazed machete attacker in Birmingham city centre.
Birmingham council has appointed a controversial Muslim Labour member who has previously claimed that Islamic State does not exist and has dismissed Islamist attacks to a committee tasked with protecting children from radicalisation and terrorism.
A journalist has been allowed a rare glimpse into the workings of Britain’s secretive Sharia Courts, which can preside over business, marriage, and financial disputes in the Muslim community under the Arbitration Act of 1996.
Candidates who have denied the existence of Islamic State, spread anti-Semitism and homophobia online, and have been convicted of serious voter fraud are set to stand for Labour and as independents in Birmingham council elections, one of the UK’s most corrupt local authorities.
A British actor perhaps best known for playing Emperor Palpatine, Darth Sidious in the American science fiction franchise Star Wars has been selected to play the role of Enoch Powell in a programme Saturday marking the 50th anniversary of Powell’s famous Birmingham speech.
The Times newspaper has run a series of articles claiming the Football Lads Alliance (FLA) is “racist” because of anecdotal claims about politically incorrect jokes and chants at their peaceful marches.
A shopkeeper who witnessed a mass brawl which ended with one teenager being stabbed multiple times and another having a corrosive substance thrown in his face in multicultural Birmingham said he was “used to” such scenes.
Around 5,000 people have protested against recent terror attacks and extremism, and in support of the victims of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings thought to have been organised by the IRA.
Soap star turned investigative journalist Ross Kemp has said he had to wear the same body armour he wore in Syria while filming in Birmingham, England.
MONTGOMERY, Alabama – It would be a mild understatement to say Tuesday’s outcome in the Alabama U.S. Senate special election was a shocker.
OZARK, Alabama – Now that the fat lady is finally warming up to sing the finale in what has been the never-ending saga of Alabama’s U.S. Senate special election cycle, there are a few things spectators can watch for before
Alabama candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug Jones worked for a Democratic politician’s foundation caught in a still-unraveling bribery scandal, according to a new report from local WHNT19 News.
Counter-terror officials believe a serious, well-advanced Islamic extremist terror plot against the UK has been foiled after two potential jihadists were arrested.
Monday on Birmingham, AL’s ABC affiliate WBMA, the channel’s political reporter Lauren Walsh revealed both Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Roy Moore and his Democratic opponent Doug Jones have had significant fundraising hauls since allegations first surfaced accusing Moore of inappropriate
The UK’s second city, Birmingham, could “explode” in a “tsunami of child sexual exploitation” with ruthless men even using tasers on young girls, a politician with knowledge of the area warned.
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – On Thursday surrounded by supporters, former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore went on offense at an event titled #StandWithRoyMoore, with the media and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as his targets. Moore attacked The Washington
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has been slammed for appearing to support an event where speakers were expected to defend the Trojan Horse plotters and argue the scandal was part of an anti-Muslim conspiracy. The event – titled “Trojan Horse:
Segregating boys from girls in a state-funded Muslim secondary school classroom is unlawful sex discrimination, a court has found.
A 14-year-old boy who was knifed in the head and neck outside a Shia mosque in Birmingham was the victim of a sectarian attack, his family have said.
