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San FranciscoThe "Patriot Prayer" rally in the US coastal city of San Francisco, originally scheduled for Saturday afternoon, was cancelled and the park where it was going to be held was walled off by authorities. Several hundred people had announced a plan to allow their dogs to poo on the protest site in advance of the event.

WashingtonTen sailors were killed when a US Navy Destroyer collided with a merchant vessel off the coast of Singapore on 21 August. Initially the Navy reported that the 10 were missing, but subsequently found “some of the remains” in flooded compartments.

AmsterdamIn their latest update on the investigation into the Moroccan "diabetic patient" who rammed into pedestrians at Amsterdam Central Station on June 10, police announced that a staff member of the North Holland police unit has been arrested.

ParisFrench Le Point magazine reported on Thursday that President Emmanuel Macron spent €26 000 on makeup in his first three months as leader of his country.

INTERVIEWAlternative für Deutschland is under coordinated attack from the mainstream media for alleged Russian contacts. Manuel Ochsenreiter, a journalist often travelling to post Soviet republics, is especially targeted in the smear campaign. In an exclusive interview, he explains why.

OldhamThe convicted Pakistani Muslim sex grooming gang ringleader lived in Oldham, in the UK. So it came as little surprise that many would be outraged when a blogger suggested that Oldham Council has adopted a Muslim prayer to open its sessions.

VeniceThe mayor of Venice, Italy, has ordered the police to shoot down anyone who shouts "Allahu Akbar", rather than risk a terror attack. The phrase in Arabic has been heard in multiple terrorist incidents in Europe.

The US president, Donald Trump, has a "slavish regard for the military and business elites now stocking his cabinet", The Economist noted in an interview with fired White House strategist Steve Bannon. That also means more troops in Afghanistan.

WashingtonFormer CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson has had enough of the world's tweeting boss, president Donald Trump.

The HagueThe way independent Dutch news sites like GeenStijl and The Post Online dealt with the collision at Amsterdam Central in early June was, "scandalous" Paul Römer, Dutch NTR director and Casper Sikkema, editor-in-chief of VICE, told Mediaforum this week.