“The incident in Mogadishu looks like the one on a US plane,” Loyan said, adding that “concerned security agencies have opened a file for further investigation”.

State television showed footage of the demonstrations in several Iranian cities, where people shouted slogans against the opposition and in favour of the president after unrest at the weekend in which police clashed with opposition protestors.

Tens of thousands also gathered in Tehran to counter the anti-Ahmadinejad protests held Sunday during the Shiite mourning ceremonies of Ashura.

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A good example of this argument comes from University of Calgary Prof. David Mayne Reid, who recently penned a column in which he denied the importance of Climategate.

Unfortunately for Reid, however, old saws won’t work today: Climategate has blazed across the Internet, the blogosphere and social-networking sites. Even environmentalist writer George Monbiot has recognized that the public’s perception of climate science has been extensively damaged and has called for one of the Climategate ringleaders to resign.

The protests, which erupted after Ahmadinejad’s re-election, shook the pillars of the 30-year-old Islamic regime, split its clerical elite and prompted supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to publicly support the president.

The deepening political schism has turned some of those who helped build the regime after the 1979 Islamic revolution into its most bitter critics.

The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field’s movements by tracking how Earth’s magnetic field has been changing at the surface and in space.

Now, newly analyzed data suggest that there’s a region of rapidly changing magnetism on the core’s surface, possibly being created by a mysterious “plume” of magnetism arising from deeper in the core.

And it’s this region that could be pulling the magnetic pole away from its long-time location in northern Canada, said Arnaud Chulliat, a geophysicist at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris in France

Abdulmutallab arrived in Amsterdam on Friday from Lagos, Nigeria. After a layover of less than three hours, he passed through a security check at the gate in Amsterdam, including a hand baggage scan and a metal detector, officials said.

Abdulmutallab was carrying a valid Nigerian passport and had a valid U.S. visa, the Dutch said. His name did not appear on any Dutch list of terror suspects.

After the Christmas Day near disaster in Detroit, it is time for Americans to demand effective anti-terrorist actions.

Over eight years after 9/11 and 30 years after the Iranian illegal seizure of the United States embassy and the 444 day Iranian hostage crisis, Washington is still avoiding being intellectually honest about the war we are in.

The president and his top advisers now believe there is “some linkage” with al-Qaeda, and the administration is “increasingly confident” that the terror group worked with suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to secure the chemical mixture that he took aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253, a senior administration official said yesterday.