Judges in Mexico have refused to release Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, who was serving a 60-year jail term for allegedly participating in a kidnapping ring. Next, the killing of a black high school student sparks a heated debate on race and Florida's lax self-defence laws. Finally, our reporters look at a new report which says the number of mosques in the US has nearly doubled in the past decade, as immigration from Muslim countries increases.
The man who has claimed responsibility for a blaze at a Brussels mosque that left an imam dead said on Tuesday that he set the fire seeking to "scare" Shiites, who he blames for the violence and unrest in Syria.
An imam was killed in a fire after an attack on a Shiite mosque in the Belgium capital of Brussels on Monday night. Police said a man had been arrested after being cornered by staff at the mosque in the suburb of Anderlecht.
We begin with an exclusive report from our France 24 correspondents who managed to film alongside Syria's Free Army, a group united in their opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's rule. Next, we discover how the Islamic call to prayer from Palestinian mosques is causing friction in Israel. Finally, we head to Cairo to take a look at the music of the Egyptian revolution.
Vandals set fire to a mosque near Ramallah in the West Bank on Thursday, the second such attack in as many days and thought to be linked to Israel's plans to dismantle two structures at an illegal Jewish settlement near Nablus.
Israel reopened a controversial access ramp to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem on Wednesday, just 48 hours after it was closed amid safety concerns, prompting angry reactions among Muslims. No work has yet been done to reinforce the ramp.
Jerusalem authorities have ordered the removal of a ramp leading to the sensitive al-Aqsa compound following a complex row between the municipality and local Jewish and Muslim groups. The wooden ramp is said to be a fire hazard.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan on Sunday, killing at least seven civilians, the interior ministry said, adding that preliminary investigation has blamed Taliban.
Arsonists thought to be right-wing extremists attacked a mosque in northern Israel Sunday night, apparently to avenge the death of two Jewish settlers in the West Bank last month. Israeli officials have condemned the attack.
Parisian Muslims escaped a government ban on street prayers Friday when some 5,000 worshippers piled into a makeshift mosque in the north of the capital.
