Watch this video of an Alabama Police Officer harassing a petite videographer as she tries to video tape a oil spill clean up worker as she is being taken away in an ambulance.

ISLAMABAD: ISI chief Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha said Thursday that the policy against terrorism should be co-related with the national interest. “The foreign powers are involved in terrorism and destabilization of the country,” said DG ISI. During a briefing in the National Security Committee session headed by Senator Raza Rabbani, DG ISI Ahmed Shuja Pasha said that the western powers are involved in the terror activities of the country. “The US policy against terrorism is under consideration and the changes will be brought with time in accordance with the national interest,” he said. PressTV: Pakistan explosion death toll hits 65.

After Israel attacked the Turkish “Marmara” solidarity ship trying to send humanitarian and medical supplies to Gaza, and killed nine nonviolent activists before towing the ship to Haifa, Haifa mayor, Yona Yahav, presented a plan that aims at turning the ship into a floating hotel. Israel attacked and seized the ship nearly a month and a half ago, and took it to Haifa port where it still stands heavily guarded by the Israeli military and navy. After attacking the ship, Israel claimed it would transfer the humanitarian supplies to Gaza but did not decide what to do with the Turkish ship itself while Turkey is demanding releasing the ship and sending it back to Ankara. Israeli Paper, Maariv, said that Haifa mayor decided not to wait until Israel decides the fate of the ship, and sent an urgent letters to the Israeli Defense Ministry demanding Defense Minister, Ehud Barak, to confiscate the ship and turn it into a tourist project.

During the weekly protest yesterday in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih, two Israeli demonstrators were violently arrested by IDF soliders. These activists, Matan Cohen and Yonathan Shapria, were standing among a group of children and other Palestinian and Israeli demonstrators when the army made a brash decision to arrest them. After the arrest, the IDF Spokesman’s unit tweeted, “2 arrested rioters in Nabi Salih who attacked an IDF soldier now in Israeli Police custody, the soldier is uninjured”.

Hezbollah has denounced CNN for sacking senior editor Octavia Nasr because of her Twitter message praising the late Shia cleric Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah. Hezbollah spokesman Ibrahim Moussawi on Thursday denounced the "intellectual terrorism represented by the firing of journalist Octavia Nasr of CNN after she expressed sadness" at the death of Fadlallah, AFP reported. "This measure reveals the double standard in the West regarding matters in the region and unmasks the United States, which pretends to protect freedom of speech," Moussawi added in a statement. Octavia Nasr was told to leave the US television news network after praising the Lebanese cleric who died from internal bleeding in a Beirut hospital on Sunday. “Sad to hear of the passing of Seyyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot ”, Nasr wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter on Sunday. AWIP: A tweet costs CNN employee her job. AWIP/Khalid Amayreh: The Israeli stranglehold on CNN.

BBC: UK envoy's praise for Lebanon cleric draws Israel anger. When you visited him you could be sure of a real debate, a respectful argument and you knew you would leave his presence feeling a better person. -Frances Guy, British ambassador to Lebanon.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has named James Mattis, a four-star Marine general known for his blunt speech, as the new head of US Central Command. Mattis is an erudite combat veteran known for quoting poetry and openly expressing his enthusiasm for "killing the enemy," Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday. The nomination that was announced on Thursday brought Secretary Gates under fire for choosing a general who was officially rebuked over his remarks in 2005 regarding the killing of Afghans.

"Actually, it's a lot of fun to fight," the Los Angeles Times quoted Mattis as saying. "You know, it's a hell of a hoot... It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right upfront with you. I like brawling."

Despite opposition from the US, Pakistan signed an agreement with Iran on June 13 to go ahead with a $US7.6 billion gas pipeline between the two countries that will provide a desperately-needed supply of energy to Pakistan from 2014. The deal cuts across Washington’s efforts to isolate Iran economically through UN Security Council sanctions and its own unilateral penalties against Tehran’s nuclear programs.

The agreement signed between the Iranian Gas Export Company and the Pakistan Inter State Gas Limited will provide 21.5 million cubic metres of gas daily to Pakistan. The pipeline will run from Iran’s large South Pars gas field. Islamabad will carry out a feasibility study over the next year for its section of the pipeline before beginning construction. US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, has warned that the pipeline agreement could fall foul of Congressional legislation aimed at penalising foreign companies doing business with Tehran, including those engaged in Iran’s energy sector. He told the media on June 20 that it would be “a disaster” if “an agreement was reached which then triggered something under the law.” PressTV: Iran eyes '$30 bn trade' with India.

Babar Ahmad, 35, is the longest-serving prisoner held without charge or trial in the UK. In his first media interview since his arrest on a US extradition warrant in 2004, Mr Ahmad tells Robert Verkaik that he is the forgotten victim of the 'war on terror'. In March 2009, he was awarded £60,000 in compensation after an admission by the UK's anti-terrorist police that they subjected him to 'grave abuse, tantamount to torture' during his first arrest in December 2003. Corresponding via email from a secure isolation unit at Long Lartin prison, he calls on the Government to charge him or release him. Today, the European Court of Human Rights rules on his case.

They aren't just any aliens - they are extraterrestrial life as only one of the universe's best brains could envisage them. Stephen Hawking has taken advantage of the latest computer graphics to display his versions of alien life forms, based on hard science, for a new documentary series, Into the Universe. The British theoretical physicist, trapped in a body paralysed by motor neurone disease, and author of the best seller A Brief History of Time, spent three years to finish the series, which airs this weekend on the Discovery Channel. The 68-year-old suggests in the first episode that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist. He points out the universe has 100 billion galaxies, each with hundreds of millions of stars and that in such a huge place, Earth is unlikely to be the only planet where life has evolved.

It turns out, scientists have figured out how to interpret a Honey Bee’s dance; a Honey Bees dance is where they communicate where to find food, a new home, and things of this nature. Using this information, an experiment was done called the “Schafberg Experiment”, which was named after the mountain it was performed on. The only source of food for a colony was placed on the far side of the mountain. The bees could not fly over the mountain. However, when they communicated where the food was to be found, they communicated this angle exactly across the mountain, relative to themselves, even though it was an angle they had never flown to the food source, but rather would have had to figure out in their head.

Further evidence of this amazing ability and that they take into account the roundness of the earth is found in their typical food finding dances. When Honey Bees dance to communicate where a good food source is, they will dance on a comb surface. The dance consists of the bee turning in circles, on each revolution the bee will bisect the circle at an angle; the angle with respect to the 12 o’clock represents the angle to fly with respect to the sun. For instance, if the bee ran from 6 to 12 o’clock, this would mean fly straight forward towards the sun; 7 to 1 o’clock would mean fly just to the right of the sun; 12 to 6 o’clock, fly directly away from the sun.

NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the federal government's effort to restore an offshore deepwater drilling moratorium, opening the door to resumed drilling in the Gulf while the legal fight continues. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled soon after an afternoon hearing in a lawsuit filed by companies that oppose the drilling ban. The moratorium was struck down June 22 by U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman. The Interior Department argued the moratorium was necessary while it studied deepwater drilling risks in the wake of the BP oil spill. Government lawyers asked the appeals court to let the temporary drilling ban stand until the 5th Circuit ruled on their appeal of the lower-court ruling. A spokeswoman for the Interior Department did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

A member of the US Coast Guard serving as a public affairs specialist in the Deepwater Horizon Response is also employed by a public relations firm hired by BP. Petty Officer Rachel Polish is a Coast Guard reservist whose duties as a media liaison include preparing materials for the press, photographing Coast Guard events and coordinating with Coast Guard units and various external agencies on press events and announcements. An interview with National Incident Commander Thad Allen conducted by Polish appears on the official web site of the Unified Command. At the same time, Polish is also a Vice President of Digital Strategy with Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide where her responsibilities include “creating engaging experiences designed to promote awareness, brand loyalty, advocacy and conversion.” Ogilvy is the PR firm hired by BP to carry out its “A Brighter Tomorrow” campaign.

There can be no doubt that Polish’s dual role is a major conflict of interest. But she would not be the only member of a federal agency or branch of government compromised by ties to BP or the oil industry as a whole. President Obama himself received $77,051 from BP during his presidential campaign. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, when he was still a member of the House of Representatives, lived rent-free for five years in the apartment of Stanley Greenberg, whose firm was heavily involved in a “re-branding” public relations campaign for BP.