An American couple of Middle Eastern descent say they and their 18-month-old daughter were asked to get off a JetBlue plane in Florida because they were told the child is on a no-fly list.

A Canadian soldier who served in Afghanistan says he received a threatening note, written by someone within Kandahar Airfield, because he is gay.

Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter for several hours because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, one of the country's top telecom officials says.