Kuala Lumpur, Sep 19: The Malaysian Indian Congress has urged the authorities to arrest anyone who raises issues related to religion and race that can trigger racial problems.

The government must act fast on these people, MIC president S. Samy Vellu told reporters.

He proposed that an inter-race relations council be established to discuss issues concerning religion, language, culture and racial sensitivities.

Samy Vellu said the council could be represented by the various political parties and religious and cultural organisations.

London, Sept 19: Election season is big business — especially for companies selling scores of Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin merchandise.

Now, Mirror. co. uk has gone through all of them and has found products that will surely make you laugh.

The top nine funniest and quirkiest US election merchandise are:

1. Obama print starting at 50 dollars on eBay

2. Candidate punching bags starting at 9.99 dollars on eBay

3. McCain t-shirt, 19.99 dollars

London, Sept. 19: A German far right group has stirred Muslim anger worldwide by holding a three-day "Anti-Islamisation Conference" to protest against the construction of mosques and Muslim immigration.

Prominent members of Europe's far right, including French "Front National" leader Jean-Marie le Pen and Belgian far-right politician Filip Dewinter, have said they will attend the meeting in Cologne which is aimed at forging a European alliance against "Islamisation."

A Times report says that the conference will include a rally in the centre of Cologne tomorrow which police say could lead to clashes with left-wing groups that plan a counter-demonstration.

New York, Sept. 19: Alaska Governor and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has told FOX News in an interview that the inquiry into the firing of her former public safety commissioner, is being tainted by “obsessive partisanship”.

The investigation, which centers on whether Palin punished her public safety chief for refusing to fire a trooper who was going through a nasty divorce with her sister, comes at a potentially damaging time in the political calendar.

London, September 19: The different reactions about Sarah Palin’s selection as the U. S. Republican vice presidential candidate may have a basis in biology, if the findings of a new study are to be believed.

"Traditionally, political scientists have focused on the environmental aspects: school, the media, the family, the church, as the things that lead to beliefs they have," New Scientist magazine quoted Douglas Oxley, a political scientist at the Lincoln-based University of Nebraska, as saying.

London - Sometimes it is difficult not to feel sorry for Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has endured a barrage of savage and public attacks on his leadership over circumstances that are not all entirely of his making.

"Stand aside or be pushed aside" has been the battle cry of a growing band of disgruntled Labour Party parliamentarians who remain unimpressed with Brown's leadership of Britain over the past 15 months.