A planned car bomb attack on the Danish embassy in Jakarta was foiled after a terrorist cell was unravelled last week, say Indonesian police. The intended violence is believed to have been in response to cartoon drawings of the Prophet Muhammad that were published in a Danish newspaper. Read the full story

Comedy Central’s affiliate broadcaster in Sweden has announced it will not be airing two controversial episodes of the satirical South Park cartoon which feature the Muslim prophet Mohammed wearing a bear costume. Read the full story

The flag outside the Swedish embassy in Malaysia was set on fire last week in a protest against newspaper caricatures of the Muslim Prophet Mohammad. Read the full story

The personification of the controversial cartoon crisis which has plagued Denmark over the past four years, Kurt Westergaard, has declared that his inflammatory drawing was not of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed and has blamed imams for inciting violence. Read the full story

The financial cost of protecting Mohammed cartoonist Kurt Westergaard is becoming an increasing burden on the Danish government. Read the full story

The Somali man at the centre of the attempted murder of a Danish cartoonist has denied the charges. Read the full story

After weeks of speculation from the public and deflection from Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark’s Prime Minister finally announced he was in fact interested in taking over the secretary-generalship of NATO. He was subsequently approved by all of the 28 member states at their conference in Strasbourg and Kehl late last week. Rasmussen will not likely return to Danish politics, even after his time at NATO ends.

Politiken reports that of the 28 nations in NATO, only Turkey had concerns about Rasmussen’s appointment to NATO’s top spot. This stems from the earlier controversy surrounding cartoons considered insulting by Muslims published in Danish newspapers. Behind-the-scenes lobbying and an apology from Rasmussen eventually secured Turkey’s approval. Read the full story

One of the two Tunisians who were allegedly plotting to kill the cartoonist who drew the 2006 controversial drawings of the prophet Mohammed has been released from Danish prison into society. The sensitive court case has been heard at every level of Denmark’s legal system, but eventually the Supreme Court ruled there was not enough evidence to continue detaining the remaining suspect, known only as SC. Read the full story

A recently released video of a senior al-Qaeda commander, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, has threatened fresh attacks against Danish interests around the globe over its printing of offensive cartoons in 2005 featuring the Prophet Mohammed. Although Mustafa Abu al-Yazid was reportedly killed in July during an air strike in the tribal hinterlands of Pakistan, his death remains Read the full story