A white cross suspended on a blood red rectangle buckles and ripples in the wind atop a freshly painted flagpole, inspiring pride and patriotism in all those who see it. This is the view from my desk ...

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for The Explainer’s free daily podcast on iTunes. First, many of the protesters are using handmade flags. (Improvisation is nothing new: ...

Hundreds of angry Muslim youths rallied in major cities in Pakistan on Friday and torched Danish flags to protest against the recent republication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed. Hundreds of ...

You only had one job. One ‘patriot’ painted their St George’s Cross spectacularly wrong, inverting the colours, leaving their decorative roundabout with a more Scandinavian feel. In the excitement of ...

Hundreds of Muslim protesters ripped apart and burned Danish flags in a noisy rally yesterday at the Danish honorary consulate in Manila's financial district over the controversial Prophet Mohammed ...