UNITED NATIONS- Pakistan teenager Malala Yousafzai said Saturday that she does not want to be known as the girl the Taliban tried to kill but as "the girl who struggled for her rights." A day after...

WANA SOUTH WAZIRISTAN- The Pakistani Taliban have banned tight or see-through clothing for men, threatening to impose a fine and shutter businesses selling the items, traders from the country's...

JOHANNESBURG, Charlotte Plantive, Johannes Myburgh- A grave-digging dispute has added to the bitter family feuding, over sex, money and power, among Nelson Mandela's heirs which has set South...

VATICAN CITY, Dario Thuburn- Pope Francis gave the go-ahead on Friday for John Paul II to be made saint and granted a rare exception for canonisation at the same time for John XXIII, who had the same...

TUNIS- Three European women with the radical protest group Femen were freed from a Tunisian jail Wednesday after receiving suspended sentences for baring their breasts in public. The three activists...

JOHANNESBURG- Homophobia in sub-Saharan Africa has reached "dangerous levels" with more countries passing laws criminalising same-sex relations, a report released Tuesday by Amnesty International...

TOKYO, Harumi Ozawa- Going straight after a lifetime spent as a member of Japan's feared yakuza organised crime mobs poses a number of challenges. Chief among them is what to do about the fingers you...

HALABJA, Mohamad Ali Harissi- Between pots of glue and scraps of cotton, Bahjat Majeed sits cross-legged in his tiny workshop, putting the final touches on a pair of handmade shoes traditionally...

GUWAHATI- At least 18 tribal villagers in India's northeast were arrested for hacking to death a man they suspected of practising witchcraft, police said Saturday. They claimed they were told to kill...