LONDON- A British town said Wednesday it had axed a school twinning partnership with Abbottabad in Pakistan where Osama bin Laden was killed, but said the move should not reflect badly on the...

PARIS, Dorothee Moisan - A French woman claiming to have been brainwashed by the secretive Catholic society Opus Dei is suing it for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, she told...

JERUSALEM- Colombian pop diva Shakira said on Tuesday that education was the best way to achieve global stability and peace after meeting Israeli and Palestinian school children on a visit to...

WASHINGTON- US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised the issue of Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving when she spoke with her Saudi counterpart Prince Saud al-Faisal, an official said Monday....

RIYADH- Defiant Saudi women got behind the wheels of their cars Friday in response to calls for nationwide action to break a traditional ban unique to the ultra-conservative kingdom. The call,...

BERLIN, Deborah Cole- The man who typed up Oskar Schindler's list which helped save more than 1,000 Jews from the Nazis, Mietek Pemper, has died in Germany aged 91, the Bavarian city where he lived...

BEIJING- China on Tuesday executed a music student convicted of stabbing a woman to death after hurting her in a car crash, a crime that sparked national debate over China's "rich second...

LONDON- Britain's universities are complacent in tackling Islamic extremism on campus, the interior minister warned Monday. Home Secretary Theresa May said universities were not taking the issue...

WASHINGTON- Saudi activists have written an open letter to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a champion of women's rights around the world, urging her to publicly press Saudi Arabia to let women...