Society

Angry spirits blamed for schoolgirls fainting in Cambodia - 10/24/2010

PHNOM PENH- Teachers of 10 teenage girls who collapsed one after another at their rural Cambodian school blamed the mysterious ailment on angry spirits on Saturday. The girls, aged between 14 and...

HRW slams UAE court ruling on men beating wives - 10/20/2010

DUBAI- Human Rights Watch has slammed a ruling by an Emirati court which condones the beating of wives by their husbands, saying it sends out a signal that violence against women and children is...

Study predicts women in power, Muslims heading West - 10/18/2010

WASHINGTON, Karin Zeitvogel- In the next 40 years, an unprecedented number of women will be in positions of power, Muslim immigration to the West will rise, and office workers will be unchained from...

Runaway chimp joins university class in Gaza - 10/16/2010

GAZA CITY- A female student at Al-Quds University in the Gaza Strip attended class on Saturday only to find she was not the first to arrive and had been beaten to it by a young male chimpanzee....

German bid at multi-cultural society has failed: Merkel - 10/16/2010

BERLIN- Germany's attempts to create a multi-cultural society in which people from various cultural backgrounds live together peacefully have failed, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday....

Woman acquitted of abuse charges at Oprah's S.African school - 10/11/2010

JOHANNESBURG- A former dormitory matron at Oprah Winfrey's elite South African school was found not guilty Monday of sexually assaulting girls at the academy the US star founded outside...

Saudi women fight for control of their marital fate - 10/04/2010

RIYADH- Women in Saudi Arabia are fighting back against tribal traditions that make them hostage to the whims of their fathers and male guardians who alone can decide who their future husbands will...

Swedish Mohammed artist to finish lecture after attack - 09/27/2010

STOCKHOLM- A Swedish artist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed as a dog will speak again at the same university where he was attacked during a lecture in May, Uppsala University said Monday....

Texas school board tries to curtail "pro-Islam" textbooks - 09/25/2010

CHICAGO- The Texas board of education voted Friday to curtail what it sees as a "pro-Islam/anti-Christian" bias in textbooks, vowing to reject any books which paint Islam in too favorable a light....

Seized warders freed as Lebanon prison riot ends - 09/21/2010

TRIPOLI- Inmates who rioted at a Lebanese prison on Monday freed six warders they had taken hostage to press for better conditions and reduced sentences, a security official said. "After several...
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