VATICAN CITY- The Vatican on Friday called on religious and civil authorities to stop inter-religious violence in a message to Muslims for the coming end of the Ramadan fasting month in early...
LONDON - British authorities said Tuesday they would question a woman caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin, as the footage gained notoriety on the Internet.
The 20-second clip shows the...
PETROSANI, Anca Teodorescu - Back in his once flourishing but now economically depressed mining town, Gabriel, a 33-year-old Romanian Roma just expelled from France, is anxious about the future for...
RIYADH- Popular Saudi minister and poet Ghazi al-Gosaibi, who as envoy to Britain sparked outrage with an ode to a Palestinian suicide bomber, died Sunday at age 70, official Al-Akhbariya TV said....
BAN TAKEH, Daniel Rook- Armed soldiers guard the road leading to Malatee Porsotee's village school in southern Thailand while security volunteers with rifles keep watch over the classrooms....
SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran- Harvard topped a Chinese ranking of world universities published Friday for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe....
DUBAI- A 14-year-old Brazilian girl was sentenced to jail in Abu Dhabi, then deportation, for having had "consensual sex" with a Pakistani school bus driver, local newspapers said Wednesday.
The...
MANILA- Beatings and sexual harassment are rife in state-run schools in the Philippines, with many pupils also routinely bullied, according to a government-led study published this week.
Schools...
SANAA, Jamal al-Jaberi- After their father died two years ago, Raseel and Anwar left their family to work in a car garage, joining the millions of Yemeni children forced into the impoverished...
NEW YORK- A US court on Thursday ruled that a New Jersey couple who gave their three children Nazi-themed names should not be allowed custody.
The decision by the New Jersey state appeals court...