Malaysia's High Court Thursday granted a Hindu woman custody of her child after a bitter court battle with her estranged Muslim husband, who converted their children to Islam and then took possession of...

A British Muslim man, who worked at a British Airways call centre, has been charged with preparing an act of...

The Pennsylvania woman linked this week to an alleged terrorist plot involving militant Muslims was not known in her neighbourhood for her extreme religious...

Researchers have turned their attention to people's belief in rumours that significantly misrepresented Barack Obama's faith during the 2008 presidential...

The death of the highest authority in the Sunni Islamic world, the rector of Al-Azhar. Challenged for some positions, but a courageous figure who has sought to harmonize the demands of faith and...

(Reuters) - Bosnia's war crimes prosecutor on Thursday indicted three former Bosnian Muslim soldiers over the killing of more than 20 Croat civilians and prisoners of war during the Muslim-Croat...

A dolphin swims in a pool in Taiji, southwestern Japan, where visitors can play with the animals. The Japanese fishing village was featured in "The Cove," which won an Oscar for best documentary....

SAN FRANCISCO: Last year, Palm thought it had all the pieces for a turnaround in the market it pioneered: A new CEO known for making the iPod a household name, a sleek new smart phone called the Pre...

BOSTON: Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go...

LUANDA: Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a...

(AP) — KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian court Thursday granted an ethnic Indian woman custody of her child in a bitter dispute with her Muslim-convert husband, in a ruling that could ease...

Mexican business tycoon Carlos Slim Helu, now tagged as the world's richest man, first showed a talent for business as a 10-year-old kid when he filled his pockets with pesos selling drinks and...

VANCOUVER: Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on Tuesday. The airline was...

EU OTTAWA: Canadian parliamentarians tucked into a meal of seal meat on Wednesday to defy both animal right activists and the European Union, which has banned imports of seal products. Some two dozen...

SINGAPORE: The Asia-Pacific region staged a strong showing in the latest list of the world's super-rich compiled by Forbes magazine, as the number of billionaires from the region jumped 80 per cent...

H.A.H.: The challenges facing Switzerland are similar in some ways to those facing other European countries – and those challenges are also distinct from the Muslim presence. The Swiss, like all...

Malaysia's High Court Thursday granted a Hindu woman custody of her child after a bitter court battle with her estranged Muslim husband, who converted their children to Islam and then took possession...

JEDDAH: Officials said on Wednesday that they consider the fire on Monday at a municipality archive in Aziziyah district to have been an act of arson. The fire destroyed all files and paperwork, some...

TABUK: A judge in Tabuk fined a veterinarian and sentenced him to four months in jail and deportation after finding him guilty of blackmailing a woman in an attempt to get her to have sex with him....

JEDDAH: Yanbu police arrested a housemaid who has been accused of putting a child in coma after he fell from her hands on Wednesday, according to a police report. The child was admitted to Yanbu...

Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to...

In this June 26, 1997 booking photo released by the Tom Green County Jail in San Angelo, Texas, is shown Colleen R. LaRose. LaRose, the self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue...

Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's High Court on Thursday granted a Hindu woman custody of her child after a bitter court battle with her estranged Muslim husband, who converted their children to Islam and...

Berlin, Mar 10, IRNA -- Germany's main Islamic organizations have threatened to boycott government talks after the Council of Islam was barred from such regular consultations with Berlin about the...

11-03-2010 Several of Sweden's top newspapers republished a political cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, a day after seven people were arrested in connection with an alleged plot to...

11-03-2010 By Pazir Gul MIRAMSHAH, (Dawn): At least 14 people were killed and three others injured in two attacks by US drones in Maizer Madakhel area of Datakhel tehsil in North Waziristan on...

11-03-2010 By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Israeli soldiers, undercover forces and policemen attacked and wounded on Monday evening, two Palestinians in Al Bustan neighborhood, in East Jerusalem,...

11-03-2010 By Ghassan Bannoura IMEMC News & Agencies: A group of armed Israeli settlers attack on Wednesday the village of Bureen northern West Bank and destroyed a car there.Witnesses told media...

11-03-2010 Srinagar, Jammyu & Kashmir, India, (Greater Kashmir): Work in all government and semi-government offices remain paralysed in Jammu and Kashmir on the second consecutive day Wednesday on...

11-03-2010 Dutch News:Anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders is damaging the Netherlands' reputation abroad, caretaker foreign minister Maxime Verhagen said on Wednesday. Speaking at the opening of a...

The office of Imam Talal Eid, the Muslim chaplain on campus, sustained the most damage. His Koran was taken, a computer was unplugged, and a door showed signs of tampering. (Michele Mcdonald for The...

Washington, March 11 : Researchers have turned their attention to people's belief in rumours that significantly misrepresented Barack Obama's faith during the 2008 presidential...

Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Muslim separatists on Thursday shot dead three Thai telephone repairmen and a 61-year-old salesman in two incidents in the violence-racked southern province of Pattani,...

NEW YORK -- The green-eyed, blond woman living in a Philadelphia suburb fit the stereotypical profile of a "Main Street" American: Neighbours would see Colleen LaRose shopping, and stopped to say...

Paris - Anyone who craves a real hamburger probably wouldn't switch willingly to turkey meat, unless it was part of a diet. Indeed, some people might be put out if they had no choice in the kind of...

Washington — The U.S. Constitution requires that a census be taken of the American people every 10 years. The purpose? To determine the number of representatives in the U.S. Congress and to...

An undated image obtained on Mar. 9, 2010 shows a a photo from a website authorities say was maintained by terror suspect Colleen LaRose, an American woman known as "Jihad...

Pakistan security officials look for evidence in an office of the World Vision aid agency after militants attacked it in Mansehra district, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province,...

I felt they were all laughing about my friend and I going on about our trip to this ancient sleepy town in Saudi Arabia, but I didn’t care. They could laugh all they wanted. I was looking forward...

MEXICO CITY: The son of an immigrant shopkeeper has become the first person from a developing nation, and the first from Latin America, to be named the world's richest...

If you telephone DHL Express to trace an overnight shipment or to arrange delivery of your new credit card, you might speak to one of the three dozen women who work in Al-Khobar as part of DHL...

Hypothyroidism, or under-active thyroid, is more common in women than men. There are two thyroid conditions overactive and underactive, and the television presenter, Oprah Winfrey has recently...

Photo released Tuesday by MySpace showing Jason Hirschhorn, 38, left, and Mike Jones, 34, right, at the MySpace headquarters in Beverly Hills, California on Monday. The two new co-presidents of...

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure calling for President Barack Obama to pull US forces from Afghanistan, in an election-year test of his...

FRESNO, California: When a voracious pest triggered a quarantine this week across much of Napa Valley - the United States' premier grape-growing region - it threatened more than the grapes...

VATICAN CITY: Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff...

KOTA BARU: Pas' objective of working together with DAP was to bring Islam closer to the non-Muslims in the Chinese-dominated party, says the party's spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik...

Twenty-four Filipinos, most of them civil servants, were stranded at the city's international airport for six hours on Tuesday after the tour operator who was supposed to meet them failed to...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo salutes next to Lt. Gen. Delfin Bangit (R), the new chief of staff of the Philippines' armed forces, and Bangit's predecessor Gen. Victor Ibrado during...