McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD), the US-based fast-food restaurant chain headquartered in Illinois long known for its beef-based burgers of all shapes and sizes announced plans on Tuesday to open its first ever vegetarian-exclusive restaurants in India.
A female news presenter appeared on the Egyptian state television wearing a headscarf Sunday for the first time since an unwritten ban on women covering their head during telecast was lifted after the Muslim Brotherhood-led government took charge.
The 2007 suicides of Duncan and Blake posthumously captured the imaginations of countless people who had never heard of the couple but were haunted by images published in news stories and on the Web. Five years later, questions remain about the media coverage of their deaths,
This was supposed to be Mitt Romney's moment. Instead, his speech sounded like one long repudiation of President Obama, with a few policy points thrown in.
Mitt Romney accepted the Republican nomination for president on Thursday night with a speech proclaiming XXX
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi announced his presence at the 16th Non-Aligned Movement Summit by announcing Egypt's support for the Syrian Free Army. This did not sit will with Syria, or with the summit's host country, Iran, one of Assad's closest allies.
Married Atlanta pastor Craig Lamar Davis is facing allegations of having affairs with two women and not telling them that he has HIV.
Warning: Spoilers ahead! Before the opening credits can even begin, "True Blood's" season five finale, "Save Yourself," shocks viewers by...
"Denial of evolution is unique to the United States," Bill Nye claims in a video posted on the Big Think channel at YouTube on Friday. The scientist and former TV personality had harsh words for the creationist theory, saying it could have a negative effect if it is taught to children.
The Syrian civil war has sparked new levels of violence in neighboring Lebanon.
The botched restoration of a Jesus fresco in Spain quickly spread over the Internet Thursday. After Spanish officials thought vandals had destroyed the artwork of Jesus wearing the crown of thrones it was later revealed that an elderly parishioner had tried to touch it up the painting. In reality, she did anything but and, honestly, it’s not that big of a deal.
Despite the tensions between Iran and Israel and confusion in the Persian Jewish community, many Persian Jews say they support Israel attacking Iran.
The Iranian regime has good reason to restrict young people's access to education, regardless of gender.
The RNC's 2012 platform calls for annual audits of the Federal Reserve, bans all legal recognition of same-sex couples, and prohibits abortion in cases of rape and incest.
Mila Kunis, James Franco and Casey Affleck are joining "Third Person," the first film project for Paul Haggis since his bitter departure from the Church of Scientology was detailed in the New Yorker.
Naidoo’s inflammatory comments have been sharply criticized.
Myanmar's Information Ministry, which has long sought to control information, told newspaper editors that their articles 'no longer need to pass the censorship board.' The announcement is being met with enthusiasm and caution.
Tourists are banned entry at shrines and temples if they are not dressed conservatively.
At one point, Mintoff said Malta was part of the ?Arab world? ? a stark symbolic separation from its long British identity.
Details of the incident are murky, but one thing is clear -- had it not been for the girl's arrest, she might not be alive Monday.
The grisly scenes unfolding in the far-flung northeast may fan communal politics in a country where simmering tensions between Hindus and Muslims have often been exploited for electoral gain.
Though he denies it today, presumptive Republican Party vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan?s primary economic and fiscal influence was Ayn Rand, an extremely conservative thinker whose flawed economic and social theories were only outdone in perniciousness by her utter disregard for society and the common good.
