The United States has been building drone bases across the African continent since 2007, as well as flying old-fashioned ... spy flights, and is spending tens of millions of dollars to track groups like al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Boko Haram.
Though foreigners are now banned from traveling to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Chinese name for Central Tibet, the Himalayan hinterland has experienced a boom in tourism thanks to Chinese visitors.
JetBlue is being sued by 10 passengers, claiming the airline was grossly negligent in allowing pilot Clayton Osbon, who had to be restrained after he burst through the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorism on a March 27 flight from New York to Las Vegas, to man the plane that day.
Though the hardworking actor has consistently been on the radar of theater and movie fans and critics throughout his nearly two decades of indie-leaning character work, the enigmatic Hoffman has rarely made headlines for anything beyond his unforgettable performances.
David Arquette had a Bar Mitzvah on Monday in Israel while filming an episode for a travel show, waiting 27 years to finally become wholly enveloped in his Jewish heritage and finally be a man. The 40-year-old star of ?Scream? had the ceremony at Jerusalem?s Western Wall, one of the Jewish religion?s holiest sites.
Opponents say the ballot initiative, up for a vote on Tuesday, could potentially exempt religious people and groups from discrimination laws in the name of their faith.
Charges of anti-Semitism have been leveled against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is his re-election campaign over state media content that brands opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski as a Zionist.
The world's biggest Muslim country may be headed toward more radicalism and less moderation after banning the American singer for performing in bra and panties.
Since the eruption of violence, 500 houses have been burned or razed in the region, while 5,000 people have become homeless.
Forget New York, Paris or Sydney. Take a closer look at the map, and you?ll find a whole host of overlooked cities just begging to be explored.
A statement from the wife of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been released online, praising the role of women in the Arab Spring uprisings that have toppled authoritarian governments throughout North Africa and the Middle East in the past year and a half.
Creflo Dollar, the influential pastor and founder of World Changers Church International, a megachurch near Atlanta, was arrested on Friday for allegedly choking his 15-year old daughter.
Several travel agencies in China are reporting that foreigners have been banned from traveling to the Tibet Autonomous Region, the Chinese name for Central Tibet.
Caiden Cowger, a 14-year-old conservative talk show host, is making news headlines with his most recent segment. During his latest broadcast, Cowger went on an anti-homosexual rant that suggested the homosexuality problem to be out of control in his home state of West Virginia.
Ulpana is a tiny Israeli settler outpost in the West Bank that has been making headlines after the Israeli Supreme Court said it had to be demolished.
Sylvain Reynard's debut novel Gabriel's Inferno portrays the sultry encounters of a young graduate student, Julianne, and her enigmatic professor, Gabriel Emerson. The romance was hugely popular and fans of the book were eager for a follow up. Their hopes were met when Gabriel's Rapture was released last month. The alluring sequel, which begins in Florence, Italy, focuses on the repercussions of their forbidden love affair.
Tensions flared in northwestern Myanmar after 10 Muslims were beaten to death by a mob of Buddhist vigilantes Sunday in retaliation to the rape and murder of a girl allegedly by Muslim men.
Few are familiar with the Cristero War that took place from 1926 to 1929 in Mexico. The brutal warfare began after persecuted Catholics refused to stop practicing their religion. An astounding 90,000 Mexicans were killed during the conflict -- including priests, nuns, and children. The film For Greater Glory, released Friday, shines a spotlight on this little-known but horrific piece of history.
A group of Buddhists attacked a bus carrying passengers who were accused of committing a gang rape and murder of a Buddhist girl in another part of the province.
A Vatican special commission is investigating whether the Pope's butler arrested in connection with a leak scandal had accomplices.
An atheist and agnostic group in North Dakota won the right to sue over a decades-old Ten Commandments display in Fargo.
Djeca (Children of Sarejavo) is being touted as one of the best films in the Cannes Film Festival line-up this year. Set just after the Bosnian war, it follows Rahima and her teenage brother Nedim. Having lost both their parents in the war, the two fight to survive in their crumbling homeland.
