British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ruled that holiday decorations will not be hung this year in the Staten Island Ferry stations.
Artist leads Golden Globes. Do Oscars await?
Despite some bellicose statements about Iran, if former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's past statements are to be believed, the primary threat facing the U.S. isn't a foreign adversary but the gradual imposition of Islamic Sharia law in America.
Author, journalist and fervent atheist, Christopher Hitchens, passed away Thursday at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2010. Although Hitchens has hundreds of quotable from books, magazines and online essays, we choose fifteen of his most witty and memorable quotes.
Mother Teresa, who died in September 1997, was beatified by the church in 2003.
The magnitude of abuse ranged from mild forms touching all the way up to and including rape.
Christopher Hitchens, a British-born journalist and cultural critic, died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus.
Christopher Hitchens, an Anglo-American author, journalist and pundit, died Thursday night at the age of 62, after fighting a long battle with esophageal cancer.
Shirtless men clad in red sweatpants have been lining up for days in Singapore's prime shopping district, part of an advertising gimmick revealing not just muscle but also a gradual unpeeling of the city state's puritanical ways.
Controversial radio shock jock Howard Stern will be the new judge on TV show America's Got Talent, NBC said on Thursday, and will also continue to host his daily radio program for SiriusXM.
As New Year's Eve 2011 approaches, one haunting thought comes to many minds - December 21, 2012. On this date, the Maya calendar comes to a halt; and many are predicting it will be the end of days.
Indonesian police have detained 65 young men and women, from different areas in Aceh Besar, of the country's Banda Aceh province, and shaved their heads because they apparently posed a threat to Islamic values; these youngsters reportedly attended a punk rock concert on Sunday.
Voters in Egypt went to the polls Wednesday to vote in the second round of parliamentary elections.
Hasidic reggae icon Matisyahu has kicked up a furor in the Jewish world. Why? Because he shaved off his beard.
"We don't call it the 'God particle', it's just the media that do that," a senior U.S. scientist politely told an interviewer on a major European radio station on Tuesday.
A woman in Saudi Arabia was convicted, and beheaded this week, becoming the second in Saudi Arabia to suffer execution for practicing witchcraft and sorcery this year.
A Saudi woman, Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar, was beheaded Monday after national security convicted her of practicing witchcraft and sorcery.
Unknown arsonists set an unused mosque in Jerusalem ablaze and sprayed anti-Arab graffiti on its walls early on Wednesday morning, provoking Muslim sentiments and prompting the government to take action.
Matisyahu, the renowned Hasidic Jewish reggae star, altered his religious image on Tuesday after he posted photos of himself on Twitter with a shaved beard.
In a letter sent to the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said lawmakers have a moral obligation to ensure unemployed Americans and their families are able to support themselves in an economy that has not been conductive to job growth.
Musician Matisyahu has shaved his facial hair in a shocking departure from Hasidic Jewish traditions.
