RELIGION

Summer solstice celebrates a time when the sun reaches its northernmost point in the sky.

The Summer Solstice 2011, the longest day of the year and also the official beginning of the summer season, will officially arrive on Tuesday, June 21.

Throughout the globe, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, people are celebrating the event of Summer Solstice the longest day of the year, which falls on June 21, 2011.

As if your workday didn't seem long enough, Summer Solstice 2011- the longest day of the year- is tomorrow.

Apple's iPad is a product that has decimated competition like no other. Android OS-based rivals and challengers in the tablet sphere have bit dust big time when they had to face down the Apple iPad high winds. However, the same is not happening in smartphone segment. The wireless carriers appear to be preferring Android smartphones to Apple iPhones for a variety of reasons, making it challenging for Apple to tip the scale in their favor.

The latest figure to hit the front pages about China’s corruption problem is that $120 billion have been embezzled and smuggled out of the country since the mid-1990s, according to a Chinese government report.

US media on the Saudi women's movement to revoke a long-standing Saudi law, banning women from driving should be careful about conflating culture with religion.

The prospects for New York becoming the sixth state to legalize gay marriage remain uncertain as the Senate's Republican majority continues to vacillate on whether to call a vote before the session ends on Sunday.

Nearly 20,000 South Korean Catholics participated in a mass on Friday June 17 in Paju near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North Korea from South Korea to urge talks between leaders of the two Koreas and help build peace in East Asia.

Saudi Arabian women are slated to come out in protest of the fatwa- or religious decree, forbidding women from driving this Friday.

A look into the life of the new head of Al Qaeda and FBI's most wanted man.

Osama bin Laden's long-time lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken over as the new Al Qaeda chief after the killing of the group's founder and leader, Osama Bin Laden, an Islamist website reported on Thursday.

In the second of a sequence of hearings, U.S. lawmakers were told that U.S. prisons are becoming a hotbed for indoctrinating inmates and turning them into radical Muslims, AFP reported.

Apparently, classical Greece and its traditions of philosophy and democracy, are alive and well with Athens' citizens, although the state is still searching for Plato's philosopher-king, one blogger writes of today's protests outside the Greek Parliament.

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain was left to defend his earlier remarks about not being comfortable appointing Muslims in his administration during Monday night's GOP debate in New Hampshire.

59-year old Bill Warren, an eccentric California based diver has announced a rather ambitious plan to conduct an underwater mission to recover the body of Osama Bin Laden. Warren is currently gathering resources to scour the North Arabian sea bed which has an estimated surface area of four million square kilometers.

Israeli police entered Al-Aqsa Mosque compound after Friday communal prayers-known in Arabic as Jumma -- to disperse a crowd of young Palestinian demonstrators.

Israeli settlers, still at large, rolled burning tires into a mosque in the West Bank village of Maghayer in the early morning and scrawled Hebrew-language graffiti across the building's exterior.

Osama bin Laden's longtime lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahri, warned Americans not to gloat about the killing of the al Qaeda leader and vowed he would carry on bin Laden's work, according to a YouTube recording posted on Wednesday.

A new Quinnipiac poll solidified a growing perception that the Republican nomination could be Mitt Romney's to lose.

The United Nations and the White House have condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank yesterday.