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The Assad regime launches a lethal offensive on opposition forces after Friday prayers.

Yemen's 33-year president wounded in blast. Government officials scramble to dispel rumors of death.

The cries of New York's political establishment fell on deaf ears in the Republican controlled House of Representatives where a bid to end homeland security grant cuts and reserve reduced funding for terror target cities was struck down.

Beijing goes ahead with ordination, despite scorn of the world Catholic community

The June 1 celebration marks the anniversary of Israel's capture of the Eastern part of the city during the 1967 Middle East War. Israel annexed East Jerusalem as part of its capital in a move not recognized internationally.

Mitt Romney is a Mormon. There is no escaping that fact, even if it’s politically incorrect and perhaps unconstitutional (Article VI, paragraph 3) to discriminate against him for his faith.

Rihanna's 'Man Down' stirs controversy over rape and murder scenes.

As the saffron-robed Swami Ramdev, India's famous yoga guru, has pledged a hunger strike starting Saturday to protest against corruption, the government is trying to convince him otherwise.

Mitt Romney, the Republican Presidential candidate hopeful, says he isn't worried that people in the United States will be considering his religion as they go to the polls in November of 2012.

While President Barack Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, a showdown took place between two unlikely groups: the Ku Klux Klan and the Westboro Baptist Church protestors.

A Ukrainian Muslim girl was stoned to death for apparently taking part in a beauty pageant, according to media reports. The 19-year-old girl, Katya Koren, was killed by three youths who believed she deserved death sentence under the Muslim Sharia law.

Exactly fifty years ago today, one of the bloodiest dictators of the Americas was assassinated in the DR

Although Harold Camping's predictions failed and the Rapture did not occur, a real life Ark, almost as long as Noah's, is close to completion at Dordrecht, Netherlands.

32 years ago, 918 followers of Jim Jones died at Jonestown, the spiritual encampment established in the jungles of Guyana intended to be a utopian dream.

Harold Camping's May 21 doomsday prediction prompted rash reactions from many around the world, with at least two suicides.

Mitt Romney is a Mormon. Despite his other qualifications, he will face a disadvantage because of it.

Most people think thieves just steal ‘normal’ things like cash, jewelry, watches, and cars. However, a combination of greed, amorality, and desperate times – as well as demand for potential customers – has driven creative thieves to steal some pretty ridiculous things.

Elizabeth Smart, kidnapped from her home June 2002 at the age of 14, at last got justice on Wednesday as her kidnapper Brian David Mitchell was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Harold Camping's May 21 doomsday prediction prompted rash reactions from many around the world, with at least two suicides.

Soon after his failed May 21st ‘Doomsday’ prediciton, Harold Camping set the new ‘Doomsday’ date for physical destruction on earth for October 21, 2011.

Elizabeth Smart has moved on from the horrifying ordeal she endured in 2002 and 2003 at the hands of her rapist Brian David Mitchell.