Overnight clashes between security forces and army defectors in northern Syria left 15 people dead early Saturday, activists said. Seven were soldiers, five were defectors, and three were civilians.
The percentage of women and people of color running television and radio companies is falling, despite the rise in minority populations, and civil rights groups want the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it.
Abdulfattah John Jandali, Steve Jobs' biological father, has declared his support for the Syrian protesters after the government banned his son's invention, Apple iPhone throughout the country.
The United Nations High Commissioner for human rights on Friday urged the UN Security Council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands following a reveal of evidence by an independent panel that suggests the country's security forces have committed crimes against humanity as it attempts to clamp down on an eight-month-old uprising.
HRW said the bloodiest incident happened on November 26, the final day of the election campaign.
A Tibetan monk has been hospitalized after he set himself on fire Thursday in the Chinese-ruled Tibetan autonomous region, the 12th self-immolation in an apparent protest against Chinese rule, a human rights group said.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the former-Prime Minister of Thailand who was overthrown in a 2006 coup and went into self-imposed exile in Dubai, could soon be getting his passport back.
Hilary Clinton is in Burma (Myanmar) meeting with ruling and opposition leaders in an effort to promote democracy.
Prominent reformists have also received lengthy prison terms following trials that Amnesty described as grossly unfair.
Bush is scheduled to tour through Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, where he is planning to raise awareness about AIDS, cervical and breast cancers.
It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women in Afghanistan are languishing in jails over so-called ‘moral crimes.’
This trip represented the highest official U.S. visit to Burma in more than fifty years.
Egypt has gone to polls and overwhelmingly voiced its support for the Muslim Brotherhood. What does that mean for the country's political and social future?
Two men found guilty of setting off a bomb in a Minsk subway station in April, killing 15 people and wounding hundreds, were handed down a death sentence in a Belarus court Wednesday.
Reportedly, there are now about 10,000 homeless people on the streets of the capital Budapest alone.
Apparently when iPhone users ask Siri: Where can I get an abortion? it guides them to nearby Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC). The problem is that while CPCs are similar to counseling centers, they tend to advise women to go through with their pregnancies and not abort
Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was arrested and flown to The Hague overnight to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC since its inception in 2002.
Joran van der Sloot, the man suspected of killing Natalee Holloway 2005, filed a $10 million lawsuit today against Chilean and Peruvian authorities, as well as Ricardo Flores, the father of his alleged second murder victim.
In a scene of anger that looked like a replay of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, dozens of hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, tearing down the Union Jack flag and flinging documents out of windows.
The managing editor of one of Ethiopia's few remaining independent Amharic-language newspapers publishing critical analysis of local politics said he left the country last week for fear of arrest, a U.S.-based press freedom group said.
The government believes there are about 50,000 people affected by leprosy in the country, although activists think the number is much higher.
The situation has become so volatile that police have banned any more political rallies before Monday’s vote takes place.
