HUMAN RIGHTS

The eight men were beheaded in Riyadh on Friday following conviction for the alleged killing of an Egyptian national in 2007.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winners were announced on Friday, and for the first time, three women split the prize. But, after a weekend of celebration, peace still isn't ubiquitous in either Liberia or Yemen, the homes of the laureates.

South African peace icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu celebrated his 80th birthday on Friday in the church where he preached against apartheid, just a few days after saying the former liberation movement now in government was in some ways even worse.

Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable female campaigners against war and oppression -- a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's president.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women on Friday for their collective nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work.

It's been nine months since the beginning of the Arab Spring, and North African and The Middle East are still very much in turmoil.

Five homosexual men were found bound and strangled between December 2010 and September 2011 in and around the Johannesburg area.

A father desperately searches for his son, who has been sent on a suicide bomb mission. After losing everything, he ends up homeless and insane on the dusty streets of Kabul.

The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was given to three women: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace advocate Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman.

The respect that Steve Jobs commanded didn't stem exclusively from his corporate position as the co-founder of Apple and a visionary CEO. A man of diverse interests, hailed as a revolutionary, Jobs strictly kept his personal life to himself. However, he always stood by what he believed in and wouldn't care much about his public-perceived image. Here are some little known facts about Jobs, whose personal life was marked by experiments with the obscure.

Journalist's murder, one of almost a hundred cases since 2000, is a test case for Putin's Russia.

Kokabee, 29, who was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International airport in February, has pled not guilty to both charges.

Turkey evacuated dozens of severely wounded blast victims from the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, two days after a suicide bomber killed 72 people in the rebel al Shabaab group's deadliest attack since launching an insurgency in 2007.

Steve Jobs is survived by his wife Laurene Jobs, who was the love of the Apple co-founder's life.

High in the hills of Congo's troubled northeast, a modern mine is ready to pour gold for the first time in five decades.

The death of Steve Jobs was unexpected, although almost everyone was aware that he was fighting a rare and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. However, his death has turned the spotlight on the early life and career of a man being hailed as a visionary.

Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani will avoid the hangman in Iran, it appears, as Iran claims that the reports of death penalty that circulated around the world last week were unsubstantiated.

Thousands of consumers from some of the largest countries around the world are demanding a higher level of responsibility from companies in dealing with societal issues and consumers are using their own spending and loyalty to push these issues, according to a new report.

Fred Shuttlesworth, a prominent civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, died in Birmingham, Ala., on Wednesday. He was 89.

Zimbabwe's economy will grow at a slower pace in 2012 than this year as politics puts a drag on full recovery and inflation should stay in single figures, partly due to prudent fiscal policy, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday.

Representatives of the Dalai Lama, who is based in northern India, began the visa application process in June.