RELIGION

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who led a 400-person congregation in Rasht just a few years ago, was arrested on apostasy charges in 2009. He was found guilty of the crime of abandoning Islam and sentenced to death a year later.

The White House has condemned Iran's conviction of Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who has been found guilty of apostasy.

Youcef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor in Iran, faces the death penalty if he refuses to convert to Islam. Nadarkhani, who was arrested in 2009, has been given three chances to repent and convert to Islam. All three times he has refused. Nadarkhani will be given his fourth and final chance to give up Christianity on Wednesday, which he again declined.

Bill Clinton antagonist, flat tax supporter, staunch abortion opponent: all of these descriptions could apply to Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, whose resounding win in a Florida straw poll catapulted the Godfather's pizza CEO into the conversation.

Cain has very little political experience; his career has been almost entirely in business. As a result, he has no voting or governing record to turn to for an idea of his political views; voters will have to rely entirely on the things he has said during his campaign.

Actor Taye Diggs writes children's book.

The text of the Dead Sea Scrolls is available online now (with translation) thanks to Google.

Despite Chris Christie, and those who sometimes speak for him, reiterating his line of not running for president, that, “no means no, and he means it,” that, “short of suicide” he won’t be doing it, speculation has renewed.

Rahul Gandhi, heir to the family dynasty that has dominated politics in the world's biggest democracy for generations, was trying to make himself heard in the uproar of Parliament.

Nirvana completed 20 years since the launch of Nevermind.

Ten Muslim college students in California were convicted and sentenced to probation on Friday for disrupting a speech at their university by Israel's ambassador to the United States.

Dakota Ary, high school freshman and honor student from Fort Worth, Texas, hit the headlines this week after he was suspended for three days from school as a consequence of making anti-homosexual comment in his German class.

Baby boomers may remember classical sitar player Ravi Shankar from his legendary appearances at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock, or his influence on popular music culture at the time.

Because Everybody Hurts....Sometimes.

R.E.M. bid adieu to its fans after three decades of delivering extraordinary music.

After 31 years of churning out hits like Losing My Religion and The One I Love R.E.M. has finally bowed out. In a statement posted on their official web site on Wednesday, the rock band said that they had decided to call it a day.

R.E.M, once dubbed America's Best Rock & Roll Band, said on Wednesday they decided to call it a day after more than 30 years of generating hits and selling millions of records.

American rock band R.E.M. has decided to collectively call it a day, after a career spanning three decades, 15 albums, and countless hit singles.

An 18-year-old ban on openly gay soldiers known as Don't Ask Don't Tell expires on Tuesday, when the military will officially begin processing applications it has already received from openly gay recruits.

Egypt approved on Monday the establishment of a party led by a former top official in Hosni Mubarak's now disbanded party and rejected another set up by an Islamist group, the committee charged with reviewing party applications said in a statement.

Inside Ron Artest's decision to change his name.