Chinese officials summed a UK ambassador to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in an official complaint against British Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. The two dignitaries spoke with the 14th Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, on May 14.
Shahin Najafi, an Iranian rapper living in Germany, has a $100,000 bounty on his head after Islamist website Shia-Online.ir issued a 'fatwa' for a controversial song he released that criticizes the Islamist Republic.
The most popular baby names of 2011 are out, with Jacob holding its place as the top boys name for another year and Sophia taking over from Isabella as the most popular girl's name, according to the Social Security Administration.
Rather than deal with business, directors of Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), the No. 3 search engine, have been busy all week in the ?resume embellishment? scandal that forced one director to quit and put the CEO under a cloud.
Six Buddhist monks were caught smack in the middle of a controversy, after a video showing the leaders performing illegal activities was aired on television networks, days ahead of a South Korea's religious holiday that marks the birth of Buddha.The controversial clip exposed the senior monks drinking, smoking and gambling with thousands in cash at stake involved. The incident, which reportedly happened in a luxury hotel room late April, was taped in secret and was released to the media a...
A Harvard student was bewildered on a visit to Vatican City, not because of the beauty or the history, but because a 500-year-old painting by Raphael which shows a man who is an exact doppelganger of Sylvester Stallone. While it's obviously not the real life Sylvester Stallone, the resemblance is uncanny, namely in the cheekbones, chin and the heavy eyes. However, Stallone isn't the only famous celebrity who was named a doppelganger of historical figures and people in paintings.
A new poll finds that Americans of different faiths have widely varying opinions of President Obama and Mitt Romney, with white evangelical voters overwhelmingly supporting the likely Republican nominee.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and House Republicans are at loggerheads over the severe cuts to social safety net programs in a proposed budget reconciliation package.
A Morocco immigrant attacked his sister-in-law for taking his wife to the beach. He was enraged because she dared to take his wife on the beach trip without his permission, a court heard on Tuesday. Ismail Belghar allegedly slapped Canan Kokden across her face, called her a 'slut' and held her over a car park railing when he noticed his wife Hanife Kokden's sunburned shoulders.
Christians have learned to accept being belittled, made fun of, and marginalized; vicious attacks on our faith happen daily, but none are as offensive and overt as the new ABC series GCB, named after the novel ?Good Christian Bit***s.?
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned Pakistan that it must do a better job of fighting terrorists operating within its borders, according to the Press Trust of India.
The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film has become a hot topic among movie buffs, who are anxiously awaiting PTA's follow-up to There Will Be Blood. The forthcoming period piece is rumored to shine on The Church of Scientology, whose most prominent structure is smack-dab in Hollywood.
Communist leader Vladimir Lenin died in 1924, and a rumor that he had died of syphilis came to be widely accepted. But new research conducted for an annual conference at the University of Maryland has raised doubts.
Alsop?s columns appeared in 300 newspapers and were read widely by D.C. elites
The U.S. House of Representatives was introduced to a new bill on Friday, called the Social Networking Online Protection Act 2012, or SNOPA, which would ban employers from requiring job candidates to provide their username or password to Facebook, or any other social networking account for that matter.
All the May Day General Strike online live streams are compiled here for you to watch as the protests sweep the United States today, May 1.
There was no mention of the massive May 1 General Strike protests sweeping New York City and the world on the New York Times homepage as of 11:20 Tuesday morning.
The May Day 2012 General Strike protests are poised to sweep the world's streets on May 1, when men, women and children are being asked to skip work, school, shopping and other activities in order to participate in the action on behalf of the 99 percent.
In an alleged bid to curtail freedom of speech, Kuwait is formulating a set of new laws to monitor the usage of social media, Bikya Masar has reported.
Socialist contender for the upcoming French presidential election Francois Hollande has said that, if elected, he will uphold the law banning burqa, or the veil used to cover face, enacted by incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives.
The final list of Egyptian presidential candidates was announced on Thursday, and 13 men will face off in the first free presidential elections in the country in decades.
An Indiana teacher was fired from a Roman Catholic school after undergoing in vitro fertilization, which the Church strictly shuns, according to the Associated Press. The 31-year-old former educator, Emily Herx, is filing a lawsuit claiming that her termination last June was a result of discrimination. The case could spark serious legal controversy over reproductive rights and religious rights.
