A deadly attack on a French satirical magazine that lampooned Islam seems certain to fuel rising anti-immigration movements around Europe and inflame a "culture war" about the place of religion and ethnic identity in society.
For years, the radical imam Abu Hamza al-Masri delivered incendiary sermons at a London mosque, using words that US and UK authorities say helped inspire a generation of militants, including British would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid.
Russia has passed a controversial law banning transvestites and transsexuals from driving, prompting sharp criticism from rights activists.
A former journalist who wrote stories about women forced into sex slavery by Japan during World War II filed a defamation suit on Friday against a publisher and a scholar who accused him of fabricating the issue.
Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia Flight 8501 on Friday, hopeful they were closing in on the plane's crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea.
Afghan soldiers were responsible for firing mortars at a wedding party that killed 17 women and children, officials said Friday, in a mistaken strike that overshadowed the transfer of nationwide security from NATO forces.
The US state of California on Friday will start taking driver's license applications from the nation's largest population of immigrants in the country illegally.
Khalil Ibrahim watches from his tent as the orange light of dusk is darkened by a flock of European starlings arriving on their annual migration to northern Iraq. He prepares to trigger his nets as they circle the field, but at the last minute a child throws a stone in the distance and the birds vanish over the dimly lit horizon.
Kanye West and Paul McCartney, two legendary performers from different musical traditions, have teamed up in an unlikely collaboration on a new single released on Thursday called Only One.
When you have lived in a place for a long time, subtle changes that occur in your surroundings often escape the eye.
Changchun, the capital city of Northeast China's Jilin province, attracts worldwide attention each winter by hosting the International Vasaloppet Ski Festival.
In recent years, there have been an increasing number of ski fields in our province, which is an advantage in developing relevant tourism programs. In the last Winter Olympic games, China won nine medals, five of which were won by athletes from Jilin. The provincial government calls for us to build a snow and ice sport province.
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