By 35 votes to 27, the Brazilian Senate approved today, December 15, the entry of Venezuela to Mercosur. The issue caused a dispute between the opposition and the...

Ongoing violence between Mexico’s drug cartels has killed at least 50 people in Mexico’s north in recent days, as the governor’s house and a police...

Opposition politicians from the left denounced the comments by the minister for families, Nadine Morano, as racist. The highly outspoken Morano, who is a member of...

It liberates. It represses. It is a prayer. It is a prison. It protects. It obliterates. Rarely in human history has a piece of cloth been assigned so many roles. Been...

On Sunday, Islamic militants stoned a man to death for adultery in front of hundreds of local residents in Somalia. The man, named Mohamed Abukar Ibrahim, 48, was...

The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab world is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said...

These days, it seems like everyone is talking in earnest about marijuana legalization, once dismissed as little more than a Cheech and Chong pipe dream. Indeed, a new...

Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. More than 230,000...

On 26th November and 27th November, Gujarat Police had launched a massive attack operation against Innocent People, and beated brutally even Women and Old Aged People...

To Be or Not To Be! Going by the opposition to the creation of Telengana and its repercussion else where, congress has been forced to defer any initiative. It has got a...

David Headley case is getting murkier day by day, confirming the worst fears. Perhaps like Pakistan, USA is also paying for its sins which go back to cold war era. As...

Mr. Larry Cox, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA addressed Mr. Obama on 18 November and urged him not to forget the plight of women, men and children who...

As in most civilized countries, the legal age a young girl can marry in India is 18. Any younger and the child is just not mature enough. Personally I think there would...

It was insanity after all. Or so that if the official plea. As you all know by now: Italian Premier Buffone Silvio Berlusconi was bloodied in the face tonight when at...

No matter where one stands on the abortion issue this story will horrify. A Texas couple in their 30s tried to flush down the toilet their 7-month-old aborted fetus and...

The demonstration as a whole gradually appears aggressive on the occasion of Copenhagen Conference on ‘Climate Change’. Amidst hue and cry of thousands and...

I think every one has seen in bus, Metro trains, Govt. jobs, Education sector as well as in parliament, the rule of reserved seat for ladies. My question is to...

Poor Abu Hamza’s Islamic prayer robes were getting creased in jail, so he demanded and received (at British taxpayers’ expense) huge wardrobes to...

Archaeologists have discovered the first known burial shroud in Jerusalem from the time of Christ’s crucifixion - and say it casts serious doubt on the claimed...

In the long and tortured debate over drug policy, one of the strangest episodes has been playing out this fall in the United Kingdom, where the country’s top drug...