HUMAN RIGHTS

The at least 47 bodies of women and children were discovered from Homs, in Syria where the violent conflicts between the Syrian army and the armed rebels have killed hundreds of civilians in past months.

Lawyers for the family of a man killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan said they would begin legal action against Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague on Monday, accusing him of complicity in strikes they say broke international laws.

In the latest attempt to bring the bloodshed in Syria to a speedy conclusion, Kofi Annan, the United Nations-Arab League special envoy, met with Bashar al-Assad, the country's president, in the capital city of Damascus on Saturday -- with little or no success.

The director of a video sensation that calls for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive rebel leader of a Ugandan militia group, agreed on Friday with skeptics who have called the film oversimplified, saying it was deliberately made that way.

Representatives of Stop Kony 2012 have denied scam claims about the charity, also known as Invisible Children, that have arisen since the group shot to mega-prominence earlier this week.

A video calling for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the fugitive leader of the Lord's Resistance Army militia group in Uganda, swept across the Internet this week, attracting a wave of support on Twitter and Facebook along with a skeptical backlash against a little-known team of filmmakers based in San Diego.

International Women's Day is celebrated every March 8 to honor women who have made a difference in the world. While women have come a long way in the 100 years since the holiday was established, progress in many countries has been slow.

In a scientifically unsubstantiated claim, Pakistan Ministry of Interior has said that Pakistani children grow up faster than children elsewhere due to the hot climate and spicy cuisine of the country.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council met on Wednesday to draft a new resolution in hopes of ending nearly a year of violence in Syria.

Meanwhile, international pressure condemning the violence in Syria continues to build up, with U.S. Senator John McCain on Monday pushing for airstrikes against Assad’s government forces.

Britain's most senior Catholic leader Cardinal Cardinal Keith O'Brien has said that by legalizing gay marriage nations are going against the natural law which would lead to further degeneration of society into immorality.

Obama favors diplomacy to end the violence in Syria, warning that a Libya-style intervention could trigger a wider war in the region.

The rule, which still must be passed by parliament, will give employers the flexibility of paying compensation in place of an off-day.

On Monday afternoon, Arizona Republican John McCain became the first U.S. Senator to call for air strikes against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. A senior Obama administration official said that the president and his advisers “share his concern and outrage about what’s taking place.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko quipped that it is better to be a dictator than gay – an apparent swipe at Germany’s openly homosexual foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle.

In honor of International Women’s Day 2012, here's a look at the best and worst places to be a woman. Caution: The results may surprise you.

As President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu met at the White House Monday afternoon, about two hundred Occupy AIPAC protesters demonstrated against war in Iran and for Palestinian rights.

Before he became president, Barry Obama was an eight-year-old boy living in Indonesia under the care of Evie, a transgender woman in Jakarta. Today, his ex-nanny is forced to hide her identity to avoid being beaten or killed, and her powerful story sheds a light on the abuse suffered by the transgender community at the hands of orthodox Muslims in Indonesia.

Few close observers of the Syrian conflict believe the uprising that began nearly a year ago is anything like over, and nor do they believe that President Bashar al-Assad can use the siege of Homs as a springboard to regain full control of the country. Yet some experts believe the authorities' brutality will lead to a drawn-out Bosnia-style war.

The Islamist group has announced a war on Christians and will launch a series of coordinated attacks in order to annihilate the entire Christian community living in the northern parts of the country.

Two British journalists working for Iran's Press TV who were detained late last month in Libya are suspected of being spies, the head of the militia holding them said Sunday.