HUMAN RIGHTS

Circumcision will be banned in San Francisco if a November ballot initiative passes, prompting many to charge that the initiative is anti-Semitic. Jewish people are furious, saying that circumcision, the removal of foreskin eight days after a male baby is born, is part of their religion and that this is yet another example of Anti-Semitism akin to Mel Gibson's consistent hostility towards Jews.

Honor crimes are rooted in ancient tribal customs whereby the “honor” of a family or a whole village is represented by the morality, chastity and proper behavior of its women. Any perceived violation of that sense of honor often leads to deadly consequences.

Although honor killings are typically associated with Muslim countries like Turkey, Iraq and especially Pakistan, the practice has nothing to do with Islam.

An exiled prime minister's sister has taken the political seat in Thailand, perhaps ushering back her ousted sibling.

The sister of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra won Sunday's general elections in Thailand.

Disbanded hacker group, LulzSec's leader Sabu said, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's arrest prompted him to get involved with the hacker group Anonymous, in an interview with Newscientist. When I found out about what happened to Julian Assange, his arrest in the UK and so on, I found it absolutely absurd. So I got involved with Anonymous at that point, said Sabu. This is the first time a key LulzSec member is giving a media interview shedding light on hackers' beliefs, and mot...

Conservative religious activists in Pakistan have condemned and protested a gay rights event last week sponsored by the US embassy in Islamabad.

Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest profits in a decade and rewarded patient investors with a 14-fold increase in its share price.

Aging British rock star has cancelled a concert in Kazakhstan to protest the crackdown by that country’s president upon striking oil and gas workers.

Today, the Liberty Bell that hangs at the Liberty Bell Center on Market Street in Philadelphia will be symbolically tapped as per the tradition on every Independence Day.

A Philippines mayor, Sara Duterte, made international headlines today after she threw and landed several punches onto a court official sheriff during a tour at a demolition site in Agdao. The mayor's attack was caught on camera and has become an internet sensation on YouTube.

UN refugee camps are at capacity all over eastern Africa. But Somalis keep fleeing their country headed to Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere.

A city government in Romania is attempting to seal off a Roma community in the name of vehicular safety

Lundbeck, the Danish drug company, said it will restrict the distribution of its Nembutal drug in order to prevent U.S. prisons from using it in lethal injections.

Could Thaksin Shinawatra reclaim power in the country from which he was exiled?

The recent research project Costs of War find the estimated cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan could be $3.7 to $4.4 trillion,

The Dutch lower house has approved a humane slaughter bill that will counter Islamic and Jewish religious practices.

On the final stop of a five-day visit to Europe, the Prime Minister of China Wen Jiabao has signed a huge multi-billion euro trading agreement with Germany.

The UN Security Council approved a resolution to protect the disputed Abyei region for 6 months.

In the wake of New York becoming the sixth and largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, couples face a practical question: what does this law do?

The squashing of California's video game law by the Supreme Court has come as a ray of hope for entertainment industry at large.