RELIGION

Pope Benedict XVI has issued new guidelines to bishops across the world to fight child abuse by the priests.

Physicist Stephen Hawking has dismissed religion once again as he deemed heaven a fairy story aimed at appeasing those afraid of death.

The state of Kansas violated a Jehovah's Witness' constitutional right to exercise her religious faith when it denied her request for an out-of-state liver transplant, a state appeals court ruled.

Will Mike Huckabee run for President in 2012? Polls suggest he has a good shot.

Pakistani Taliban leaders sometimes visited with al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, according to documents and computer files captured by U.S. officials.

Two Florida Imams, also US citizens, have been accused by the US Justice Department with supporting the Pakistani Taliban.

Two suicide bombers from Pakistan’s Taliban branch set off blasts that killed 80 people and wounded over 100 at a Pakistan paramilitary police academy.

Less than a fortnight after bin Laden's death, there was indeed a revenge attack on a para-military academy near Peshawar in Pakistan where more than 83 people, majority of them newly trained cadets, were killed.

Sure, it was New York Times number one destination in the world for 2008. Sure, it’s the Wanderlust Travel Awards winner for Top City in 2010 and 2011. But, nobody seems to be listening.

Amidst growing questions over the legality of the killing of Osama bin Laden, US Attorney General Eric Holder defended the commando raid that resulted in the death of the former al-Qaeda terror chief.

The U.S. said on Thursday the killing of Osama Bin Laden was not an assassination and that the U.S. Navy SEALs who stormed his hideout and killed him were on a 'kill or capture' mission.

Grenades were thrown at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Karachi, Pakistan by two unknown assailants on a motorcycle on Wednesday in what might be the first violence response to the killing of Osama bin Laden in the country last week.

The al-Qaeda chief of Yemen has warned the U.S. and the West that the killing of Osama bin Laden will intensify the jihad (holy war) by the terrorist organization, according to SITE monitoring group

French police arrested seven persons, including one Indian national in Paris on Tuesday as security was tightened in the city on the sidelines of post-Osama bin Laden's death.

Hasidic newspaper, Der Tzitung, has evoked controversy with the alteration of the famous White House Situation Room pictures which were released following the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Indian Hindu groups are outraged by an Australian fashion show that featured models wearing swimsuits featuring the Hindu goddess of wealth Laxmi.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani addressed his country's Parliament on the Osama bin Laden operation in Abbottabad.

Muslim-Christian clashes in Cairo Egypt have left 10 dead and 200 injured leading to fears of further sectarian clashes.

A new study from Rice University says more than 25 percent of atheist scientists are spiritual.

Iran's Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi said his government has reliable information that Bin Laden died of illness long before the Operation Geronimo on May 1.

Over 200 people have been injured during the sectarian clashes between Muslims and Christians that took place in Cairo.