Paris - Anyone who craves a real hamburger probably wouldn't switch willingly to turkey meat, unless it was part of a diet. Indeed, some people might be put out if they had no choice in the kind of...

Washington — The U.S. Constitution requires that a census be taken of the American people every 10 years. The purpose? To determine the number of representatives in the U.S. Congress and to...

An undated image obtained on Mar. 9, 2010 shows a a photo from a website authorities say was maintained by terror suspect Colleen LaRose, an American woman known as "Jihad...

Pakistan security officials look for evidence in an office of the World Vision aid agency after militants attacked it in Mansehra district, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province,...

I felt they were all laughing about my friend and I going on about our trip to this ancient sleepy town in Saudi Arabia, but I didn’t care. They could laugh all they wanted. I was looking forward...

MEXICO CITY: The son of an immigrant shopkeeper has become the first person from a developing nation, and the first from Latin America, to be named the world's richest...

If you telephone DHL Express to trace an overnight shipment or to arrange delivery of your new credit card, you might speak to one of the three dozen women who work in Al-Khobar as part of DHL...

Hypothyroidism, or under-active thyroid, is more common in women than men. There are two thyroid conditions overactive and underactive, and the television presenter, Oprah Winfrey has recently...

Photo released Tuesday by MySpace showing Jason Hirschhorn, 38, left, and Mike Jones, 34, right, at the MySpace headquarters in Beverly Hills, California on Monday. The two new co-presidents of...

WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected a measure calling for President Barack Obama to pull US forces from Afghanistan, in an election-year test of his...

FRESNO, California: When a voracious pest triggered a quarantine this week across much of Napa Valley - the United States' premier grape-growing region - it threatened more than the grapes...

VATICAN CITY: Church abuse scandals in Germany have reached the older brother of Pope Benedict XVI and are creeping ever closer to the pontiff...

KOTA BARU: Pas' objective of working together with DAP was to bring Islam closer to the non-Muslims in the Chinese-dominated party, says the party's spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik...

Twenty-four Filipinos, most of them civil servants, were stranded at the city's international airport for six hours on Tuesday after the tour operator who was supposed to meet them failed to...

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo salutes next to Lt. Gen. Delfin Bangit (R), the new chief of staff of the Philippines' armed forces, and Bangit's predecessor Gen. Victor Ibrado during...

JAKARTA: DNA tests confirmed that a man accused of assembling the bombs used in the 2002 Bali terrorist attack was killed in a raid near Jakarta, Indonesian police said...

NEW DELHI: India's ruling Congress party officials met on Wednesday to douse a political standoff over a contentious parliament bill after two of its allies quit and left the government less elbow...

A Hizbul Islam official called Bare Ali Bare was on Tuesday gunned down by unknown assailants in Mogadishu 's Bakara Market, a stronghold for Somali rebel fighters. According to witnesses who spoke...

(AP) — KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian magazine has apologized for upsetting Christians after it published an article researched by two Muslims who pretended to be Roman Catholics and...

RIYADH: Foreign ministers of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) called on Israel on Wednesday to refrain from provocative gestures and strongly condemned the incursion of Israeli forces’...

RIYADH: Sheikh Muhammad Sayed Tantawi, a prominent voice of the Islamic world and head of Al-Azhar, the highest religious authority in Egypt, died here on Wednesday at the age of 81 following a heart...

An aerial view of of the eastern part of Riyadh shows finished villas and housing units under construction as land use continues to rise in the capital...

Zenit.org ).- Al-Islam magazine apologized to Catholics for publishing a report in which two of its journalists profaned a consecrated host, reported Eglises d'Asie, agency of the Foreign Missions of...

MANILA: Sixteen people, including two South Korean tourists, were killed in two road accidents overnight in the Philippines, police reports said...

RIYADH: The Law Firm of Salah Al-Hejailan (LFSH) has joined forces with the London-based Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, one of the largest law firms in the world with 2,800 lawyers on its roll and...

“SJCUK has recently been launched and, given our flexible approach, we will adapt to an ever changing future,” said Prince Bader bin Saud bin Mohammad, president of the new organization.He added...

KARACHI: Former captains Younus Khan and Muhammad Yousuf had their international futures cast aside and then restored just as quickly after the Pakistan Cricket Board backtracked on its decision to...

Prince Mishal hands over the prize to one of the winners in the Mobily Jeddah Marathon at Al-Bir Society in Jeddah on Wednesday. (AN photo by Adnan...

"The native people of Borneo are devout Christians, who live in harmony with Muslims. The religious harmony in Borneo should be a model for the entire nation." This is what Catholic Bishop...

Israel's plan to build 1,600 new apartments in contested east Jerusalem has thrown a spotlight on the city at the core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. —What's the bottom line? Israel wants...

Tajikistan's top court on Wednesday sentenced 56 followers of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), a radical Muslim group, for extremist activities in the Central Asian state. "Twenty-three defendants were given...

AURILLAC, France: Slovakian prodigy Peter Sagan claimed a shortened third stage of the Paris-Nice race on Wednesday while Alberto Contador showed in a nervy finale he had regained confidence two days...

JEDDAH: No sweat for Al Areesh as its dominating display in the Thursday Night Bowling League 4th Season fittingly ended with a championship crown at the Sultana Mall’s Bowling City...

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany:  Double Olympic gold medallist Maria Riesch handed Lindsey Vonn a rare downhill defeat on Wednesday and also forced her American friend to put her third successive...

RIYADH: FIA President Jean Todt has just completed a one-day visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as a guest of the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation (SAMF). Todt was accompanied by Sheikh Abdullah bin...

CGAP, Deutsche Bank, Grameen-Jameel and Islamic Development Bank have joined forces to challenge the Islamic microfinance industry to develop new ideas for business models. ...

Belgrade - Serbia on Wednesday sent an official request to Britain for the extradition of former Bosnian Muslim leader Ejup Ganic, currently being held in London on charges of alleged war crimes. The...

Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to...

A network of social justice movements is helping women combat inequality, violence and repression all over the globe, especially in Muslim...

CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's top cleric, Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, known for promoting the government agenda against female genital mutilation and the face veil, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a...

According to The Australian, “dozens of bodies lined the streets” of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria. “Other victims of the weekend’s Muslim fury jammed a local...

A 600 page document by Prof. Tahir ul-Quadri, against violence, signals the beginning of a new season in the Islamic world. Like the pope in Regensburg, he says that God is reason and is against...

Announcing to launch an agitation against the Women's Reservation Bill, Samajwadi Party today appealed to Muslims MPs in all the political parties to press for amendment in the measure, which it said...

Announcing to launch an agitation against Women Reservation Bill, Samajwadi Party today appealed to Muslims MPs in all the political parties to press for amendment in the measure, which it said was...

QUEBEC - Immigration Minister Yolande James said Tuesday she will not compromise in her refusal to allow students to cover their faces with Islamic niqabs or burqas in French classes.“There is no...

Tajikistan's top court on Wednesday sentenced 56 followers of Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), a radical Muslim group, for extremist activities in the Central Asian state. "Twenty-three defendants were given...

/enpproperty--> CAIRO - Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Sayyid Tantawi died of a sudden heart attack Wednesday morning in Saudi Arabia, the official MENA news agency reported. As the country's...