Their boat was stopped in Indonesia en route to Australia, and they went on a hunger strike demanding to be "immediately accepted as refugees". The Aussi PM says they must go through the the usual United Nations processing system, otherwise...

Behind Ahmadinejad's vitriolic attacks on the Jewish world lies an astonishing secret. But it's a secret no longer. A photograph of the Iranian president holding up his identity card...

Saad Khalid told a psychiatrist that he had developed a "connection toward the Muslim cause" and an "increased sense of meaning." He believed he was "here for a purpose." By age 19, he felt a religious obligation to do s...

(Azerbaijan) Over here in Europe we have this song contest which, while professing to unite all the peoples of Europe with music, actually does the opposite and highlights just how divided we actually are. So if you’re sad enough to actually...

(India)has decided to push ahead with a vastly ambitious plan to tap the power of the sun to generate clean electricity, and after a meeting chaired by the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, it wants rich nations to pay the bill. Four-hundred million I...