A gathering of Beirut’s imams and preachers rejected the use of the Mohammad al-Amin Mosque in Downtown as venue for the divided Higher Islamic Council, after convening in Dar al-Fatwa over the weekend.

Hezbollah-affiliated media outlets issued over the weekend an apology for their coverage of news in Bahrain during a meeting of the Arab States Broadcasting Union, vowing to remain objective in future reporting.

South Africans of all races and religions united in an outpouring of prayer and song for their beloved Nelson Mandela Sunday, hearing calls to keep his dream of a Rainbow Nation alive.

North Korea has said leader Kim Jong-Un's uncle was removed from office for committing "criminal" acts and for leading a "counter-revolutionary faction", state news agency KCNA reports.

Brazen Al-Qaeda attacks on top government targets in Yemen are unlikely to abate while security services remain divided, ill-equipped and infiltrated by militants, and efforts to repair the country’s fractured political life remain stalled.

On the morning of July 20, 2004, two Israeli soldiers climbed onto the roof of a border outpost opposite the village of Aita Shaab to fix a broken antenna.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat an unusual condition that causes painful, curved erections in men.

Women aren’t very good at reading maps, and men are incapable of multitasking.

One person was killed and five wounded in Libya's eastern city Benghazi on Sunday when a car bomb exploded at a funeral for an assassinated army officer, security and medical sources said.

Anthropologists said Wednesday they had decoded the oldest DNA ever found in the human family, extracted from a 400,000-year-old thighbone found in a pit in Spain.