Pope Francis has embraced the grand imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar mosque at the Vatican in a historic encounter both sides hope will lead to greater understanding and dialogue between the two faiths.
Four Indonesian sailors held captive by a militant Filipino group, Abu Sayyaf, tearfully returned to their families on Friday after nearly a month being moved around jungles and suffering psychological torture.
NEW YORK (AP) — Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, has died in New York at age 116.
Ten foreign drug convicts on death row will face firing squads this month as part of a third round of controversial executions under President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, local authorities have said.
LONDON – Labour Party politician Sadiq Khan has been elected London mayor – the first Muslim to lead Europe’s largest city.
A college professor in China has been suspended after giving his students a rather controversial test during their final exam. In a bid to prepare them for real life, he asked his students to gulp down glasses of baijiu, a Chinese liquor, grading them based on how much they were able consume.
People are flocking to shopping malls just to soak up the air-conditioning.
PHNOM PENH, April 26 (Xinhua) — Thousands of people are calling for an end to…
A Chinese military aircraft has landed at a new airport on an island China has built in the disputed South China Sea, state media said, in the first public report on a move that raises the prospect of China basing warplanes there.
In a heartwarming display of generosity and gratitude, French baker Michel Flamant recently sold his boulangerie to a homeless man for just €1. The man, Jerome Aucant, had previously saved Flamant from suffocating to death inside the bakery, during a fire.