Karunawathie isn’t hungry for breakfast. She rarely is these days, but she forces herself to choke down a few bites of rice, dried fish and a simple coconut mix. The doctors say it’s better to have something in her stomach before the four-hour dialysis treatments. She is going for her ...
A downtown Los Angeles mosque that forbids men from attending may be the first of its kind in the United ...
Yupei Guo does not fit the mold of the traditional Ivy League student from China: Her journalist parents are neither ...
Iran will break with custom and allow foreign women to attend male volleyball matches when it hosts a major tournament this summer, but female Iranian nationals will remain barred. The decision, announced Wednesday by Iran’s Volleyball Federation, comes almost three months after the sport’s ...
Tom Cruise’s Tajik and Russian are on the way out in Tajikistan, where state television has made English — without subtitles — the preferred lingo to boost opportunity in the impoverished former Soviet state. Viewers can now watch Hollywood films in the original language, ...
More than a decade after 9/11, Americans who come across a turban-wearing Sikh are still prone to mistake him for a Muslim. A study released Monday said 60 percent of Americans admitted to knowing nothing about the Sikhs who live, study and work in ...
Film director Steven Spielberg told a group of Holocaust survivors on Monday that Jews are again facing the “perennial demons of intolerance” from anti-Semites who are provoking hate crimes and trying to strip survivors of their identity. His warning came in a speech to ...
As France’s prime minister kicks off a new plan to fix troubled schools and restive suburbs, the people he is trying to help are more skeptical than hopeful. They have heard these promises before. This time, the stakes are arguably higher. The impetus for ...
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Thursday called for a deep cut in the “horrifyingly high” number of abortions, which he linked to a Western rejection of moral norms. “The idea of absolutely prioritizing the value of free choice and of rejecting the priority of ...
U.S. House Republicans pushed through a controversial bill tightening federal abortion restrictions Thursday, touching a raw nerve on the 42nd anniversary of the controversial Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. As pro-life demonstrators gathered in front of the Supreme Court, the House of Representatives voted ...
Pope Francis is upholding church teaching banning contraception, but said Monday that Catholics do not have to breed “like rabbits” and should instead practice “responsible parenting.” Speaking to reporters en route home from the Philippines, Francis said there are plenty of church-approved ways to ...
Tributes to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were held across the United States on Monday as protests over the treatment of minorities by law enforcement rolled on across the country. This year, observers of Martin Luther King Jr. Day have linked the ...
Migrants dreaming of Europe have their pick of social media sites that work like an online travel agent, advertising fares and offering tips on secure payments. Meanwhile, the traffickers who send them floating across the Mediterranean are buying scrap-yard cargo ships over the Internet. ...
Wealth accumulated by the richest 1 percent will exceed that of the other 99 percent in 2016, the Oxfam charity said on Monday, ahead of the annual meeting of the world’s most powerful in Davos, Switzerland. “The scale of global inequality is quite simply ...
A record 6 million people poured into Manila’s rain-soaked streets and its biggest park Sunday as Pope Francis ended his Asian pilgrimage with an appeal for Filipinos to protect their young from sin and vice so they can instead become missionaries of the faith. ...
