Stephen Hawking, the British theoretical physicist who suffers from motor neuron disease, has publicly backed the notion of assisted suicide for people with terminal illnesses. “We don’t let animals suffer, so why humans?” the 71-year-old said in a BBC interview, although he insisted there ...

Britain was dragged into a debate Tuesday on Muslim women wearing full-face veils in public, with its biggest-selling newspaper backing calls from politicians to join European countries that have banned its use. The topic had stayed below the British political radar until the past ...

Yemen’s rights minister said Saturday that she will press for the minimum age of marriage to be raised to 18, after the reported death of a young girl on her wedding night. Eight-year-old Rawan Abdo Hattan is believed to have died last week from ...

Thousands of mostly Muslim protesters took to the street in Montreal to express anger Saturday at a plan to ban public workers from wearing religious garb in Quebec. The prohibition of headscarves, turbans and other religious garments is part of a proposed overhaul of ...

Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek on Saturday laid the foundation stone for what will be Slovenia’s first mosque — 44 years after the initial request to build it was made. The laying of the stone in the presence of a government minister from Qatar, which ...

A controversial Florida pastor was arrested Wednesday before he planned to burn almost 3,000 copies of the Quran, one for each of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, U.S. media reported. Terry Jones, 61, was detained in the town of Mulberry, near Tampa, and ...

As Nicholas Gumas settles into his third year at George Washington University in the U.S. capital, he won’t just ask incoming students for names, majors and hometowns. If the situation calls for it, he will ask for preferred gender pronouns (PGPs). To clarify their ...