Five centuries after the Pope ordered the public burning of Martin Luther’s books, book burning is still being used as political performance. Unlike the papal attacks on Luther, however, or the Nazi ...

A cartoon of Prophet Muhammad led to violent protests in Turkey’s Istanbul on Monday, with protesters pelting stones and ...

Bringing back blasphemy laws would only be bad for Muslims As a protester who set fire to the Quran is found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence, Rakib Ehsan says giving Islam ...

A Swedish businesswoman who called herself the Queen of Trash has been sentenced to six years in prison in one of the country's biggest environmental crime cases. Fariba Vancor, formerly known as ...

A 27-year-old man accused of setting fire to a copy of the Quran at the entrance of the Errahma Mosque in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, is set to stand trial on July 30, the prosecutor’s office ...

As Toby Young says: "No one should be prosecuted for burning a copy of the Quran any more than they should for burning a copy of the Bible." Hear Hear!

Iran's regime has executed several people, and arrested hundreds, while seeking to keep domestic opposition in check as its ...

Learn about the Sámi people of the Sápmi region, spanning Norway, Sweden, Finland, and northwest Russia, in this week's episode of "Lost Cultures: Living Legacies." ...

Sheikh” Mosque in the Khirbet Tana area, part of the town of Beit Furik east of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

A convicted Swedish member of ISIL has gone on trial in Stockholm, accused of war crimes for his role in the horrific 2015 killing of a captured Jordanian pilot, who was burned alive in Syria.