(Nairobi) – Abuses against civilians by government forces and armed groups have become rampant in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today in its World ...

Seyyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei was born in April 1939 in Mashhad. He was the second son of his family. His father, Seyyed Javad Khamenei, was one of the scholars and jurists of his time. His father was ...

Historian John Stow claimed that Henry VIII had around 70,000 people executed (although this is believed to be an exaggerated ...

I was a TV reporter covering a sexual harassment case that would blow up to a national story. Rev. Jesse Jackson showed up ...

The New Orleans version, Mardi Gras — "Fat Tuesday" — apparently goes back as far as 1699. The first Mardi Gras parade was 1856. Masks, feasting, and revelry were part of it from the beginning.

As people head back to work Tuesday after the long holiday weekend, beads will be flying, crawfish boiling and parades rolling in New Orleans as the city celebrates Mardi Gras. Mardi Gras, also known ...

The Lumumba cocktail is one of Northern Europe's most popular winter drinks, but its name – borrowed from a Congolese politician – is now sparking a cultural controversy.

The global reality of the Church translates into a variety of Lenten practices. Read on to learn about more traditions that the Register discovered.

Latin Grammy winner Bobby Pulido’s music fills the air well before he walks into an adult day care center to round up support for his congressional campaign, his voice ...

This is the third and final part of Romano voďi magazine's series on the circus in the Czech lands, which attempts to piece ...

It is rather unfortunate that the first observation that I am constrained to make, even before I go into the meat of the matter of today is that, given the way Nigeria has regressed in so many ways in ...