Tension prevails over denial of cremation to dalit woman

Some 40,000 Bidoon - which means "without" - live in the slum of Taimaa, which is located 40 minutes outside of Kuwait City. Gregory Constantine/Al Jazeera After working as a police officer for 18 years, this 60-year-old man was fired from his ...

GENEVA, June 19: War and other crises drove one person from their home every 4.1 seconds last year, the UN refugee agency said on Wednesday, pushing the number of people forcibly displaced to a two-decade high of 45.2 million. Conflicts and foreign ...

"Some people have greatness imposed upon them. I am one," said Wing Commander (retd) Rakesh Sharma. He said he may have been the first Indian in space, but he was the 128th human being to achieve that feat and "therefore there was no tension" when ...

There are more than 45 million refugees and internally displaced people in the world, according to the United Nations. That's the most in 18 years. War is the main cause, and the crisis in Syria is a major new factor in global displacement. On ...

Flicks where creepy people take over the world seem a little too close to home and a little far-fetched at the same time and World War Z fits in to both those categories. Starring Brad Pitt as UN employee Gerry Lane (worst movie name ever) and ...

So James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal believes there is a "war on men" and that male sexuality is being criminalized. Really?! When I first read about his bizarre and inappropriate reframing of the effort to address sexual assault in the ...

Bomb attacks in Iraq have killed seven people, including a local political leader and four of his relatives, authorities said Wednesday. Violence has risen sharply in Iraq in recent months as sectarian tensions increase, reviving fears the country ...

about 370 people were killed by the followers of war crimes accused Abdul Alim and the Pakistani occupation army in the two neighbouring villages, Kadipur and Karai Palpara in Jaipurhat on a Monday in the second week of Bangla month Baishakh ...

The number of people displaced by war and other conflicts has risen to its highest level in almost two decades. In 2012, almost 7.6 million people became newly displaced, according to . That boils down to one new refugee or internally displaced ...