A cheeky protest movement in Australia has women flaunting their cleavage online in response to a blogger's criticism this weekend of the country's pr...

A new video produced by Amnesty International sparked a fierce debate on immigration and race after pointedly reversing traditional racial roles. ...

Is Kim Jong Un starting an Adolf Hitler book club? The North Korean leader reportedly gave out copies of Hitler's ideological tome Mein Kampf to se...

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Monsanto and its patented seeds last Monday by throwing out a case tirelessly petitioned for by organic farmers. It was only last month Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the agricultural giant's "license agreement" yet again.

It was an exhilarating time to be young in November 1989 and living in East Berlin. It was not only the physical Wall that fell on November 9. It was also the many invisible walls that closed off anyone who didn't conform.

A Canadian couple who unearthed the ancient skeleton of an aboriginal woman may also have to foot the thousands of dollars it cost to excavate the his...

Why would they, namely Khamenei, allow a win by a candidate who had the full support of the reformists who revolted four years ago?

Pakistanis have little respect for public property, that is, the natural and human-made properties accessible to all members of the society. This lack of respect for public property reinforces corruption that runs through every artery of the Pakistani economy.

On Father's Day 2013, dads around the world will be celebrated for the immeasurable contributions they make to their children and society as a whole. ...

The clinical trial finding that a once-daily pill halved HIV infection among people who inject drugs in Thailand is an important development in HIV prevention science, and brings welcome attention to a group often excluded from clinical trials.

Certainly 1989 was a watershed year for politicians, political scientists, and human rights activists in East-Central Europe. But the people that really must have felt the ground shake beneath their feet were: real estate developers.

A key question facing Roma politicians is whether to run as candidates with the major political parties or to push forward with a Roma-identified initiative.

Militant nationalism is not an exclusively male enterprise. But a principal fuel that keeps the enterprise going is high-octane testosterone.

Via Campesina serves as a model for social movements by linking agrarian reform with women's advocacy to attain a fair place in society.

Archeologists excavating a former Nazi death camp in Poland believe they have found evidence of an escape tunnel created by a group of prisoners. T...

WASHINGTON -- Asif Mohiuddin first learned he was arrested from a TV news report. Mohiuddin and his sister, Juela Zebunnesa Khan, had gone to the p...

After following underwater clues that hinted at a nearby shipwreck, a Mexican archeological team has discovered the remains of a 19th century British ...

Referring to this support-base, and in what appears to be a mockery of the recent protests, Prime Minister Erdoğan wrote a message via Twitter stating he could easily mobilize a million people to show their support for him in Taksim Square.

Something is dreadfully wrong with Hungary. Worse, what's wrong with Hungary is not unique in Europe. What's eating away at a free society in Hungary has metastasized.

The experience of today's ghettos has many echoes with the past. Consider for example the Stolipinovo neighborhood in Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city.