According to the BBC, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have taken part in a massive protest rally in Indian-controlled Kashmir's main city, Srinagar. The rally ended with call for a three day hartal or strike, beginning Saturday, in the famed...

Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, more commonly known as Joseph Stalin, or Uncle Joe as Churchill called him, must be turning in his grave at the recent turn of events in his native Georgia. The situation is full of ironies. Stalin was...

According to a New York Times story by Deborah Sontag datelined August 3, eight years ago, Mr. Jiménez, 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Florida, suffered devastating injuries in a car crash with a drunken local....

Mt. Everest is the world's highest mountain by over 200 meters but K-2 at 8611 meters is the one that strikes terror in the heart of the bravest climber. The ratio of deaths per attempt is far higher than for...