A pastor at a small Kentucky church that recently voted to exclude interracial couples has overturned the decision.
The Ikwro research, carried out between July and November, reveals the collective figures for the first time in the UK as gathered by 39 police forces for honour-based violence.
The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church in Kentucky has allegedly voted to deny interracial couple from becoming members
An Iranian cleric has warned the EU and UN not to tie themselves to "the rotten rope of Britain" at a Friday prayer service in Tehran.
With "experts" now poo pooing the Mayan December, 2012 doomsday prophecy the IBTimes has chosen to celebrate the fact the world will keep-turning yet another year, offering you the lucky reader a breakdown of the top 10 most entertaining defunct doomsday prophecies.
With the Mayan's December end of the world prediction causing a few "special" people to sweat, experts have come forward to calm the populace, confirming the world will survive to see the 25th.
The U.S.-based Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has slammed a new campaign by Israel's Ministry of Absorption to entice expat Israelis to return home.
Five men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after illegal immigrants travelling from Libya to Italy were thrown overboard in a voodoo ritual.
The European Union agreed Thursday it would impose fresh sanctions on Iran as a response to the country's alleged nuclear programme.
Students at a Tunisian university demanded the right to wear the burka, a full body cloak, and establish a prayer room on campus.
A 32-year old man has been sentenced to one month imprisonment by an Abuja senior magistrates' court for wearing shoes into a mosque in Nigeria.
The Catholic Bishop of Raphoe has admitted that "horrific acts of child abuse" has occurred in the diocese and that "very poor judgements and mistakes" have been made.
A breakaway group of demonstrators has stormed the British Embassy compound in Tehran.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest and best organised opposition party, until recently seemed poised to take power in the Arab world's most populous country. Where have the uprisings of the last week left the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party?
Muslims believe that Allah created the world, humankind and all known species in a single act, as opposed to the Darwinian theory.
A United Arab Emirates court, on Sunday, convicted and sentenced five political activists, after they were found guilty for "publicly insulting" the Gulf state's leaders by calling for protests. The five, arrested in April, have been on trial since June.
significant discoveries were simultaneously realized – the Sun’s position over Stonehenge, at its highest point in the year, was important for prehistoric people, the Stonehenge site was probably more sacred before the construction of Cursus and the sun worshippers had a stronger link to the site than previously thought.
Rafiq Tagi, a writer and journalist from Azerbaijan, critical of the ex-soviet state's repressive regime and of neighbouring Iran has died in hospital after being stabbed in a brutal attack.
A breakaway Amish cult in Ohio headed by leader Samuel Mullet terrorised the local Amish population by forcibly cutting the hair of men and women in night-time raids.
The horrifying video of what is believed to be a Buddhist nun engulfed in flames on a city street was smuggled out of the country and given to Students for a Free Tibet, which has released it to the media and posted it on YouTube.
The recent death of 15 eunuchs, or "hijras", in a fire in New Delhi has cast a spotlight on this little-known and often marginalised community.
India's community of eunuchs, transvestites and transsexuals mourned Monday for 15 of their numbers killed in a deadly blaze at a ceremony in New Delhi.
A disgraced former archbishop of Boston who resigned in 2002 following a scandal involving the sexual abuse of children by priests has retired from his job as head of a major Roman basilica.
Activists in Jerusalem are campaigning against gender segregation and the censorship of women in the public sphere, as enforced by ultra-orthodox Haredi Jews.
A new U.S. reality TV show claims to give a unique glimpse of the American Muslim community, exploding stereotypes along the way.
A media report on Sunday revealed that the organisers of the 2012 London Olympic Games will, in a gesture designed to promote the country’s multi-cultural stance, allow Sikh athletes and spectators to wear ceremonial daggers.
The Vatican is taking legal action against Italian clothing company Benetton over the use of an ad picture showing Pope Benedict XVI kissing a leading imam as part of a new global campaign.
Italian fashion label Benetton has withdrawn a picture showing the Pope kissing a leading imam from its new advertising campaign after the Vatican issued a fierce condemnation.
The Queen has attended a service at Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 400th year of the King James Bible.
Slain al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has been described by the new al Qaida chief al-Zawahiri as 'sensitive' man.