One small detail loomed large as American operatives hunted for Osama bin Laden and staked out his compound in Pakistan.

Why would the White House think it could get away with changing such an obvious gaffe from the president of the United States?

Once each sentenced to 240 years in prison, appeals have won them sentence deductions as judges take fresh looks at their cases.

At least eight were killed and 136 wounded in a bombing at an Islamic school in Pakistan.

The Taliban in Afghanistan and Hezbollah in Lebanon are among those who have condemned the defense of caricatures depicting Muhammad.

Thirty-nine countries criticized China's human rights record in a joint statement read at a UN meeting.

A Pakistani Christian who has been imprisoned since 2013 on blasphemy charges has been sentenced to death by hanging.

'There is no check and balance. The government is clearly silent on this matter. This silence makes the government the culprit.'

The cockpit voice recorder revealed the pilots' potentially distracting conversation that might have contributed to the fatal crash.

They say God helps those who help themselves.