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Muslims pack a mosque in Islamabad. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images)
Two scholars, despite their differences, say that defining 'sharia' is crucial to finding a healthy place for religion in Muslim nations.
A girl drinks water from a container while her homeless family eats donated food in a township on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. Millions of cyclone victims face outbreaks of disease as they struggle to survive without clean water, food, or shelter five days after Cyclone Nargis crashed onto the shores of Myanmar, killing more than 50,000 people.
The nation's military dictators are wary of admitting foreign relief workers.
U.S. aides cite a good personal relationship and a shared agenda with the left-leaning Lula da Silva.
A frame grab from a videotape aired 27 July 2006 on Al-Jazeera television shows Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who vowed in his message that Al-Qaeda will carry out attacks against Israel and its US backers to avenge the Israeli onslaughts on Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. It was the first reaction by Al-Qaeda to the onslaughts which started in late June in Gaza and on July 12 in Lebanon, triggered by the capture of Israeli soldiers by Palestinian militants and Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement. (AFP/Getty Images)
A new report shows what's on the minds of al Qaeda supporters.
The shift in handling 2 million displaced people brings new perils to the volatile border region.
Young Berber boys pose for a photograph in the village of Tisgui Ntknt on July 25, 2007 in Imlil district, Morocco. Tisgui Ntknt is a village of around seventeen families in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. The Berber people of the Atlas have a strong sense of family and each village will consist of a number of families ranging from five to around thirty or forty. Tisgui Ntknt does not have electricity but King Mohammed VI has pledged that the whole of Morocco will be electrified in six years time. (Chris Jackson/Getty Images)
The shift is part of a broader push toward pluralism and openness by the nation's 44-year-old ruler, King Mohammed VI.
Amid economic woes, his flashy lifestyle and new celebrity wife add to his political troubles.
LONDON - APRIL 06: Police officers restrain a protester along the route of the Olympic Torch outside Downing Street on April 6, 2008 in London, England. The torch for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is to be carried by respected athletes and celebrities from Wembley Stadium to the O2 Dome, passing China Town, Trafalgar Square, the Houses of Parliament and London Bridge, amid crowds of spectators. Demonstrations over China's human rights record and actions in Tibet are expected along the route. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
San Francisco braces for demonstrations on Wednesday, when the Olympic torch makes its only North American stop.
The U.N.'s António Guterres appeals to nations to help ward off hunger and political turmoil.
Children play in front of the Shenyang Olympic Sports Center Stadium, one of the five football venues of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, in Shenyang, capital of northeast China's Liaoning province. (Sheng Li/Reuters)
The threat of violence in San Francisco prompts officials to reroute procession.
Diplomacy stalls as critics of current U.S. policy say new approaches, and new incentives, are needed.
(Kevin Horan--Aurora for USN&WR)
What the future holds for the tiny African nation depends on the impact new leadership will have in government efforts to overcome a violent past.
The top American commander in Iraq asks for patience and says the effort is "worth it."
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2nd-L), surrounded by his security agents, waves as he leaves at the end of a ceremony at the Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem honouring Israel's fallen soldiers one day before Remembrance Day on May 6, 2008. Israel this week celebrates its 60th birthday with military displays, barbecues and a Bible quiz but also with a cloud of uncertainty hanging over its prime minister's political future. (Jim Hollander/AFP/Getty Images)
A bribery investigation threatens to bring down Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
An elderly woman eats at home in Havana surrounded by posters of Cuban President Fidel Castro (right) and Ernesto Che Guevara. Castro resigned Tuesday as president and commander in chief of Cuba in a message published in the online version of the official daily Granma.
With Fidel aging and ailing, his younger brother steps in to lead Cuba.
U.S. marines are on the way, but much now depends on whether France sends reinforcements.
n this photo released by Altor International Gorilla Conservation Program (IGCP) Goma, and made available Thursday Aug. 9, 2007, four rare mountain gorillas are seen tied to makeshift stretchers in Virunga National Park in eastern Congo, after they were found dead by rangers on Monday July 23, 2007. Conservation experts appealed Friday Aug. 17, 2007 for help to improve security and animal safety at a wildlife park in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the four mountain gorillas were massacred in July. (ALTOR IGCP GOMA/AP)
The killings of four mountain gorillas may have been payback for park management's crackdown on the "charcoal mafia."
Over two decades after the disaster, radiation-poisoned former workers say the Russian government adds to their suffering.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto rides the Pakistani Peoples bus during her welcome home parade October 18, 2007 in Karachi, Pakistan. Daniel Berehulak -- Getty Images
The opposition leader's death jeopardizes a hoped-for democratic transition.
Corrupt doctors and middlemen take from the poor and sell to rich foreigners who come seeking transplants.
Performers enact a commemorative ceremony to mark the 2555th birthday of Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, politician and educator of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C., at the Confucius temple in Qufu, northeastern China's Shandong province, 28 September 2004. Confucianism, major system of thought in China, developed from the teachings of Confucius and his disciples, has influenced the Chinese attitude toward life, set the patterns of living and standards of social value, and provided the background for Chinese political theories and institutions, spreading to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam and has aroused interest among Western scholars. Although Confucianism became the official ideology of the Chinese state, it has never existed as an established religion with a church and priesthood. (AFP/Getty Images)
The rise of the most populous nation has vast implications for America and the world.
Few now doubt global warming, though they disagree on the severity of the danger.
Wounded Egyptian soldiers captured by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War. (Terry Fincher/Getty Images)
At the heart of the conflict 40 years ago lay the Arab refusal to accept Israel's legitimacy and statehood.
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(Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
The flame has been snuffed by anti-China demonstrators.
Pope John Paul II's tumultuous reception as he enters Yankee Stadium in New York, where he said mass, during his visit to the United States. Oct. 2, 1979 (Thomas J. O'Halloran for USN&WR)
The history of the modern Papacy in pictures.
Marianne Lavelle. (Charlie Archambault for USN&WR)
The price run-up was predicted months ago.
Michael Barone
Douglas Feith's new book, War and Decision, is a step forward in understanding the Iraq conflict.
Mortimer Zuckerman
We haven't touched bottom and the market can't solve this problem on its own.
A new book examines what the more than 1 billion Muslims think about gender, race, and terrorism.
Ninety years after the declining Ottoman Empire campaigned against an ethnic group, controversy over labeling the incident continues.
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