
Nearly a year after the worst riots in China's far west in more than a decade, stories of asylum seekers are among the few accounts to emerge of how some Uighurs got out amid a government crackdown.

Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the killing of a young woman in Peru last month and in the 2005 disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway, suffers from mental problems, his mother told a Dutch newspaper in an interview published on its website Sunday.
Five Somali men were sentenced to prison Thursday for attacking a Dutch Antilles-flagged cargo ship with automatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, in the first piracy case to come to trial in Europe in modern times.

The Japanese earned their first World Cup victory on foreign soil Monday when Keisuke Honda scored in the first half for a 1-0 victory over uninspired Cameroon in Group E of the World Cup.

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to reconsider a lower court's order that California release tens of thousands of inmates because of overcrowding issues in that state's prisons.
The only way to prevent the spread of Islamic ideology is to "compete," says Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her new book "Nomad."
Tucked into a gritty corner of Avenue de Lafayette in northern Paris, Chez Papa is better known for serving up french fries and steak than a workers revolution.

In a German editorial last year, Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, wrote a scathing attack in Die Walt, Germany's largest daily paper, against Europe's failure to grasp the extent of the Islamic threat.
In a German editorial last year, Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, wrote a scathing attack in Die Walt, Germany's largest daily paper, against Europe's failure to grasp the extent of the Islamic threat.