Animal rights activists are pressuring the Indian and Nepalese governments to ban a mass sacrifice by Hindus of goats and other animals after 50,000 were killed in one week in one city alone.

Today Maoists in Nepal intensified their protests, railing in the capital and pledged to block district administration offices nationwide.

A Filipino woman was found and freed by Israeli police last week in East Jerusalem. She had been kept captive by the family for almost two years. Israeli police made the announcement that they arrested two people in the case on September 13. 2009.

Former Spice Girls singer Geri Halliwell has launched a campaign to promote maternal health care and women’s rights in Nepal.

Over 800 young environmentalist from 110 different countries gather Monday, to discuss possible courses of action that will lessen the effects of climate change.

From time to time scientists find new species on the planet. Now they have found a flying frog. The delightful creature is the talk of the Internet right now, so there has to be something significant here. Let’s check it out.

Joanna Lumley, Campaigner and TV star of Absolutely Fabulous, met with Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Downing Street this morning, to pile the pressure and finally bring victory for the Gurkhas.

How much money is necessary to be happy? That was the difficult question which troubled Switzerland-based couple Markus and Anita Rytz all their lives.

Muslim mothers proclaim their sons and daughters as heroes when their children arm themselves to commit suicide in order to kill innocent civilians. Their communities proclaim them heroes; but they are not, making their deaths the saddest kind of all.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has resigned following a confrontation with the President Ram Baran Yadav over the firing of army chief Rookmangud Katawal. Yadav rejected the firing of Katawal.