Yale University, one of the leading centers of liberal education in the United States, on Friday defended controversial restrictions on protests and political parties at its new Singapore campus.

Yale-NUS College, a partnership with the National University of Singapore, was launched with "full awareness" of the city-state's laws governing freedom of expression, Yale University President Richard Levin said.

Nearly 100,00O Muslim worshippers poured into Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City for the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan, an Israeli police spokesman said.

"Nearly 100,000 Palestinians from the West Bank" and east Jerusalem "were at the Temple Mount for prayers," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, adding that no disturbances were reported.

Frustrated by the lack of old Bollywood glamour on the streets of Mumbai, two film buffs are trying to brighten up India's movie capital with mural tributes ahead of the industry's 100th birthday.

The iconic image of a reclining, cigarette-smoking young Amitabh Bachchan, the biggest star of Hindi cinema, has been lovingly recreated on a roadside wall, replicating the dying style of hand-painted poster art.

Broadly speaking, religion is less important for Asian Americans than for Americans overall, but that doesn't mean they shun faith altogether, a Pew Research Center study on Thursday suggests.

In "Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faith," Pew's Forum on Religion and Public Life found that most either count themselves as Christian or say they have no religious affiliation.

Archeologists have uncovered a 1,600-year-old Mayan temple dedicated to the "night sun" atop a pyramid tomb in the northern Guatemalan forest near the border with Mexico.

"The sun was a key element of Maya ruler ship," lead archeologist Stephen Houston explained in announcing the discovery by the joint Guatemalan and American team that has been excavating the El Zotz site since 2006.

Poland is preparing to mark one of the darkest episodes of the Holocaust, when the country's Nazi German occupiers launched an operation to kill the population of the Jewish ghetto they created in Warsaw.

Sunday's solemn tribute to the victims of the mass deportations that began on July 22, 1942, will be capped by a memorial concert in what was once the Polish capital's Jewish quarter.

FBI agents have recovered what is believed to be a Matisse painting valued at $3 million that was stolen from a Venezuelan museum 10 years ago, and arrested two suspects, authorities said Wednesday.

Pedro Antonio Marcuello Guzman, 46, of Miami, and Maria Martha Elisa Ornelas Lazo, 50, of Mexico City, were arrested and charged for transporting and possessing what is thought to be Matisse's 'Odalisque in Red Pants,' which was reported stolen from a museum in Caracas, U.S. prosecutors said in a statement.

A New York aerospace museum opened the space shuttle Enterprise to the public Thursday.

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has installed the space shuttle on the runway of the aircraft carrier "Intrepid," a museum facility docked at a pier on Manhattan's West Side.

One year after Anders Behring Breivik's deadly attacks, Norway will on Sunday commemorate his 77 victims with ceremonies set to reassert a national ambition to not let the carnage change its open, democratic values.

On July 22, 2011, the right-wing extremist first set off a bomb near the government building in Oslo, killing eight people, before going on a shooting rampage on the nearby Utoeya island, where the ruling Labor Party's youth wing was hosting a summer camp.

Sixty-four of Mexico's 364 Indian dialects are at "high risk" of dying out, with less than 100 speakers of each remaining, the head of the country's National Institute of Indian Languages said Tuesday.

Institute head Javier Lopez Sanchez said that in many cases, speakers of dying dialects are dispersed and no longer live in a single community.