The penthouse apartments at the top of the tallest tower in Pyongyang's showpiece development offer impressive views, ice green wallpaper and purple sofas – but had no hot water when the project opened Thursday.

The French Catholic priest who was murdered by two teenage jihadists in his Normandy church last year could soon be beatified, a first step toward being declared a saint, church officials said Thursday.

A fire ripped through makeshift shelters at a Muslim religious retreat in Senegal, killing at least 22 people and triggering a stampede, firefighters said Thursday.

A campaign called “Accept Me” has been launched in the Arab world to promote the culture of accepting the other.

Christophe Bouton, a philosophy professor at Montaigne University in Bordeaux, who wrote "The Time of Urgency", says that democracy is threatened by a contemporary preoccupation with speed.

In Cuba, it sometimes seems time stopped in the 1960s.

Indonesia's Aceh looks set to cane two men who admitted having sex in contravention of Islamic laws, an official said Monday, the first such punishment of a gay couple in the conservative province.

France on Saturday expelled controversial Swiss Islamist preacher Hani Ramadan who posed "a serious threat to public order," the interior ministry said.

More than 100,000 clerics and preachers rallied in the Bangladeshi capital against Islamist extremism Thursday after a resurgence of attacks by militant groups in the Muslim-majority nation.

A bishop in southwestern France resigned Thursday at the behest of the Vatican over "inappropriate behavior" towards youths, the French Catholic Church said.