Ohio executes killer of shopkeeper in second use of single-drug IV injection

Ohio executes man in second use of 1-drug method

Pope calls Turkey ‘bridge between Islam and the West’

ROME - Pope Benedict XVI called Turkey a “bridge between Islam and the West,” during a discussion with the new Turkish ambassador to the Vatican Thursday.

Clashes erupt after Egypt church shooting

CAIRO - Huge crowds of Christians clashed with police in the southern Egyptian town of Nagaa Hamadi Thursday after a shooting outside a Coptic Christian church that left six teenagers and one policeman dead.

Buddhism in spotlight after TV pundit Hume’s comments on Tiger Woods scandal upset faithful

Comments on Buddhism, Tiger Woods upset faithful

Pope thanks security forces for ‘humble yet indispensable’ work keeping Vatican safe

Pope thanks guards for keeping him, Vatican safe

Uganda’s president urges lawmakers to remove death penalty provision from anti-gay bill

Ugandan president urges softening of anti-gay bill

Richard Gere campaigns to turn Bodh Gaya into vegetarian zone

PATNA - Hollywood star Richard Gere, who is in Bodh Gaya in Bihar to attend a five-day discourse on Buddhism by Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, Thursday supported the demand to turn the town where Buddha attained enlightenment into a vegetarian zone.

Kumbh Mela: 150 doctors, 31 hospitals to control swine flu

DEHRADUN - Uttarakhand has set up 31 temporary hospitals and trained at least 150 doctors to check any swine flu outbreak during Kumbh Mela, one of the largest religious congregations in the world that begins Jan 14.