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Arts & Culture
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Music
8/14/2012 1:01:36 PM
The dominant Russian Orthodox Church's tough stance against the all-girl punk band Pussy Riot has troubled some faithful and estranged it from the younger generation it must foster for future growth
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Life & Style
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Food
8/12/2012 8:24:52 PM
Think chefs are only good for cooking? This Michelin-star kitchen brandished their knives to warn off some thugs - now sentenced - from the 2011 riots in London
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Business
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Economy
8/9/2012 11:52:00 PM
Attempts by major food importing nations to shelter their populations from effects of a U.S. drought may make a bad situation worse, 5 years after last jump in crop prices provoked rioting in some of world's most fragile states
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Arts & Culture
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Music
8/7/2012 10:16:36 PM
American pop singer Madonna urges the Russian president Valdimer Putin to release the three members of the Pussy Riot protest band who face three years in jail
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Arts & Culture
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Music
8/7/2012 1:47:05 PM
The three women members of Pussy Riot face charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after singing a song against Vladimir Putin in a church; the case is ongoing
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World
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International
8/1/2012 9:49:35 PM
All-girl Russian punk band members, arrested after performing an anti-Vladimir Putin song, complain of ill treatment, exhaustion and living in a 'semi-conscious state', as they undergo detention and attend trial hearings
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World
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International
7/30/2012 3:59:30 PM
Three members of an all-girl punk band voiced regret for causing offence by performing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in Russia's top Orthodox cathedral but said they were innocent of their charges
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World
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Region
7/27/2012 12:59:08 PM
Witnesses say that Saudi police opened fire on Shiite protesters in the turbulent Qatif district; the Interior minister claims no casualties and says security forces dealt with 'rioters who burned tyres'
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World
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Region
7/14/2012 7:57:39 PM
Turkey's riot police fires water cannon and teargas and catches Kurdish protesters in response to a militant operation that led to the injury of 12 police officers in southeast of the country
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
7/1/2012 10:02:57 AM
The interviewed artist agreed asked not to be named. Picking up a piece of work vandalized by Islamist zealots at a recent arts fair in a suburb of Tunis, she said: "Don't describe it or people will know who I am."
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World
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Region
6/20/2012 7:58:12 PM
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World
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Region
6/20/2012 3:21:47 PM
Scuffles between Sudanese protesters and riot police resume as rallies take off against government cuts and chant for the overthrow of the regime
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
6/19/2012 3:34:40 PM
After the rioting by Tunisian Salafists on 12 June over an exibition deemed 'insulting' to Islam, armed gunmen stormed the Tunisian consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi yesterday
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Arts & Culture
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Stage & Street
6/19/2012 3:11:01 PM
Tunisian artists, shaken over deadly riots by radical Islamists angered about artworks deemed blasphemous, say they feel abandoned by a culture minister who spoke out in defense of the protesters
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Business
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Economy
6/18/2012 7:06:59 PM
Sudanese students hurl stones at riot police amid protests against the regime's decision to raise taxation and remove fuel subsidies 'step by step' aimed at encountering the country's severe economic crunch
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World
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International
6/18/2012 5:28:24 PM
Witnesses say at least 19 people were killed and dozens wounded as Christian youths had set up a roadclock and dragged Muslims from cars or motorbikes and kiled them, sparking religious tensions in Nigeria
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World
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International
6/18/2012 10:16:53 AM
Death toll from multiple suicide attacks on churches in northern Nigeria rises to 45; the attacks trigger rioting by Christian youth targeting Muslims in Kaduna
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World
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International
6/17/2012 6:23:04 PM
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World
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Region
6/17/2012 4:18:07 PM
Hundreds of Sudanese students protest for the second day against soaring food prices, face riot police
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World
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Region
6/15/2012 9:57:51 PM
Tunisia lifted a night time curfew imposed this week following riots by Islamists and others over an art exhibition they deemed insulting to Islam
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