Coming under local and international criticism after a series of marriages of young girls to men at the age of their fathers, Saudi Arabia is considering a total ban on underage marriages. Currently, Saudi Arabia has no legal age limit for marriage.

Cinco de Mayo, one of Mexico's most well recognized regional holidays, will be celebrated quietly this year in the wake of the swine flu sweeping through Mexico City: Museums, theaters, cinemas, libraries, closed through May 6th..,

A Times investigation finds the process so arduous that many principals don't even try, except in the very worst cases. Jettisoning a teacher solely because he or she can't teach is rare.

Twice the immigration judge asked the woman's name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New Yorker, for answering his question before the court interpreter had translated it into Mandarin.

An Israeli court has sentenced two border guards over the unlawful killing of a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank town of Hebron seven years ago.

TRAVELLERS have been warned to expect significant delays after thermal scanners started screening passengers for high temperatures at all of Australia's international airports last night. Health Minister Nicola Roxon yesterday announced the measures along

Turkish riot police fired water cannon and tear gas in clashes with May Day demonstrators in Istanbul Friday.

"Everyone who works has the right to just and favorable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection." The conditions simply don't exist for Pal

Mayor Bloomberg and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (holding up hand disinfectant) explain the outbreak of swine flu, and urge New Yorkers to take precautions.

N THE decade since the Chinese government began repressing Falun Gong, a crusade that hum-an rights groups say has led to the imprisonment of thousands of practitioners and claimed at least 2,000 lives, world attention has long since shifted elsewhere.IOi