By KAREN RUSSO-She's been called a leader and an icon, and her actions are considered revolutionary - all because 13-year-old Rekha Kalindi refused to be married off and wanted to attend school instead.

If ratified by the Senate, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) will be the fourth major human rights treaty ever adopted by the U.S. and the first it has adopted in the 21st century. The American Civil Libertie

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer -LONDON - Protesters across the world on Saturday called on Iran to end its clampdown on opposition activists, demanding the release of hundreds rounded up during demonstrations against the country's disputed elect

French president in medical testing after falling ill during workout. Later, officials in his office said Sarkozy had been taken to hospital after suffering some kind of problem while exercising at La Lanterne, his weekend retreat .....

Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Australia's biggest film festival over a documentary about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer.

After Israel's housing minister called on Jews to move to the north of the country to stop what he described as "the spread of Arabs" there, the BBC's Katya Adler reports on the struggle for land in the area.

To help restart peace talks, the U.S. has been pressing Israel to halt all construction in settlements built on captured land claimed by Palestinians. Some 280,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements, in addition to 180,000 residents in East Jerusalem

How many times must we go thru this? I$rael must stop usurping land that does not belong to I$rael! Americans give I$rael $10 million/day for FREE health cae and FREE higher education. THIS MUST STOP NOW!

In the new Israeli debate, America is perceived as an enemy - and the dispute is going personal. It's time to cancel the $10 million per day American$ "give" to I$raeli$ for FREE health care and FREE higher education!!!

LONDON - Harry Patch, Britain's last survivor of the trenches of World War I, was a reluctant soldier who became a powerful eyewitness to the horror of war, and a symbol of a lost generation. Patch, who died Saturday at 111, was wounded in 1917