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Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa is creator of The 99, an Islamic-themed superhero comic about 99 teenagers. Each of the youngsters has their own blessed stone providing him or her with a super-power. Al-Mutawa talks about the comics, based on one of the 99 traits of Allah.

In one of his most public meetings with a U.S. president, the Dalai Lama is set to receive Congress' highest honor. The ceremony comes at a bad time for China, which is angered by the award.

Alexis Sinduhije, a Burundian journalist, will receive an International Press Freedom Award this week from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Sinduhije is the founder of Radio Publique Africaine, a radio station that has brought together Hutu and Tusti reporters. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and Sinduhije.

Simmering conflicts about immigration, integration and Islam in Europe have flared into a debate about whether a big, new mosque should be built in Cologne, Germany. But another large, new mosque an hour's drive away faces little opposition.

When the House Foreign Relations Committee approved a measure that would officially declare the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in the early 19th century genocide, it revived a political debate.

San Diego Asian Film Festival: Finishing the Game

A proposed resolution that would designate the slaughter of Armenians by the Ottomon Turks during World War I as "genocide" is making its way through Congress.

Violence is growing in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a hotbed of ethnic tensions among its Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen residents. It now appears that the long dispute over whether the city will become part of the autonomous Kurdistan is not likely to be resolved this year. A referendum on it was due before 2008.

If the U.S. needs to stay in Iraq to mediate a civil war, it will be many years before we are able to leave. That's the basic message a UCSD political scientist who has made modern civil wars the focu

Today is Columbus Day. It’s a holiday to recognize the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, but not everyone considers this a positive holiday. We check in with the president of an organization that