Malaysian Hindu mother challenges husband who converted their 3 children to IslamKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Hindu woman is challenging her husband’s conversion of the couple’s three young children to Islam, the woman’s lawyer said Monday — the latest interfaith dispute over minors in Muslim-majority Malaysia. New Zealand pulls out of UN racism conference, notes likely will be unproductiveWELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand won’t take part in this week’s United Nations conference on racism, which it fears could descend into the same rancor as one in South Africa in 2001, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Monday. Jackie Chan’s China comments prompt backlash in Hong Kong, TaiwanHONG KONG — Action star Jackie Chan’s comments wondering whether Chinese people “need to be controlled” have drawn sharp rebuke in his native Hong Kong and in Taiwan. Survivor of Oklahoma City bombing: If time heals all wounds, why does it still hurt?OKALAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum brought together those who survived the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, family members of the victims and rescue workers for a program called “First Person: Stories of Hope.” King family is charging fees over project to build memorial to the civil rights leader in DCKing family draws fees from DC memorial project WASHINGTON — The family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has charged the foundation building a monument to the civil rights leader on the National Mall about $800,000 for the use of his words and image — an arrangement one leading scholar says King would have found offensive. |