Niko Alm, a member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, argued that a pasta strainer worn upside down on his head was a requirement of his religion, “pastafarianism.”
Indonesian security forces on Wednesday raided an Islamic boarding school suspected of being a bomb factory only to find dozens of armed students they had besieged there had somehow slipped away.
By signing Bob Vander Plaats' "Marriage Vow," Bachmann agreed to ban pornography, called homosexuality a choice, and implied that slavery at least guaranteed that children grew up in two-parent households.
Senior US lawmakers ignored warnings from China and met with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Washington on Thursday, praising him as an example to humanity.
The U.S. military has approved a possible death penalty in the future military trial of Nidal Malik Hasan, the American Muslim accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
