Pope Benedict XVI made his first trip to a Muslim country as pontiff Tuesday when he visited Turkey, where he urged religious leaders to reject all acts of violence in the name of faith.
Democrat Keith Ellison of Minnesota was the first Muslim to be elected to the House of Representatives.
Over the weekend, news of three suicides at the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba raised new questions about the manner in which the United States is treating terror suspects.
At least nine more people died in Western India Monday as a result of continuing violence between Hindus and Muslims that has left more than 570 dead in six days.
The Indian government has deployed troops to the western state of Gujarat to quell a third day of violence between Hindus and Muslims.
Mobs of angry Hindus rampaged through the western Indian state Gujarat, killing at least 58 Muslims in retaliation for an attack yesterday that left nearly 60 Hindus dead.
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