Leading Muslim calligrapher shot
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One of the Muslim world's leading calligraphers, Khalil al-Zahawi, has been shot dead in Baghdad.
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Reader Sameer Shaikh sends us a picture.
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MINA, Saudi Arabia  - Mohamed Mubarak, a Sudanese carpenter living in the Saudi city of Medina, prepared two pieces of white cloth, a prayer mat, a Koran and two oranges, his identity papers and about 600 riyals ($160).
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Pakistani police released a photograph of the reconstructed face of a second man suspected to have been involved in a suicide attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto that killed 139 people, police said on Friday.
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An elderly Bangladeshi Muslim man takes part in the last prayer of the &quot;Biswa Ijtema&quot; or World Islamic Congregation on the outskirts of Dhaka, December 5. Approximately four million Muslim devotees from Bangladesh and abroad raised their hands seeking
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The Museum of Danish Cartoon Art in Copenhagen, part of the Royal Library of Denmark, is in discussions to buy the 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited riots leading to 50 deaths around the world after they were published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, The Art Newspaper reported. âThe caricatures have become a part of Danish history,â Jytte Kjaergaard, a spokeswoman for the Royal Library, said. Claus Seidel, one of the cartoonists and the chairman of a Danish cartoonists association, said, âWe have generally agreed that we want a museum to have the works, but everyone still has to take a final decision for himself.â.
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Denmark's five major daily newspapers republished on Wednesday one of the 12 drawings of the Prophet Mohammad which angered Muslims around the world, as a protest against a plot to murder one of the cartoonists.
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Reader Toral Mehta sends us her photograph with Anupam Kher.
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Mumtaz Ahmad spent more than three years at a madrasa in Pakistan learning the Koran, then pursued his pious desire to become a Qari' -- one who recites the Muslim holy book -- at a similar Islamic religious school in Kabul.
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COMPUTER software which gives children a chance to create their own comic strips is proving a hit with pupils at Frederick Bird Primary School.  Shefateur Rhaman and Alamin Hussain, both 11, brought in toys from home and took pictures of them with a digital camera.
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Danish newspapers reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a gesture of solidarity Wednesday after police revealed a plot to kill the creator of the caricature that sparked deadly riots in the Muslim world.
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Signs reading âEid Mubarak,â or Happy Eid, hang on the walls of a Crown Point mosque as local Muslims celebrate the closing of their holiest month.
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International peacekeepers in Afghanistan said they had received a tip-off that a &quot;terrorist&quot; posing as a cameraman was trying to enter the capital.
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Perhaps the last handwritten newspaper in the world operates in Chennai, where four professional calligraphers put out The Musalman daily.
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A Swedish artist threatened with  death over his drawing of a dog with the head of Islam&#39;s  Prophet Mohammad said on Tuesday he drew the picture to spark  debate about freedom of expression in the art world.
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Swedish Muslims demonstrated Friday against a newspaper that published a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body and demanded its chief editor apologize.
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Mahesh Manjrekar wants a new face to perform an item number in his film, Musafir.