Controversial euthanasia bid sparks debate in Muslim-dominated Indonesia
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For the past four months Hasan Kusuma has kept a vigil at the bedside of his wife in grubby Jakarta hospitals, neglecting his children and emptying his bank account to pay expensive doctors' bills.
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JAKARTA : Indonesia faces testing times ahead in a month when the country&#39;s top concerns of terror and politics have come to a head, with a deadly suicide bomb attack just days before the last leg of mammoth elections.
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A court rejects a terminally ill man's request to die in a landmark case which has sparked fierce debate in Italy.
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Doctors were battling on Monday to save the life of former Indonesian President Suharto, who remains critically ill, while another of Southeast Asia's long-serving leaders was due to visit his bedside.
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The Iraqi government is split over whether to enforce the death sentence on Chemical Ali and two others.
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The row over a proposal to outlaw adultery in Turkey has shone the spotlight on the state of women's rights in the Muslim country.
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Pope John Paul branded euthanasia  a distortion of medical ethics on Friday, saying doctors could  not decide "who can live and who must die."
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Former Indonesian President Suharto's condition worsened Sunday, as his family granted doctors permission to take him off life support when they see fit, CNN's Richard Quest has reported.
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Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim state, urged the international community to look beyond the UN Security Council to end the Iranian nuclear crisis amid a looming deadline for Tehran to suspend all uranium enrichment activities.
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KAMPUNG PULAU MELAKA, Malaysia  - Malaysia's Islamist opposition party called on non-Muslims on Thursday to back its election campaign to apply strict sharia law, including amputations and stonings, for the country's Muslims.
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The kidnapping of British aid worker Margaret Hassan has generated a debate on Islamist Web sites, with many contributors urging the kidnappers to spare her life.
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The appointment of two Muslims to the Dutch cabinet reawakens a row in the country over dual nationality.
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Pope Benedict's comments about Islam   could hurt religious harmony, government and religious leaders   in the world's most populous Muslim countries, Indonesia and   Pakistan, said on Friday.
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JAKARTA : Indonesia, the world&#39;s most populous Muslim nation, urged Thailand Friday to bring to justice officers responsible for the deaths of more than 80 Muslims in the country&#39;s violence-plagued south.
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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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Dutch doctors are calling for a domestic legal framework that would allow them to end the lives of newborn babies suffering intolerable pain from incurable diseases, a move that rekindles the debate on the controversial issue of euthanasia.
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Doctors were battling on Monday to save the life of former Indonesian President Suharto, who remains critically ill, while another of Southeast Asia's long-serving leaders visited his bedside.