Afghan President Hamid Karzai has arrived in Pakistan to discuss the extradition of recently captured militant leaders.

The sex scandals seem to be endless for the Catholic Church as new allegations of child abuses are surfacing in a Roman Catholic convent in Germany.

Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has strongly condemned a move by the Italian judiciary to detain two Iranian nationals.

The United Nations Council of Human Rights is intended to condemn a move by Switzerland to impose a ban on the construction of new minarets in the Alpine nation, characterizing the measure as "Islamophobic."

A team of Iranian and Italian experts have discussed possible methods to restore Pasargadae in Iran's southern Fars Province.