A third of the 198 countries studied had a high or very high level of social hostilities involving religion in 2012. About three-in-ten countries had a high or very high level of government restrictions on religion, roughly the same as in 2011.
The UN Climate Change Conference convened today in Warsaw with a call for governments to reach an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The talks begin against a public opinion backdrop in which fewer Americans see global climate change as a major threat than do people in most other regions.
The Vatican plans to ask a range of questions on topics related to the family, including divorce, artificial contraception and same-sex marriage.
The annual Muslim hajj (pilgrimage) to Mecca is underway, and more than a million pilgrims already have entered Saudi Arabia from abroad. These are five important facts about the hajj.
The International Labor Organization estimates there are 168 million child laborers worldwide, a third fewer than in 2000.
A global Pew Research Center survey finds a large gender gap in attitudes about U.S. government use of drones to target terrorists.
If you've ever woken up wondering "Is Bill Gates or Carlos Slim the world's richest person today?", Bloomberg's new visualization of data on the 100 richest billionaires is for you.
Worldwide, roughly two-thirds of the countries that allow gay marriage are in Western Europe.
A new Pew Research analysis finds that Muslims around the world who use the internet are much more likely than other Muslims to have a favorable opinion of Western movies, music and television and are somewhat more likely to see similarities between Islam and Christianity.
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