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. . . and eat people.

Another "cultural conflict" introduced by immigrants.

Beauty queen scandal draws attention to Muslim marriage practices.

Australian actress risks infertility to play the didgeridoo.

Primates are a common food source in Central Africa.

He might as well have used a "Wanted" poster for ID.

A human head can fetch up to £500.

Obama may need a 10-point lead to overcome "Bradley effect."

He didn’t let her go to school, made her work without pay, and raped her.

When you want a voodoo curse performed, don’t stiff the priestess

"God caused the bank to ignore my credit score and blessed me with my first house."

When a noose just doesn't send the right message.

Muslims bring tradition of mutilating their daughters to the West.

Diversity street theater in "a pretty Caucasian place."

The man who inspires Barack Obama's pastor.

Dominican Republic independence celebrated the Dominican way.

Boyfriend in gruesome murder case prepares theological defense.

White coed heads up Georgetown's NAACP chapter.

Baby rape doesn’t happen only in Africa.

She was "in the car of an unrelated male."

Tanzanian contestant commits digital rape on television; says, "This is Africa."

Victims were prepared for death for nearly a year.

Too few whites.

Nepal’s state-run airline finds priests are cheaper than engineers.

Washington goes brown.

Canadian academic says the are "good reasons" for female genital mutilation.

American whites: the once and future minority.

American Indians are really Muslims?

Staffers forced to pay for and participate in Santeria hocus-pocus.

Choking a toddler, naked woman covered in blood—not your European-style exorcism.

Witchcraft rampant in Jharkhand—more than 600 witches killed in last 10 years.

Advisory Council on Religious Education: Encouraging "success through diversity."

"Symbolic breastfeeding" would allow men and women employees to be alone together.

Puerto Rican ex-con has a largely Hispanic following.

What? No stakes through the heart?

Curious "purification" ritual inflames caste sensitivities in India.

Remains of two dozen children (5 to 8 years old) sacrificed at a single time found.

Funeral pyres may become legal in Britain.

British beauty gets her "Indian" wedding wrong; natives take offense.

Otherwise they'll face lives of "abuse and misery."

Not your mainstream voodoo.

Pakistanis present "marker" for payment: demand woman’s 17-year-old daughter.

Collapse of health services prompt return to ancestral beliefs and practices.

Local Pakistani militants declare fatwa against polio workers—and they mean business.

God, for Tanna islanders, is a mythical American named John Frum.

Just one of the things Sunnis and Shiites fight about.

Women to be flogged, too.

"Slavery is found in every region of the world"—Anti-Slavery International

In some areas, immunization teams have been attacked and beaten.

Valuable corpses.

Elephants and hippopotami are also at risk.

Even Kuwaiti pilgrims prayed for the end of "main evil," the United States.

Muslim hospital visitors bring in infections; refuse to use disinfectant.

Real hate crime.

Haitian immigrant believed his mother was placing Voodoo curses on him.

Pakistanis can now sacrifice cows, goats, sheep and camels by Internet.

Some people would just have thrown a party. Or asked for bonuses.

It’s hard to change imigrants' eating habits.

African families "throwing their children away."

Being fat is seen as a sign of wealth, health and happiness.

College business professor from Nigeria used punishments common in his native country.

Islam’s sharia law differs considerably from Western standards of justice.

How to get girls in Soweto.

Gov. minister wants all schoolgirls examined for signs of genital mutilation — even ethnic Swedes.

Detroit tradition spreads.

US now a market for guinea-pig meat, courtesy of immigration.

First US prosecution for increasingly common practice.

‘Wetback’ redux.

Seventy percent of Indian women believe they deserve a beating if dinner is late.

Witchdoctors in Zimbabwe tell patients sex with a virgin will cure AIDS.

Height-conscious Chinese risk disfigurement from surgery to lengthen legs.

West Africans eat kaolin despite health risks.

Widow finds decapitated animals on her husband's grave.

PC UK.

Thousands of British and American "nationals" are forced into marriages at young ages.