Aga Khan (chief commander) is the title of the imam, or spiritual leader, of the sect of Moslems known as Nizari Ismailis. The title was granted in 1818 by the Shah of Persia. The Ismailis are Shias, one of the two great sects of Islam. Unlike the...

AGA KHAN (Pers., Ᾱghā Khān). First conferred in 1817 on the Ismāʿīlī imam (spiritual leader) Ḥasan ʿAlī Shāh (d. 1881) by the Qajar shah of Iran, this hereditary title is now...

This article is about the hereditary title. For the incumbent, see Aga Khan IV. For other uses, see Aga Khan (disambiguation). Aga Khan (Persian: آقا خان ) is the hereditary title of the Imam (spiritual and general leader) of the Ismaili...

Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet.The reason? A massive garbage haul. Just about every unemployed man in Murad Khane was recruited to clean up years of litter and mud piled on top of the streets. By the...

Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet.The reason? A massive garbage haul. Just about every unemployed man in Murad Khane was recruited to clean up years of litter and mud piled on top of the streets. By the...

Hundreds of people held an anti-gay protest in Uganda's capital Tuesday, denouncing what they called an "immoral" lifestyle and demanding the deportation of an American journalist writing about gay rights in the deeply conservative country.Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda, like in most African states, and...

We’re over global warming … It’s real and it’s getting on our noives—the ice caps disappearing and the polar bears having to just be called “bears,” yes, but the final straw was having to deal with horrible sticky frizzy humidity in October—which should be the...