By AFPKneeling in front of a turbanned judge in a tiny room at the Ghazni Court of Appeal in eastern Afghanistan, an old man sentenced to death for murder pleads for his life.The 75-year-old admits to having shot dead a relative -- out of revenge, he...

The issue of the indiscriminate slaughter of sacrifices on Eid al-Adha has been causing widespread controversy for many years. Some still insist on slaughtering the animal at the side of the road or at the doorstep of the house, on the grounds that t...