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Britain's Channel 4 is airing the three-minute call to prayer at 3 a.m. every day for the entire month of Ramadan. Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin talks to Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra of the Muslim Council of Britain.

In the courtroom, George Zimmerman was released and his GPS monitor cut off. Host Rachel Martin explains the verdict and reaction.

Prosecutors had trouble proving George Zimmerman's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Host Rachel Martin talks to Kenneth Nunn, a University of Florida law professor, about the legal issues in the Zimmerman case.

A jury in Florida has acquitted George Zimmerman in the charges stemming from the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year in Sanford, Florida.

Robert Zimmerman, Jr., tells NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday that it will be a "long time" before his brother is able to return to a normal life.

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has said it will push for a civil rights case against George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of black teen Trayvon Martin.

An opposition group in exile says some 200 people are holed up inside the Damascus mosque as government forces close in on rebel-held territory.

An Australian restaurant owner wants to replace the most common word in the English language, "the," with a new symbol. He wants to create more space for typing, texting and Twitter. But will this character be as popular as the ampersand, which sometimes replaces "and" with the symbol "&"?

When J.K. Rowling published The Cuckoo's Calling, her first post-Potter book, she decided to go by the name Robert Galbraith.

The 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader, Nobel laureate and first black president of South Africa has been hospitalized for weeks with a lung infection.