Globe Trot: Kurdish children detail ISIS torture

ISIS: Kurdish children from Kobani were tortured and abused for months while detained by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Human Rights Watch documented in a report released yesterday. ISIS detained 153 Kurdish boys aged 14-16 last May and held them until September and October, forcing them to endure beatings and to watch videos of ISIS beheadings.

ELECTIONS 2014:Mainstream media overseas are crying in their soup like their U.S. counterparts after yesterday’s GOP rout of Democrats. But around the world, many overseas leaders already saw President Barack Obama as a lame duck on the world stage.

PAKISTAN: Commanded from mosque loudspeakers, a Muslim mob in Punjab Province killed a Christian couple yesterday after a co-worker accused the wife of defiling the Quran. Shama Bibi, a 28-year-old mother of four who was also five months pregnant, was beaten to death and her body thrown into a brick kiln on the site where her family lived and worked. Her husband Shahzad was thrown into the kiln fire alive by the mob of about 3,000. Shama Bibi had burned as trash and thrown out amulets she said her late father-in-law used to practice black magic, but onlookers accused her of desecrating Quranic pages.

TURKEY: A Turkish judge in Izmit filed a criminal complaint against the city’s police chief and an army captain in connection with a 2012 attack on Izmit Protestant Church and its pastor Emre Karaali, a Muslim convert to Christianity. The charges came after one of 13 suspects in the case said the group was in contact with the country’s National Intelligence Agency. Rarely in Pakistan are authorities charged in connection with attacks on Christians.

NIGERIA: Inside the vigilante movement to combat Boko Haram, Muslims are just as frustrated with the government’s lack of law enforcement to prevent attacks aimed primarily at Christians, and are taking matters into their own hands.

AUSTRALIA: The Sydney Opera House gets a facelift with the help of a solution of olive oil and baking powder and a special adviser who’s watched over it for 45 years.