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ROME (Aug. 29) – “Christianophobia” is a growing problem around the world and it must be fought with the same determination as anti-Semitism or Islamophobia, the Vatican said on Friday. Read more
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Police finally entered the burnt-out mansion of tycoon Christopher Foster for the first time today – but said it could be ‘days’ before the owners are located. Read more
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OHIO – A mother was convicted of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defence attorney’s claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible. Read more
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A Georgian man sits Aug. 17, 2008, in Gori, Georgia, near where a Russian bomb devastated a Georgian apartment complex during fighting. Read more
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1. It mutes the “experience” issue. A big theme of the Republican attack ads against Democratic nominee Barack Obama is that he’s “dangerously unprepared” to be the President of the United States. So their 72-year-old cancer-survivor nominee picks for his veepmate someone who has been governor of a state with a population the size of [...]
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7:02pm UK, Friday August 29, 2008 Republican John McCain has announced Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential candidate and declared that her strong principles and fighting spirit will help him shake up Washington. [...]
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Rex Features Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose reportedly propositioned Kelly Osbourne at a recent Hollywood party. New York fashion designer Richie Rich claimed that he was with Osbourne when Rose began behaving oddly. He told OK!: “He was really weird with her. He kept leering at her and saying, ‘I want to f*** you!’”. [...]
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What do I always say about corporations? It’s all about the money. In this case, Air Canada’s regional carrier, Jazz, has decided to remove life vests from its planes to reduce weight, and save fuel. Read more
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ROME – An art museum in northern Italy said yesterday it will continue displaying a sculpture of a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI. Read more
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Denver — Throughout Invesco Field Thursday were African-Americans who grew up in the Jim Crow South. They had to be here just because they had to be here. Many had been at the Rev. Martin Luther King’s speech in Washington, D.C. 40 years ago today. As one woman from Mississippi said, “It was almost like [...]
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The Labour Party controls Britain’s government today, not the Conservative Party whose members are commonly known as the “Tories.” In the British parliamentary system, in which parties out of power play a sharply defined role as the political opposition, these organizations usually have their own “shadow” line-up of members of Parliament who occupy themselves with [...]
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Por meses, la desconexión de Barack Obama con América Latina ha dejado a muchos funcionarios y observadores en la región preguntándose lo que una administración demócrata significarÃa para el futuro de las relaciones. Ahora la búsqueda de una respuesta continúa con su acompañante de fórmula. Read more
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Russia’s conflict with Georgia is the sign of a “weak” Russian nation, not a newly assertive one, and Moscow now has put its place in the world order at risk, the top U.S. diplomat for relations with the country said in an interview yesterday. Read more
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MOSCOW, Aug. 29 — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he had reason to think U.S. personnel were in the combat zone during the recent war in Georgia, adding that if confirmed, their presence suggested “someone in the United States” provoked the conflict to help one of the candidates in the American presidential [...]
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CHALMETTE, La., Aug. 28 — Determined to avoid the mistakes made when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, federal and state officials began preparations for massive evacuations if it becomes clear that Tropical Storm Gustav will sweep over the region with the same force as Katrina. Read more
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HARARE, Zimbabwe, July 2–Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai announced Wednesday that he would not join a unity government as a junior partner to President Robert Mugabe, who he has accused of beating, torturing and murdering his way to re-election last week. Read more
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 28 — Iraq and China signed a $3 billion deal this week to develop a large Iraqi oil field, the first major commercial oil contract here with a foreign company since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Read more
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SRINAGAR, India — Inside dozens of cramped kitchens in this Kashmiri city on Saturday, mothers and daughters prepared to make packets of rice for the hundreds of thousands expected at a sit-in two days later. Outside, their sons and brothers collected change from motorists to buy water and juice. Read more
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TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament approved a resolution on Thursday calling on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Russia after Moscow backed the secession of two Georgian rebel regions. Read more
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DENVER (Reuters) – Barack Obama, about to take a historic step as the Democratic presidential nominee, promised on Thursday to reverse the economic failures of the last eight years, end the war in Iraq and restore America’s reputation. Read more