admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
THE Pope has made it as easy as possible for traditional and “continuing” Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism while retaining key elements of their ecclesiastical heritage.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A 1-year-old boy at the center of a right-to-life case in Britain will be removed from life support after his father made the agonizingly difficult decision to drop his opposition, British media reported Tuesday.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A 94-year-old war hero today pledged to hand back his medals after the Government refused to give him his winter fuel allowance.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The key countries in the Cold War pledged yesterday to fight division and meet the new challenges of the 21st century as Europe marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and […]
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and […]
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Thousands cheered the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday, watching a trail of 1,000 huge styrofoam dominoes collapse along a one-mile route where the nefarious barrier between communism and the Western world once stood. But there was a very special guest in attendance, too, reports the AP:
“Chancellor Angela Merkel and […]
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
I’m imagining a scene from the wedding of a political candidate:
Officiant: Do you pledge to love, honor and cherish, and to be true and loyal as long as you both shall live?
Candidate: I’m taking a look at that idea, yes.
Sparking this fantasy is a radio interview I heard Sunday night with state Sen. Kirk Dillard […]
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
12:33pm UK, Tuesday November 10, 2009
Huw Borland, Sky News Online
A fugitive wanted over the murder of a British teacher whose body was found in a sand-filled bathtub in Japan has been arrested.
Ichihashi and what he is thought to look like after surgery
Japanese police said Tatsuya Ichihashi, the only suspect in the killing of 22-year-old Lindsay […]
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Richard Parry has revealed that Arcade Fire are recording new material.
However, the musician refused to confirm that the tracks being laid down in New York will be included on a future album release.
Parry told The Quietus: “I am [in New York] doing some recording in a studio - Arcade Fire stuff… recording some strings for […]
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire Tuesday along their disputed western sea border, South Korean military officers said.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Unlike certain other wealthy California Republican candidates who used to play Silicon Valley CEOs on TV — cough ( Meg Whitman ), cough ( Steve Poizner ) — US Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina has never…
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private […]
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
LONDON — The British government unveiled plans Monday to launch one of the world’s most ambitious expansions of nuclear-power capacity, calling for the construction of 10 plants to help meet surging energy demands in the era of global warming.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
BEIJING — The editor in chief of a hard-driving Chinese magazine that tackled tough subjects such as corruption, pollution and workers’ rights resigned Monday, casting doubt over prospects for greater media independence.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
VERAPAZ, EL SALVADOR — Soldiers and townspeople dug through rock and debris Monday in hopes of finding dozens of people missing in a mudslide that swept down on a town, part of a wave of floods and landslides that killed at least 134 people in El Salvador.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, EGYPT — Wen Jiabao, China’s premier, has pledged $10 billion in new low-cost loans to Africa over the next three years and has defended his country’s engagement on the continent against accusations that it is “plundering” the region’s oil and minerals.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers passed an election law Sunday night, overcoming a weeks-long impasse and averting a constitutional crisis that threatened to delay the U.S. troop drawdown.
Read more
admin @ November 10, 2009 # No Comment Yet
VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States is willing to give Iran time to decide whether to accept a U.N.-brokered deal meant to allay suspicions it is after atomic bombs but which has drawn Iranian objections, a U.S. diplomat said on Monday.
Read more