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ROME – Mary MacKillop is expected to be named Australia’s first saint by Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday. Australia’s ambassador to the Holy See Tim Fischer said on Friday that while no official decision has been made, the Vatican has indicated it will make an announcement around midday (2200 AEDT) on Saturday. ”There is [...]
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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 [...]
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Pakistani fashion model Iraj adjusts her creation by designer Syed Rizwanullah during the second day of Fashion Pakistan Week on November 5, 2009 in Karachi, Pakistan. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) Read more
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who’s never been known to exactly mince words, sounded the alarm over the fractious Copenhagen climate summit, which has been marked by sniping divides over who needs to take action and who needs to pay for it. More from Agence France-Presse: “‘There is less than 24 hours. If [...]
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A week ago, the looming arrival of a new decade had me tackling the question “What have the last 10 years brought us?” I offered readers a list of now-common products, technologies, ideas and people — from Google to Lady Gaga — that almost no one had heard of, or even thought of, on [...]
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1:26pm UK, Friday December 18, 2009 Ruth Barnett and Graham Fitzgerald, Sky News Online The chance to agree a global climate change deal “hangs in the balance”, Barack Obama has told world [...]
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X Factor winner Joe McElderry has secured the top spot in this week’s Irish singles chart with debut solo release ‘The Climb’. Read more
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When Carlos Rivera returned from fighting in Iraq and found work as an electrician, he felt co-workers who knew about his military experience were gawking at him. Read more
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An infamous sign reading “Arbeit Macht Frei” or “Work makes you free” has been stolen from the Auschwitz memorial site in Poland. Polish police announced the sign — made by prisoners — had been nicked from the entrance of the former Nazi death camp overnight. Guards noticed it was missing this morning and [...]
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For months — or at least since Van Jones was still working for President Obama — we’ve wondered what it would take to get a rise out of GOP guv candidate Meg Whitman. Now we know: A radio ad from a… Read more
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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 [...]
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SPAIN Abortion restrictions likely to be eased Lawmakers voted to ease Spain’s abortion law Thursday, approving a bill to allow the procedure without restrictions up to 14 weeks of gestation. The change would bring this traditionally Roman Catholic country in line with its more secular counterparts in Northern Europe. The vote in the 350-seat Congress [...]
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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — An unusually large barrage of missiles fired by remotely piloted U.S. aircraft killed 16 people in the tribal area of North Waziristan on Thursday, a possible indication that the United States plans to escalate such attacks after Pakistan declined to step up its operations there. Read more
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SANTIAGO, CHILE — For Floripa Lizama and her family, the past is their slapdash wood-plank home located next to an unsightly concrete canal. Read more
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO — Arturo Beltrán Leyva, the alleged leader of one of this country’s top drug cartels, was killed Wednesday night in a two-hour gun and grenade battle with federal forces, ending the reign of a man who liked to describe himself as the “boss of bosses” in Mexico’s criminal underworld. Read more
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KAMPALA, UGANDA — Eritrea’s entire national soccer team is seeking asylum in Kenya, joining tens of thousands of compatriots who have fled one of Africa’s most repressive governments. Read more
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DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN — The night his 11-year-old son escaped from kidnappers, Abdul Aziz bundled a few belongings into a car and drove his family 18 miles north across the Afghan border into Tajikistan. “It is too frightening to live in Afghanistan anymore,” he said, standing in the bare, unlit room he now rents outside Dushanbe, [...]
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The former deputy U.N. envoy to Afghanistan, U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith, said on Thursday that he has launched legal action against the United Nations for firing him without any justification. Read more
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – U.S. backing for a $100 billion climate fund to help poor nations revived hopes for a deal to combat global warming on Thursday as world leaders met on the eve of a U.N. deadline for breaking deadlock. Read more