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A new movement blames God for every social problem from Darfur to child abuse BRIAN BETHUNE God is a delusion, if his enemies are to be believed: nothing more than the creation of a species with prefrontal lobes too small, and aggressive instincts too strong, for its own good. His worship is...

CBC News A Windsor, Ont., man who pleaded guilty to 15 counts of aggravated sexual assault last month for engaging in unprotected sex without informing his partners of his HIV status was taken into custody on Friday. Carl Leone, 31, had been free on bail since late 2004, but the Crown had...

Unit Planning Outpost Confronts an Obstacle Known as 'Bob' By David Finkel Washington Post Staff Writer BAGHDAD, April 24 -- The soldiers called him Bob, and for the past several weeks, until Tuesday morning, he was the biggest obstacle to the success of an important mission in a small but...

Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote village in eastern India to catch a glimpse of an old man who has spent six years lying inside his own grave waiting to die as he mourns for his wife, officials said. Basanta Roy claims he is 103 and spends his day clearing weeds from the grave and...

By William Douglas McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - It's become President Bush's mantra, his main explanation for why he won't withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq anytime soon. In speech after speech, in statement after statement, Bush insists that "this is a war in which, if we were to...

HALIFAX (CP) - A police officer involved in a car crash at a Halifax intersection has been charged with failing to stop for a red light. The 24-year-old constable was responding to a call on April 22nd when her patrol car entered an intersection and slammed into another car, before hitting...

OTTAWA (CP) - The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled the world's first 100 kilogram pure gold coin. Listed as 99.999 per cent pure gold bullion, the new pizza-size coin is mainly a promotional product to give the mint a higher international profile. The 100-kilogram coin was conceived as a...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - Carmen Gonzalez plucks one of 50 frogs from the aquarium at her bus stop restaurant, bangs it against tiles to kill it and then makes two incisions along its belly and peels off the skin as if husking corn. She's preparing frog juice, a beverage revered by some Andean...

Fri May 4, 2:47 AM (CP) - The New York Mets feel so comfortable in Chase Field, they might as well call it home. The Mets have won 11 straight games in the hitter-friendly home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Thursday night's 9-4 victory topped them all. Damion Easley...

By Ken Peters ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - The Ducks' Niedermayer brothers teamed to finally end the game - and the series. Rob Niedermayer made a big hit to jar the puck loose, it squirted across to Scott, and the elder Niedermayer quickly got off a wrist shot from the left point. The puck got...

By Alexander Panetta OTTAWA (CP) - Hockey officials' impassioned defence of Team Canada's captain left an unimpressed Bloc Quebecois leader comparing Shane Doan to a bank robber and accusing him of racial profiling. Gilles Duceppe said it was wrong to make Doan captain of Canada's world...

WMAQ-TV CHICAGO - Local artist and drag performer Jojo Baby thinks he's fairly open minded, but what he saw inside a Wicker Park apartment this week blew him away. Baby was at eBay seller Brian Sloan's apartment to buy vintage mannequins for his studio, where he creates dolls and...