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By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press U.S. aircraft dropped leaflets seeking information about three U.S. soldiers feared captured by al-Qaida, as troops intensified the search Tuesday despite a warning from the terror group that the hunt will endanger the captives' lives. The...

10:36 PDT Lake Luzerne, N.Y. (AP) -- A young man shot himself without using a gun. Damion M. Mosher, who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings, was hit in the abdomen by one of the shots, authorities said. Warren County deputies said they...

Stewart M. Powell San Francisco Chronicle (05-13) 04:00 PDT Washington -- With the nation eager for a way to end the war in Iraq, five historians of the Vietnam War have advice on how to end U.S. involvement in Iraq, based on their research into the conclusion of the U.S. role in...

Did Jesus struggle? YES! Besides being fully divine, Jesus was also fully human. That means that He had to learn to live the Sermon on the Mount long before He preached it. He had to discover how to love His enemies. Doing good to people who hurt or opposed Him was sometimes difficult for...

In December 2001, U.S. Attorney-General John Ashcroft announced plans to deploy military personnel to patrol the Canada-U.S. border. After September 11, Ashcroft criticized Canada’s “porous” border, though there was no evidence that any of the terrorists, all holding legal U.S. visas, came...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables. The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five...

By TAHIRA YAQOOB - Angry Scientologists are trying to get a BBC documentary about their faith scrapped amid claims of "gross bias" by presenter John Sweeney. The Panorama programme, to be shown tonight, investigates whether the Church of Scientology has moved away from its past as a...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) -- Victims of Eric Rudolph, the anti-abortion extremist who pulled off a series of bombings across the South, say he is taunting them from deep within the nation's most secure federal prison, and authorities say there is little they can do to stop him. Rudolph, who...

By STEPHANIE FARR & REGINA MEDINA JOSEPH KACZMAREK/Daily News Police, above, remove the body of Arty Miller yesterday from the home on Master Street near Hancock, Kensington, where it was discovered Saturday night by family members. Below, Princessa Miller mourns the death of her son...

(CBS) NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - Police say a 50-year-old man living in his mother’s home killed a transvestite prostitute with a garden hoe after bringing him back to the house, police said Wednesday. John Freeman of Northridge was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder. Freeman’s mother was out...

By BETTY ADAMS from the Morning Sentinel FARMINGDALE -- State and federal authorities arrested a Farmingdale man Thursday on charges of violating the privacy of his family members by videotaping them without their knowlege while they were using the toilet.John...

By PAUL SIMS - Target: Nick Mallinson, aged nine A boy of nine suffered horrific burns to his face after he was sprayed with a can of deodorant and set alight. Nick Mallinson may need plastic surgery after the apparently motiveless attack as he rode his bike through a park. He was...

By Joan Bryden OTTAWA (CP) - Canadians are not impressed with the Conservative government's handling of the Afghan detainee issue or its new green plan, a new poll suggests. The two issues have dominated parliamentary debate for the last month, during which the Tories' lead in public...

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- Prosecutors issued arrest warrants Tuesday for eight former prison employees accused of abusing inmates, including forcing some to clean toilets with their tongues. The eight were among 13 prison employees who had already been fired from the 605-inmate medium and...

Hundreds of people accused of being paedophiles were actually victims of credit card fraud claims BBC Radio 4 programme The Investigation Hundreds of Britons accused of being paedophiles in the country's biggest Internet child...

KRISTEN GELINEAU BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - When Fred McChesney heard about the Virginia Tech shooting spree on April 16, he was appalled. But what he did next has appalled many others. Within hours of the rampage, the Phoenix man began buying dozens of domain names - CampusKillings.com...

By Dean Beeby OTTAWA (CP) - Thousands of tourists will flock to Parliament Hill again this summer eager for a peek into the venerable House of Commons, still a dignified chamber despite the buffoonery that often occurs inside. And once again, thousands will be turned away disappointed, as...

A 10-metre section of a shipwreck, possibly from the 19th century, has washed up on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island. A portion of a ship's timber hull washed up on a beach near Cavendish last week. Jean Ronahan, who lives in nearby French River, suspects it may have broken loose...

PARIS (AFP) - Right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy emphatically won France's presidential election on Sunday, securing a clear mandate to carry out a programme of sweeping social and economic reforms. "I will not betray you, I will not lie to you, I will not disappoint you," Sarkozy told some 30,000...

Statements of the Fathers are not meant as a direct proof of doctrine since the patristic writings are not inspired Scripture nor in Catholic theology are the Fathers considered infallible as individuals. However, they ARE witnesses to the authentic Christian faith as it was handed down and...