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The Taleban in Afghanistan have used a boy of around 12 to behead a man they accused of spying for the US. Parts of a video of the beheading were broadcast on the Dubai-based al-Arabiya TV network. The Taleban said the dead man, Ghulam Nabi, had given the US information which led to an air...

(CNN) -- The family of the pilot killed Saturday watched as his F/A-18 Hornet crashed in a neighborhood during a U.S. Navy Blue Angels precision-flying team air show, Lt. Commander Anthony Walley said Saturday. A military source told CNN the jet clipped the top of a pine tree during a sharp...

By Dennis Bueckert OTTAWA (CP) - David Suzuki says Canadians are ready to pay for fighting climate change so long as it's fair. After a cross-country tour in which he heard from thousands of people in more than 40 cities, the veteran broadcaster and author says Canadians are ready for a carbon...

DETROIT (Reuters) - Henrik Zetterberg scored two power play goals and Daniel Cleary a penalty shot to give the Detroit Red Wings a 5-1 win over the Calgary Flames for a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven NHL playoff series on Saturday. The Wings, the top seed in the Western Conference, can end the...

Blockade of eastern Ont. rail line ends; protesters warn of further actions By Allison Jones DESERONTO, Ont. (CP) - A key organizer of an aboriginal blockade, which paralyzed passenger and freight rail traffic on the busy Toronto-Montreal corridor, is warning that the protest that ended...

Bill Also Boosts Minimum Sentences AUSTIN, Texas -- Backers of a Texas state Senate bill to toughen punishment for child-sex offenders said they've reached a deal that would permit the death penalty for offenders who repeatedly prey on children. The compromise bill, which was distributed to...

By James Ingham BBC News, Caracas There were a few strange looks skywards in Caracas as the new mini Zeppelin took to the skies. Steered by remote control from the ground, the balloon ducked and dived above the buildings, its pilot showing how manoeuvrable the machine can be. Presidential...

MARRERO, La. — Dozens of girls were turned away from a prom at Higgins High School because a teacher thought their dresses were too revealing. Families of the girls said the teacher cited alleged violations of the Jefferson Parish schools dress code, most of them related to excessive display...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Republican US presidential contender John McCain turned to popular music to illuminate the debate on the Middle East, singing at the suggestion that the United States "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran. "That old Beach Boys song, 'Bomb Iran'?" McCain said in response to a question about...

EDWARD LEWIS Plymouth Fire and Rescue waits outside a house on Turner Street in which gas was spread throughout the first floor. Times leader staff photo/aimee dilger PLYMOUTH – A 22-year-old man was arrested after police said he doused his mother and a relative’s home with gasoline at 72...

Remarks Deemed Sympathetic to Virginia Tech Killer AP BOULDER, Colo. (April 20) - A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said. During a...

By: John Murray, P.P. "I DON'T feel threatened by your friends," Tom said. Rosaleen stopped her ironing and looked around at her husband. "What do you mean?" she asked. Up to that moment, the kitchen conversation was typical of a thousand similar ones in housed up and down the country: two...

On July 22, 1963, Prime Minister L. B. Pearson announced the establishment of a Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism under the direction of André Laurendeau and A. Davidson Dunton. All three saw it as a grand inquest, to use Pearson's term, into the relationships between Canada's...

Eight statesmen, scores of aides, hundreds of press, and thousands of security personnel will all descend on Kananaskis, Alberta, in late June 2002. For the fourth time since 1976, but the first time in Western Canada, a Canadian prime minister will be hosting the G-8 leaders summit. The G-8 is...

By David Yates Before the medical malpractice trial of a Jefferson County doctor began on Monday, April 16, prospective jurors were warned the content of the trial -- complications following an episiotomy -- may turn even the strongest of stomachs. Apparently, the defense thought the details...

"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all" First Letter of Paul to Timothy 2:5 A sacrament is an outward efficacious sign instituted by Christ to give grace. Jesus Christ himself is the sacrament, as he...

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Liberals to introduce motion for Canada to withdraw from Afghan fighting by 2009 OTTAWA (CP) - The federal Liberals plan to introduce a motion today asking that Canadian troops be withdrawn from combat in Afghanistan on schedule in February 2009. But it'll have a tough time staying alive as...

By Andrea Hopkins BLACKSBURG, Virginia (Reuters) - Students expressed disgust and disbelief at photos and a rage-filled video diatribe sent to a television network by the gunman who massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech university. Half-a-dozen Virginia Tech students gathered silently around a...

What does a blind person see? The answer seems obvious, black. However, what happens if that person has been blind from birth. Since they cannot conceive of light can they conceive what it is to have the absence of light? This is similar to comparing the number zero with null, the absence of any...