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Fr. D. Shaheen Take no account of external things: seek strenuously after those blessings which are to be found within THE natural man, the old or fallen man, is called the outward man on account of his natural bias towards objects of sense. The spiritual man, the new man, or the man...

Dan Bergin Nearly half (around 46 per cent) of households in Gaza and the West Bank are malnourished, according to a UN report on the impact of conflict and the global boycott of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. The draft report, jointly produced by the UN's World Food Programme and...

TOKYO (AFP) - For people who want to ensure their words last for their progeny, Japanese scientists have found a way to literally put a message into genes. A research team said this week it had developed a technology for storing digital data in the DNA of bacteria, which unlike most living...

WINDSOR, Ont. (CP) - Everybody likes to think they have the cutest baby, but a Canadian woman now has extra bragging rights after her eight-month-old daughter won the "Live with Regis and Kelly" Beautiful Baby Search on Friday. Melody Dancel's baby, Cameron, beat more than 150,000 entries on...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- What would happen if an astronaut became mentally unstable in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard? That was the question after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested this month on charges...

Who cares..the Italians perfected it into what we know as Lasagna today....and it is one of my favourite dishes so that is enough for me:-)

Born Herbert Khaury on April 12th, 1933, Tiny Tim began his music career as "Larry Love" in the early '50s, touring clubs and playing his ukulele to generally disinterested audiences. It wasn't until the mid-1960's that Tim became a household name when he first appeared on the TV show, "Rowan...

BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) -- A woman was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with parole for killing her 3-year-old developmentally disabled foster son by binding him in blankets and tape and leaving him inside a closet for a weekend. A day earlier, jurors convicted Liz Carroll, 30, of murder and...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Saturday has denied a report in a British daily that it is seeking permission from the United States to fly its bombers over Iraq to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. "There has never been such a request, it is obvious," Deputy Defence Minister Ephraim Sneh told...

SANTA FE (AP) - Santa Fe police say an Ash Wednesday service at the cathedral was disrupted by pornographic messages from three CD players duct-taped to the underside of pews. Santa Fe police Captain Gary Johnson says the CD players had been set to go off at 12:20 pm Wednesday during Mass in the...

An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. Abdel Kareem Soliman's trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt. He had used his web log to criticise the country's top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university...

By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Chimpanzees living in the West African savannah have been observed fashioning deadly spears from sticks and using the tools to hunt small mammals -- the first routine production of deadly weapons ever observed in animals other than humans. The...

A German brother and sister who live as a couple and have four children are going to Germany's highest court to try to legalise their relationship. The 29-year-old brother has already spent more than two years in prison for sleeping with his sister, and could be incarcerated again, his lawyer...

TRENTON, New Jersey (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union is supporting a high school student who objected when his teacher made religious statements, including allegedly telling students that those who do not believe Jesus died for their sins belong in hell. The school district penalized...

Two circus clowns have been shot dead during a performance in the eastern Colombian city of Cucuta, police say. The attacker jumped into the arena and fired before fleeing, police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Efe news...

I adore ice-cream. It is the favourite junk food in our home. the only flavour I personally do not care for is chocolate. I'm odd here, because I do not care for chocolate anything, outside of chocolate bars.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A bill modifying Hungary's penal code could allow pornographic material involving 14- to 17-year-olds to be made and kept for personal use. The Justice Ministry said the draft proposal, presented last month by Hungarian Justice Minister Jozsef Petretei, was in line with...

The Carpenters story is one that is filled with the joy of overwhelming success and the sadness of a life cut short. With their light, airy melodies and meticulously crafted, clean arrangements, the Carpenters stood in direct contrast with the excessive, gaudy pop/rock of the '70s, yet they...

By Associated Press MALCOLM RITTER NEW YORK Researchers are trying to find ways to regrow fingers — and someday, even limbs — with tricks that sound like magic spells from a Harry Potter novel. There's the guy...

By John Zarrella and Patrick Oppmann CNN MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The minister has the number 666 tattooed on his arm. But Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is not your typical minister. De Jesus, or "Daddy" as his thousands of followers call him, does not merely pray to God: He says he is God. "The...