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Non-violence is not just tactical behaviour - it is "a personal way of being" based on love, Pope Benedict told pilgrims at yesterday's Angelus "Turning the other cheek" does not mean giving in to evil but reacting to evil with good, just as "loving one's enemies" means putting more love in a...

From 1969-1974, nobody had more Top 10 hits, moved more records, or sold more concert tickets than Three Dog Night. During this period, they were undoubtedly the most popular band in America: twenty-one consecutive Top 40 hits, eighteen straight Top 20s, eleven Top 10s, seven number 1s, seven...

By Dean Beeby OTTAWA (CP) - More than $70 million in federal money earmarked for the homeless was never spent, despite an urgent need across the country, says an internal study. The draft report, obtained under the Access to Information Act, found no satisfactory explanation for why...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A major league position player who scuffs or defaces a baseball would be ejected and receive an automatic 10-game suspension under changes approved Friday by the sport's playing rules committee. Previously, the penalty was to call the pitch a ball and warn the player. For...

BHOPAL, India (CNN) -- Police announced they uncovered a plastic bag stuffed with the skeletal remains of at least six newborns Sunday after searching the grounds of a Christian missionary hospital in the central Indian town of Ratlam. Director General of Police A.R. Pavar said they found the...

by JENNY HOPE Women who claim to be victims of 'date-rape' drugs such as Rohypnol have in fact been rendered helpless by binge-drinking, says a study by doctors. They found no evidence that any woman seeking help from emergency doctors because their drinks were allegedly spiked had...

A man who mistreated three children, turning their home into a "prison camp", has been jailed for three years. Alan Liddle, 48, who earlier changed his plea to guilty was sentenced at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Friday...

By Katie Johnson/Austin Daily HeraldAn 18-year-old Lyle High School student is facing two felony charges for allegedly lacing brownies with laxatives and distributing them at school, making staff and students sick. Collin Wayne Orth admitted to buying the laxatives and making the brownies at...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia is considering a ban on fast-food advertisements, a news report has said. Health Minister Chua Soi Lek said that his ministry will also consider placing a "sin tax" on fast-food chains, and a levy reserved for cigarettes and liquor in the mainly-Muslim nation, the...

LONDON (AFP) - The Football Association has dismissed out of hand a report that England manager Steve McLaren held talks with senior players about a recall for former captain David Beckham. A Sunday newspaper claimed McClaren is considering including the 31-year-old Real Madrid player in his...

By Pierre Lebrun TORONTO (CP) - John Pohl was born 13 years after Toronto's last Stanley Cup triumph but still got a kick out of meeting the '67 Maple Leafs before Saturday night's game. "It was really cool, they came to see us before the game in the dressing room," Pohl said. "It was...

By Anick Jesdanun NEW YORK (AP) - AOL chief financial officer Steve Swad will join a private-equity firm and become the latest senior manager to leave as the Internet company tries to transform itself into an online advertising conduit. In an internal memo obtained Friday, chief executive...

By EDITH M. LEDERER UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the U.N. food agency said. James Morris...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands (AP) -- A fast-thinking pilot with passengers in cahoots fooled a hijacker by braking hard upon landing, then accelerating to knock the man down. When he fell, flight attendants threw boiling water in his face, and about...

The Good Wife's Guide From Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have be thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men...

PARIS (AP) - French President Jacques Chirac inducted American actor-director Clint Eastwood into the Legion of Honour on Saturday, saying he represents "the best of Hollywood." The Oscar-winning director was named a knight in France's elite Legion of Honour. "France of course wants to...

The Ottawa Senators came from behind to edge the Atlanta Thrashers on Saturday afternoon for their fourth consecutive win. Dean McAmmond gave Ottawa its first lead of the game with under five minutes remaining, and Mike Fisher added an empty-net goal for a 5-3 win in front of the home fans...

By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - The media industry is clashing with YouTube over its proposal to offer anti-piracy tools only to companies that have distribution deals with the top online video-sharing service, media insiders said. YouTube, owned by Google Inc., plans to introduce...

BELGRADE (AFP) - A tiny Serbian hamlet on the border with Romania has launched an initiative to build a monument to Johnny Weissmuller, the late actor famed for his role as "Tarzan." Weissmuller, a five-time Olympic swimming gold-medallist, was born in 1904 in the village of Medja, in the Banat...

OTTAWA (CP) - Almost one in five violent incidents - including physical assault, sexual assault and robbery - occurred in the victim's workplace in 2004, a new study says. There were more than 356,000 violent incidents in the workplace in Canada and most - 71 per cent - were classified as...