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By Daisy Nguyen LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Norman Rockwell work stolen from suburban St. Louis more than three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg's art collection, the FBI announced. The painting, Rockwell's "Russian Schoolroom," was snatched during a late-night burglary at a gallery in...

Fri Mar 2, 7:05 PM LONDON (AP) - The moon will turn shades of amber and crimson Saturday night as it passes behind the Earth's shadow in the first total lunar eclipse in three years. The eclipse will be at least partly visible from Asia to the Americas, although those in...

Dan Bergin A Passionist priest who was the first person in South Africa to volunteer to take part in the country's HIV vaccine trial in 2003, is seriously ill in hospital after being shot by robbers on Wednesday night. Father Kieran Creagh, originally from Belfast, who works with Aids...

As the start of another new year rang in resolutions to quit smoking, health officials and other experts said public bans and restrictions are helping Canadians kick their addiction to nicotine. Calgary became one of the latest areas of the country to ban smoking in bars and restaurants...

Peace is not merely the absence of war. Nor can it be reduced solely to the maintenance of a balance of power between enemies. Nor is it brought about by dictatorship. Instead, it is rightly and appropriately called "an enterprise of justice" (Is. 32:7). Peace results from that harmony built...

Humanity is experiencing a new loneliness; it is not in the face of a hostile nature which it has taken centuries to subdue, but in an anonymous crowd which surrounds men and women and in which they feel themselves to be strangers. Urbanization, undoubtedly an irreversible stage in the...

Janis Lyn Joplin was born January 19, 1943 and died October 4, 1970. In between she led a triumphant and tumultuous life blessed by an innate talent to convey powerful emotion through heart-stomping rock-and-roll singing. Born and raised in Port Arthur, Texas, a small Southern petroleum industry...

GENEVA (AFP) - More than 50,000 people ordered tickets for Euro 2008 on the first day of sales, boosting demand to levels more than 10 times higher than the last European championship finals in 2004, organisers said Friday. Some 53,978 applications have been received since the first batch of...

TORONTO (CP) - A police investigation is underway into a suspected tampering of Christie Chewy Chunks Ahoy! cookies that are being recalled. Kraft Canada Inc. recently received several reports from customers who found small, sharp metal objects in select packages of cookies. The company...

Canadian Press MONTREAL - A Montreal woman who used fondue fuel to set her late boyfriend's penis on fire has been sentenced to four years in prison. The Crown says taking into account time already served, Andree Rene will have to remain incarcerated for another 30 months. Crown...

O Immaculata, Queen of Heaven and earth, refuge of sinners and our most loving Mother, God has will to entrust the entire order of mercy to you. I, N..., a repentant sinner, cast myself at your feet humbly imploring you to take me with all that I am and have, wholly to...

OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday. "I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate...

The teenage daughter of a woman charged with second-degree murder died as a result of strangulation, Calgary police said Wednesday. The body of Aminat Magomadova, 14, was found Monday in her family's Fay Road home in the city's southeast. Her 36-year-old mother, Aset Magomadova, is charged...

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - More than 60 nations launch the broadest scientific investigation yet of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday to chart polar regions on the front lines of global warming. About 3,000 children will build snowmen in Oslo...

By Ariel David ROME (AP) - The fans were pious. The players bound for glory. And the victory? A miracle. Priests and seminarians from several soccer-loving countries took to a field near the looming dome of St. Peter's Basilica Saturday for the first match of the Clericus Cup, a tournament...

Designer Julien Macdonald has declared war on animal lovers protesting against his use of fur in London Fashion Week. Some onlookers were shocked to see his autumn collection relied heavily on different types of fur - even to create an entire dress. But he remained unrepentant, saying...

Fr. C. G. Vaillancourt Heavenly Father, Almighty God. Father, Abba. I acknowledge that you have created me. I am so happy to know that you are my Father and I am your son / daughter. Powerful Lord, God and Saviour; I honour you, I am fulfilled coming before you. I humble myself...

By CRYSTAL HARMON TIMES WRITER Bay County Circuit Judge Joseph K. Sheeran ruled Friday that even though Michigan law does not explicitly define sex with a dead dog as a crime, charges against a Saginaw man will stand. Sheeran set a trial date of May 8 for the trial, when Ronald E. Kuch, 45, of...

By Joan Bryden OTTAWA (CP) - Opposition parties joined forces Tuesday to vote down the extension of two controversial anti-terrorism measures, ending an acrimonious political battle rife with accusations of dirty politics. But the debate over national security vs. civil liberties is sure to...

By Sara Bonisteel NEW YORK — Two artists stirred up some anger with McDonald's (MCD) last week after marketing a golden replica of a Mickey D's coffee stirrer once popular among drug users. McDonald's recently learned of the piece, titled "Cokespoon No. 2," and demanded that the company...