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Zimbabwe's shortages, inflation blamed for rise in illegal abortions HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The corpses of at least 20 newborn babies and fetuses are found each week in the sewers of Zimbabwe's capital, some having been flushed down toilets, Harare city authorities said, according to state...

Stalin museum is 'an insult to millions sent to death in Gulag' By Andrew Osborn in Moscow Published: 18 February 2006 The imminent opening of a museum devoted to Josef Stalin has stirred outrage among relatives of the millions he persecuted and has prompted claims that Stalinism is on the...

Poll reveals 40pc of Muslims want sharia law in UK By Patrick Hennessy and Melissa Kite (Filed: 19/02/2006) Four out of 10 British Muslims want sharia law introduced into parts of the country, a survey reveals today. The ICM opinion poll also indicates that a fifth have sympathy with the...

In North Korea, it's Western chumps to the rescue. BY CLAUDIA ROSETT Sunday, February 19, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST It's bad enough that North Korea's Kim Jong Il is starving his people while building nuclear bombs. But why are we helping him? In theory, we're not. But the U.S. has been by far...

Past as Prologue Russia: Moscow presents itself as the new 'middleman' in the Middle East. But its role may actually be that of spoiler. By Owen Matthews Newsweek International Feb. 27, 2006 issue - Once, not so long ago, Europe saw itself as the Middle East's honest broker, poised between a...

California woman, 62, gives birth to 12th child Healthy six-pound, nine-ounce boy born through in-vitro fertilization REDDING, Calif. - A 62-year-old great-grandmother has become one of the oldest women in the world to successfully give birth. The healthy six-pound, nine-ounce baby boy is the...

You can watch the program online by clicking on the link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/torture/ Is torture ever justified in a post-9/11 world? FRONTLINE gathered a group of legal thinkers to answer this question. Several of them had studied the torture question together for a joint...

Canada to boost troops in Afghanistan Additional 1,300 soldiers headed to dangerous region as Americans return TORONTO - When Glyn Berry, a Canadian diplomat, was killed by a suicide bomber last month in Afghanistan, many here saw it as a sign of more bloodshed to come. Canada, which has...

Bin Laden vows never to be captured alive Al-Qaida leader declares U.S. has resorted to Saddam’s ‘barbaric’ tactics CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden promised never to be captured alive and declared the United States had resorted to the same “barbaric” tactics used by Saddam Hussein, according to...

VIENNA, Austria - A right-wing British historian goes on trial Monday on charges of denying the Holocaust occurred — a crime punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment in this country once run by the Nazis. The trial of David Irving opens amid fresh — and fierce — debate over freedom of...

For the past 10 years, carbon dioxide (CO2) has gotten a bad rap. Despite the fact that 95 percent of the CO2 emitted each year is produced by nature (see Figure I), environmentalists started referring to CO2 as a pollutant in 1988 after some scientists claimed that the 30 percent rise in...

George Megalogenis February 20, 2006 JOHN Howard has strongly criticised aspects of Muslim culture, warning they pose an unprecedented challenge for Australia's immigration program. While he remained confident that the overwhelming majority of Muslims would be successfully integrated, the...

Cultures collide: Muslim immigrants will be expelled from Europe unless they reverse the growing perception of them as a social threat Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post Published: Friday, February 17, 2006 The Muslims refused to assimilate. They were expelled. This was the story in Europe 400...

ROME -- Italy's highest court ruled yesterday a man who raped the 14-year-old daughter of his girlfriend can seek to have his sentenced reduced on the mitigating circumstances that the girl was already sexually active, news reports said. The ruling provoked an outcry across Italy, was...

Prostitutes launch outreach to combat negative stereotypes of sex industry AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam’s famed red-light district held its first ever “open day” on Saturday as its peep-shows and brothels gave crowds of wide-eyed visitors free entry to help shed the area’s increasingly negative...

Move to profit from Benedict’s words draws mixed reactions from publishers VATICAN CITY - Royalties for Pope Benedict XVI’s writings and speeches? The Italian publishing world is aghast. The demand by the Vatican to respect copyright on the pontiff’s writings and pay for their use has...

Chavez tells Rice: ‘Don’t mess with me, girl’Leader responds to secretary of state calling Venezuela a ‘problem’ CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Sunday warned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice not to “mess with” him days after Rice described Venezuela as a menace to...

Several people injured as protesters of cartoons unsuccessfully storm gates JAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, smashing the windows of a guard post but failing to push through the gates. Several...

By PAUL GARWOOD, Associated Press Writer BASRA, Iraq - Glistening in Iraq's barren southern salt plains, a natural gas-driven power station has come on line, generating sorely needed electricity for war-weary Iraqis and demonstrating that much-maligned U.S.-led reconstruction efforts are...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has warned he could cut off oil exports to the United States if Washington goes "over the line" in what he has said are attempts to destabilize his left-leaning government. Chavez made his threat Friday, a day after U.S. Secretary of...