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By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have taken ordinary skin cells from a mouse and reprogrammed them to look and act like embryonic stem cells in a long-promised experiment that provides an alternative way to get the valued and controversial cells...

By Joan Vennochi, Globe Columnist | THE RED CARDINAL'S hat on its way to Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley sends a clear message to liberal Catholics who still hope the Catholic Church will shift their way: It isn't shifting. Company men always reap their rewards. Cardinal Bernard Law got a...

By Joan Bryden OTTAWA (CP) - Liberals are poised to derail Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cherished Senate reform agenda. Sources told The Canadian Press that Liberal members of the Senate's legal and constitutional affairs committee will recommend Wednesday shelving a bill that would...

HALIFAX (CP) - Bill Casey, the renegade Tory MP who defied Prime Minister Stephen Harper by voting against a federal budget bill, accused his Conservative colleagues Wednesday of exacting revenge through a series of dirty tricks. The veteran Nova Scotia MP, who was tossed out of the...

BLOOMFIELD, Conn. (AP) - A 15-year-old girl missing for nearly a year has been found in Connecticut, locked in a small hidden room under a staircase. Police say two people who live in the West Hartford home are under arrest. Bloomfield police say they found the girl alive in a room...

Fr. S. D. Harmon • Is man mortal or immortal? With his physical death does man fall into nothingness or does he survive death, passing into a different way of living, into a different stage of life? This is a problem that has agitated western thought from Plato until today, and...

A man is suing the maker of a health drink, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside. Christopher Woods said he had to be hospitalised because the erection would not go down. His lawsuit said he bought the health drink Boost Plus made by the...

Why bother with the Tums when you can just have a live rat: yummy A man in southeast China says 40 years of swallowing tree frogs and rats live has helped him avoid tummy ache. Jiang Musheng, a 66-year-old resident of Jiangxi province, suffered from frequent abdominal pains and coughing 20...

18-Year-Old Charged With Murder POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- An Iowa woman was charged with killing her newborn daughter by tossing her down a hotel trash chute from the seventh floor, police said. Ashley Truitt, 18, of Solon, Iowa, was being held on Monday without bond on one count of murder...

By Oleg Shchedrov MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said Russia would go back to its Cold War stance of aiming its missiles at Europe if Washington went ahead with a plan to build a missile defence shield near Russia's borders. In an interview released late on Sunday, Putin...

By Nazih Siddiq NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - Lebanese troops fought al Qaeda-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp and clashed with Islamists early on Monday as a 16-day conflict threatened to plunge Lebanon into long-term instability. Security sources said one Lebanese...

Rampant dumping in Thermal has gone on for years, and pupils breathe tainted air. Government can't yet stamp it out. By David Kelly Times Staff Writer THERMAL — A grim-faced George AuClair Jr. wandered his 25-acre patch of desert looking every...

Quote: Originally Posted by eh1eh Hey I thought you were Pagan dude, not Buddist. Sorry Sanctus.:icon_smile: With all respect towards the thread and sanctus's wish I will state here. I'm niether. born Catholic,did some TM meditation,joined the...

A MAN accused of raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl in a Perth shopping centre toilet is likely to face trial in October after pleading not guilty today. The naked body of Sofia Rodriguez-Urrutia-Shu was found on the floor of a toilet cubicle at Livingston Market Shopping...

By JOE MANDAK Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A woman who put her miscarried fetus in her freezer was ordered to stand trial for abuse of a corpse, a decision her attorney said contradicts established...

J. Edgar Hoover must be rollin' over in his bloomers: One of his FBI agents, a hardened criminal? That's the tale told by campus cops at Tucson's University of Arizona, where Agent Ryan Seese was arrested May 3, shortly after a cleaning lady observed him whackin’ off in the women's restroom of...

CBC News The "No" side that opposed sovereignty in Quebec's 1995 referendum illegally spent more than half a million dollars on its campaign, according to a report on the former Montreal-based lobby group Option Canada. The report, penned by retired Quebec judge Bernard Grenier and released...

ORCAS ISLAND, Wash. (AP) - Vandals burned dozens of small American flags that decorated veterans' graves for Memorial Day and replaced many of them with hand-drawn swastikas, authorities said Monday. Forty-six flag standards were found empty and another 33 flags were in charred tatters Sunday...

The infamous Charles Manson, whose led his cult in the 1969 murder of film star Sharon Tate and four other people at her Beverly Hills mansion, was denied parole Wednesday for the 11th time in his 38 years in prison, the California prison administration said. "The California Department of...

GUELPH, Ontario (AP) -- Police in Ontario are looking for a man who allegedly approached women and asked them to kick him in the groin. Three women reported similar incidents to police over the past two months, and two of the women reported the suspect was on a bicycle. None of the women...