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By Allan Dowd NEW WESTMINSTER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Accused serial killer Robert "Willie" Pickton butchered his victims after killing them and told an undercover police officer that he had killed 49 women and wanted to kill one more, prosecutors told a Canadian court on Monday. On the...

Her brown eyes are sparkling with life. But while seven-year-old Chloe Harrison looks a picture of health now, not long ago it was a desperately different story. She was hit by cancer three times in two years and was not expected to survive – but has astounded doctors with her fighting spirit...

George Bush An Australian has been thrown off a flight for wearing a T-shirt branding George Bush a terrorist. Allen Jasson was barred from a Qantas flight from Melbourne to London for his apparently offensive choice of clothing. The T-shirt bore a pictured of US President Bush and the slogan...

The Associated Press ORLANDO -- A woman was charged with aggravated child abuse for putting her baby in an oven, turning it on and leaving her apartment after fighting with her boyfriend, police said. The oven had not gotten hot enough to burn the child, whose age was not immediately available...

by Michael E. Nielsen, PhD Many people expect religion to bring them happiness. Does this actually seem to be the case? Are religious people happier than nonreligious people? And if so, why might this be? Researchers have been intrigued by such questions. Most studies have simply asked people...

Biography by Steve Huey While the Guess Who did have several hits in America, they were superstars in their home country of Canada during the 1960s and early '70s. The band grew out of vocalist/guitarist Chad Allan (born Allan Kobel) and guitarist Randy Bachman's Winnipeg-based group Chad...

Sonny & Cher proved one of the magical musical combinations of the mid '60s and one of the better rock-influenced MOR acts of the early '70s, their wisecracking repartee providing counterpoint to a series of adoring hit duets. Salvatore "Sonny" Bono (b. Feb. 16, 1935) started out at Los...

A Des Moines woman details her idling on the job on her employer's computer. A Des Moines hotel worker has been fired for using her employer's computer to keep a massive, detailed journal cataloging her efforts to avoid work. State records indicate that Emmalee Bauer, 25...

Saint Peter Julian Eymard Our Father Thy Will be done Our Father Who are in Heaven in the heaven of the Eucharist, to You Who are seated on the throne of grace and love, be benediction, and honour, and power and glory for ever and ever! Hallowed be Your Name first in ourselves, through...

Saint Albert the Great I adore You, O Precious Blood of Jesus, flower of creation, fruit of virginity, ineffable instrument of the Holy Spirit, and I rejoice at the thought that You came from the drop of virginal blood on which eternal Love impressed its movement; You were assumed by the Word...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - The duck would not die. Wildlife officials said the feathered Lazarus had been shot by a hunter and put into his refrigerator for two days. That's when the hunter's wife opened the door and the duck lifted his head, giving her a scare. The man's wife "was going to...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening U.S. President George W. Bush. The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday's...

MONTREAL (CP) - Police negotiated with an armed man Sunday night after he barricaded himself inside his apartment with members of his family. Police say the 47-year-old man had as many as three people with him in his southwest Montreal home. The man was involved in a disagreement with one of...

By Colin Perkel TORONTO (CP) - Canadian universities, bulging at the seams with students and worried about finding faculty to teach them, could find themselves with the opposite problem in a few years, says a noted demography expert: empty classes and a glut of professors. And it won't be as...

This thread, after reading through it, has made me quite hungry! For me, I love bacon and cheese toasted sandwiches, slopped with lots of mayonaisse. Also a huge favourite is ice cream, any flavour but chocolate. I do not care for chocolate at all in any variety except chocolate bars.

By Chris Buckley BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing insisted Friday it was opposed to an arms race in space after Japan and Britain joined a chorus of concern over a satellite-killing missile test by China -- the first known experiment of its type in more than 20 years. The United States says China...

The Rev. Fr. D. S. Bosworth, Ph. D. Deism is the belief in a supreme being, who remains unknowable and untouchable. God is viewed as merely the “first cause” and underlying principle of rationality in the universe. Deists believe in a god of nature -- a noninterventionist creator -- who permits...

Carol Bertoria, Ph.D. Moral relativism is the view that ethical standards, morality, and positions of right or wrong are culturally based and therefore subject to a person's individual choice. We can all decide what is right for ourselves. You decide what's right for you, and I'll decide what's...

Just how and when do you step in to help your aging—and so independent—parents? BY DOUGLAS TODD My mother and stepfather were married for 30 years. They lived on a steep hillside on the North Shore of Vancouver, surrounded by evergreens and views of the Coast Mountains. When they retired, they...

Riot police on standby as OPP takes no "nonsense" stance at Ont. land occupation By Gregory Bonnell CALEDONIA, Ont. (CP) - Provincial police officers holding the middle ground in a standoff between aboriginals occupying a former housing development and non-aboriginal protesters turned their...