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By KIM GAMEL The Iraqi president on Sunday sharply criticized the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war, saying it contained dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and were "an insult to the people of Iraq." President Jalal Talabani, a...

HOW IT CAME TO BE On November 27, 1830, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, appeared in a vision to Catherine Laboure, a novice in the Sisters of Charity convent in Paris, France. Our Lady manifested the pattern of a medal to Catherine. Mary promised that "All who wear it will receive great graces...

- Pope John Paul II Mark 16:15-16 15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 "He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned. For any man who takes the words of Christ seriously, it...

22 March 1615 St. Francis de Sales Sermon for the Third Sunday of Lent, given on March 22, 1615, concerning the usefulness and necessity of prayer, the operations of the understanding, meditation, petitions, contemplation, and the goal of prayer. St. Bernard--whose memory is dear to those...

A boy who almost had his head ripped from his body in a racing car accident has told Sky News he wants to get back behind the wheel. The impact from the crash lifted 12-year-old Christopher Stewart's skull from the top of his spine - an injury which normally results in death. Despite having...

By BEN TAYLOR, Crime Correspondent One of the Church of England's best known bishops has been mugged just yards from his front door. The Bishop of Southwark, the Right Reverend Tom Butler, was robbed of his mobile phone, his briefcase and spectacles as he walked home from a church event. His...

HAZEL MOLLISON TARA the Labrador cross liked nothing better than eating up the biscuit crumbs dropped by her owner's children - until the day disaster struck. The mischievous pooch sniffed out the remains of some shortbread which had fallen on to a paper shredder in her owner's Craigentinny...

COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Three teenagers have been fined 3,000 Danish kroner (400 euros, 530 dollars) by a Greenland court for lassoing a polar bear in a stunt they said they carried out because they were bored, the court said. Their conviction on appeal upheld a lower court's ruling from February...

By Theresa Agovino NEW YORK (AP) - Pfizer Inc. and other drug companies have long justified the high prices they charge for new medicines by citing the staggering sums they must spend in the search for breakthrough discoveries. But experts said this week that Pfizer's decision to abandon what...

By Daniel Squizzato HALIFAX (CP) - With Ottawa's recent decision to recognize the Quebecois as a nation, federal politicians have unwittingly breathed new life into the separatist movement - in Cape Breton. The idea of separating the rugged island from Nova Scotia - politically, that is - has...

By Keith Leslie TORONTO (CP) - Workers in Ontario will no longer be forced to retire from their jobs at age 65 and will have the right to continue working if they want under a law that takes effect Tuesday. The legislature passed the bill last December to scrap mandatory retirement, but gave...

LONDON (AP) - It's highly likely that terrorists will attempt to mount an attack in Britain over the holiday period, the country's top security official said Sunday. Home Secretary John Reid said the threat of an attack in Britain remains severe, but gave no details of possible plots. "The...

DANA FLAVELLE BUSINESS REPORTER Canadian families are richer than ever — on paper — but they're also carrying more debt, most of it in the form of mortgages on their homes, a new study shows. Canadian families' net worth — a measure of what they own compared to what they owe — has jumped 23.2...

By: Fr. Colum Wright P.P. IT WAS the Christmas pageant at school. A young lad called Jimmy had been given a very simple job to do. Jimmy was the Inn Keeper. He had to stand at the side of the stage and tell Mary and Joseph that there was no room for them at his house. Thhe whole class had...

Pope: Mary, Show Yourself Mother for Rome, Europe and the World In the annual tribute to the statue of Our Lady in Rome's Piazza di Spagna, Benedict XVI entrusts to Mary Europe's Christian roots, the marginalised and the excluded in a world where man is sacrificed "to other purposes and...

Doctors in north-western China have performed the world's second face transplant, claiming the procedure was "more complex" than the first such operation in France last year, state media said on Saturday. A surgical team at the Xijing hospital in Xi'an replaced two- thirds of the face of...

A boring phone conversation prompted an emergency alert when a German man nodded off while talking to his girlfriend, authorities said. The 42-year-old man in the southern city of Nuremberg was on the phone to his partner Sunday when he fell into a doze. The woman became alarmed when he...

Believing they had a botched burglary on their hands, police in Hayward, California, called to a house instead found a naked man wedged in its chimney, a police officer said Monday. "He didn't have a stitch on," Lt. Gary Branson of the Hayward Police Department said, referring to Michael...

BERLIN (AFP) - Severed heads of the Prophet Mohammed, Buddha, Jesus and Poseidon that were to have been used in a hotly disputed staging of a Mozart opera in Berlin this month have vanished, the opera house has said. "It seems the four heads are gone," Deutsche Oper spokesman Alexander Busche...

The following is a tribute to John that I wrote last year on this date, which was the 25th anniversary of his murder. I thought it worth repeating. Larry Kane The modern celebrity, sometimes a marginal talent, revels as he or she walks the red carpet, an invisible halo of glamour and self...