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IT'S ALL ONE 'WAR' PBS SHOW TO ARGUE ALLIES AS BAD AS NAZIS US Marines led by a tank towards the last strongpoint of the Japanese resistance in WWII. Last updated: 3:42 am...

This summer may see first ice-free North Pole SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press...

by Charles S. LiMandri A friend recently asked: “How long do we have left as a society?” In answer to that question I informed her about an interesting and comprehensive study that a renowned British anthropologist, Joseph Unwin, PhD., presented to the British Psychological...

Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia A Saudi newspaper says religious police have arrested 21 allegedly homosexual men and confiscated large amounts of alcohol. Al-Medina daily says the Commission for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which employs the religious...

Traditionalists wait for Vatican ruling The Church of England Newspaper AN ANNOUNCEMENT on the Vatican 's relationship with the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) may be made following the July 16-Aug 3 Lambeth Conference, sources in Rome tell The Church of England Newspaper. Leaders of...

Thank you Hermann. nice to be conversing with you lot again;-)

Man jumps from plane with no parachute, dies Duanesburg, N.Y. (AP) -- A 29-year-old man leaped out of a plane at 10,000 feet with a camera but no parachute Saturday. His body was found next to a house with a damaged roof, police said. Sloan Carafello of Schenectady, who was observing on the...

Indian business school names Hindu monkey god as its chairman By The Associated Press LUCKNOW, India - He's a monkey, he's a god, and now he's a business school chairman. Hanuman, the popular Hindu monkey god revered for his strength and valor, has been named official chairman of the...

American Indian energy bar wins national appeal By Carson Walker, The Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - It's a 70-calorie energy bar made of two unusual ingredients and branded with a funny-sounding name. Who knew that combining buffalo and cranberries would be so sweet? But therein...

To Chinese, Canadian identity is a little fuzzy GEOFFREY YORK Globe and Mail BEIJING — Even after decades of close connections, the Chinese are still not quite sure what they think of Canada – although they vaguely like us. A new poll suggests that Canada lacks a strong identity in China...

Police locked down five Ottawa schools Thursday after receiving a report about a gunman on school property that turned out to be yet another hoax. It was latest batch of more than a dozen school lockdowns over the past month prompted by prank 911 calls. Such incidents are frustrating school...

By Dean Beeby, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - If your Via Rail train rolled into the station late this summer, you weren't alone. Internal reports from the Crown corporation show that crumbling infrastructure has conspired against train schedules across Canada this year, delivering passengers...

LAGOS (AFP) - Heavyily armed rebels seized a Briton, a Croat, a Russian and four Nigerians from an oil rig run after a three-hour gunbattle Sunday off southern Nigeria, industry and security sources said. The heavily armed rebels attacked the platform, owned by the Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, on...

Fr. C. Vaillancourt The name Catholic The Word Catholic comes from the Greek and means "universal".We know it to be the Church that Jesus founded on Peter the Rock. Jesus commissioned the apostles to proclaim the Gospel, to make disciples of all nations and to baptise in the name of the...

By David Lohr BANGKOK, Thailand (Cime Library) — New details are emerging about suspected pedophile Christopher Paul Neil, 32. Police now claim Neil was a regular poster to an online forum for teachers and that he posted more than 300 messages under the pseudonym "Peter Jackson." The owner of...

DOUGLASS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- A man facing child abuse charges used a combination of over-the-counter pain medication and carbon monoxide gas from his pickup truck to kill his new wife, his 9-year-old son and himself, authorities said Wednesday. A suicide note left by Oliver Wayne Braman, 46...

By Sam Wood INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Hours after being released from state prison, a Burlington County man barricaded himself inside a Mount Laurel townhouse Wednesday and held his 6-year-old daughter hostage with a kitchen knife to her throat, authorities said. This morning, he was back in jail...

By Jill Serjeant in Los Angeles FISH might not have eyelids, but they do sleep, and some suffer from insomnia, scientists reported today. California scientists studying sleep disorders in humans found some zebrafish, a common aquarium pet, have a mutant gene that disrupts their sleep patterns...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US Food and Drug Administration has decided to put more prominent warnings of potential hearing loss on impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. An FDA statement said the goal was "to display more prominently the potential risk of sudden hearing loss, and to guide...

By Silvia Aloisi ROME (Reuters) - Director Francis Ford Coppola says he has a lot in common with Dominic Matei, the protagonist of his first film in 10 years, "Youth Without Youth." That may sound surprising coming from the Oscar-winning maker of "Apocalypse Now" and "The Godfather" trilogy...