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Harper leaves for G8 summit, expected to be dominated by environment issues OTTAWA (CP) - It's a travel day for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The prime minister left Ottawa on an early-morning flight for Germany, where he...

By David Rising ROSTOCK, Germany (AP) - Protesters with black hoods and bandanas covering their faces showered police with rocks and beer bottles Saturday, before the heavily armoured officers drove them back with water cannon and tear gas during a rally against an upcoming Group of Eight...

Vatican (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI emphasized the importance of sacramental confession at a March 16 meeting of participants in a conference organized by the Apostolic Penitentiary.The sacrament of...

Sean Penn Imagine, for a moment, it's 1939. A prominent Jewish actor makes the following statement. "Let me tell you something about Germany, because I've been there and you haven't. Germany is a great country. A great country. Does it have its haters? You bet. Just like the United States has...

At least 29 migrants have died after smugglers forced them at knife-point to jump into the sea off the coast of Yemen, the UN refugee agency has said. The UNHCR said another 71 people - from Somalia and Ethiopia - were missing after Thursday's...

Scott Norris for National Geographic News What exactly went on between gorillas and early humans? No one knows for sure, but scientists say one thing, at least, seems certain: The big apes gave us pubic lice. Researchers made the uncomfortable discovery during a DNA study reconstructing the...

Roxanne Khamsi A simple formula can predict how people would want to be treated in dire medical situations as accurately as their loved ones can, say researchers. The finding suggests that computers may one day help doctors and those acting as surrogate decision-makers to better estimate the...

By Peter J. Smith GILLETTE, Wyoming, March 12, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An activist lesbian couple “married” in Canada may no longer receive Holy Communion in the Catholic Church, after having been told by their pastor that their homosexual behavior and advocacy of same-sex unions prevent...

By Maria Babbage CFB TRENTON, Ont. (CP) - Family members wept and clutched each other for moral and emotional support Friday at a heart-wrenching repatriatrion ceremony marking the return to Canada of the latest young soldier to lose his life in Afghanistan. A CC-150 Polaris aircraft bearing...

The Associated Press Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday there is no evidence Japan coerced Asian women into working as sex slaves during the Second World War, backtracking from a landmark 1993 government statement acknowledging that tens of thousands of women were forced into...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Angelina Jolie has filed papers to adopt a Vietnamese child, the country's top adoption official said Friday. A U.S. adoption agency representing Jolie filed the papers at Vietnam's International Adoption Agency, said Vu Duc Long, the agency's director. "She just filed...

By Ben Fox NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Anna Nicole Smith, her coffin covered with a rhinestone-studded blanket and her portrait on the church altar, was mourned by family and friends Friday during a funeral service before a white hearse took her body to the cemetery. The mahogany coffin was...

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The missing clock didn't stop postal customer Al Cunningham from noticing the amount of time spent waiting for service. "It's always long here," said Cunningham, 49, an insurance adjuster and former postal employee who was standing in line at the Watson Post Office in...

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - More than a dozen Western tourists are feared kidnapped in northern Ethiopia with the French foreign minister saying on Friday that he thought French nationals are among the group. An Ethiopian tour operator told AFP on Friday that 11 French and three British nationals on...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A man who can no longer feed himself said an uncooked chicken burrito put him in a wheelchair. Roger Anderson said he ate the burrito at a Moe's Southwest Grill in Land O' Lakes in September and became sick with stomach cramps, diarrhea and joint pains. Anderson's...

12 PAINLESS WAYS TO EVANGELIZE Okay, so you want to engage in evangelization—but you're not quite sure what to do, or you're a little shy, or you don't have much time, and you certainly don't have much money. What can you do that will make a difference?<P> Here are 12 Painless Ways to...

Wed Feb 28, 3:41 AM TANK, Pakistan (Reuters) - Militants in Pakistan beheaded an Afghan cleric they accused of spying for U.S. forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday. The murdered cleric, Akhtar Usmani, 30, had spoken out against militancy in a...

Wed Feb 28, 5:12 AM By Desiwaar Heita WINDHOEK (Reuters) - Rights activists in Namibia on Wednesday shouted "tyrant" and waved placards condemning Robert Mugabe's controversial land reforms in a protest to mark the Zimbabwean leader's visit to the southwestern African nation...

First local McDonald's owner had lost Catholics on Fridays BY PAUL CLARK Forty-five years ago, Lou Groen's career began its turn from rags to fishes. Groen, who began his working life as a homeless teenager in the 1930s, was casting about in 1962 for a way to save his floundering hamburger...

HOLLYWOOD (AFP) - Politician-environmentalist Al Gore made a mock attempt at announcing his candidacy for the US presidency at Sunday's Oscars but was yanked from the stage before he could get the words out. Queried on stage by actor Leonardo DiCaprio whether he had a "major, major announcement...