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08.11.2013 21:44
Pope Francis is shaking things up
again.
The pontiff with a penchant for
surprises is making new waves by
launching a survey of his flock on
issues facing modern families — from
gay marriage to divorce.
Very specific questions are being sent
to parishes around the globe in
preparation for next...
08.11.2013 21:42
The announcement that Pope Francis
will name new cardinals next year
sparked some fevered speculation that
he could bestow one of the red
birettas on a woman.
But the Vatican is doing its best to
dispel the rumors, saying that while it's
"theologically and theoretically"
possible, there won't be a...
08.11.2013 21:40
WASHINGTON -- The State Department
is offering a reward of up to $5 million
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of freed Mexican drug
lord Rafael Caro Quintero.
The State Department said Tuesday
that Caro Quintero kidnapped,
tortured and murdered U.S. Drug
Enforcement...
08.11.2013 21:36
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — One
October night in Tanzania’s
southernmost Mtwara region, a group
of men with their faces covered
pounded on the wooden door to
Zainab Muhamed’s home and told her
to open up. They would not say what
they wanted — but it was obvious.
Muhamed had just given birth to...
08.11.2013 21:34
PARIS - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
was poisoned to death in 2004 with
radioactive polonium, his widow Suha
said on Wednesday after receiving the
results of Swiss forensic tests on her
husband's corpse.
"We are revealing a real crime, a
political assassination," she told
Reuters after seeing...
08.11.2013 21:30
GENEVA - Israel rejected out of
hand on Friday a mooted deal
between world powers and Iran,
just as Secretary of State John
Kerry prepared to join nuclear
talks that aim to nail down an
interim agreement on the
decade-old standoff.
Western diplomats say that a
deal at the negotiations in
Geneva is...
08.11.2013 21:28
Mainz, GERMANY -- A German
health official has sparked
controversy by suggesting that
a "bottle of warm beer" can
sometimes be more effective
than psychotherapy.
Josef Hecken, chairman of
the body which decides what
treatments are offered by the
country's statutory health
system, was quoted as...
25.10.2013 16:21
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Raika Ferraz , a
curvy 21-year - old, has landed the title of
"Miss T Brazil ," following the country 's
second transsexual beauty pageant.
Ferraz , a long - haired , dark - eyed
brunette , saw off 27 rivals at the contest
late Monday in Rio to land the first prize
of a...
25.10.2013 16:11
The Simpsons , Simon Singh says, is
"arguably the most successful
television show in history". It may
also be the most allusive: it sometimes
seems as if every aspect of the show is
a knowing reference to something
else. And sometimes it seems as if
everything else is an unknowing
reference to The...
25.10.2013 16:05
Researchers have started to figure out
how DNA fine-tunes faces. In
experiments on mice, they have
identified thousands of regions in the
genome that act like dimmer switches
for the many genes that code for
facial features, such as the shape of
the skull or size of the nose.
Specific mutations in...
