Society

In 'forgotten' New York borough, storm anger boils - 11/03/2012

Her tears turned to anger as she and her husband spoke of how officials handled Sandy, which killed nearly 100 people in the eastern United States and knocked out power to millions after barreling...

Vatican says it regrets making Savile a papal knight - 10/29/2012

VATICAN CITY- The Vatican said Sunday it regretted conferring a papal knighthood on Jimmy Savile in 1990, but said there was no way to revoke the honour despite revelations of child sex crimes...

Hajj pilgrims stone devil as Eid begins - 10/27/2012

MINA, Saudi Arabia, Lynne Nahhas- Saudi Arabia's usually deserted Mina valley burst with life as more than three million Muslim pilgrims stoned pillars representing Satan on Friday, first day of the...

Laila Haidari, 'mother' of Afghan drug addicts - 10/06/2012

KABUL, Joris Fioriti- She has known terrible torment, but talks about it with a smile. Married off at 12 and a mother at 13, Afghan divorcee Laila Haidari now lives to help drug addicts in Kabul, who...

Egypt court frees Christian children over Islam insult - 10/05/2012

CAIRO- An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered the release of two Coptic Christian children accused of insulting Islam, a source in the prosecutor's office said. He told AFP that prosecutor Abdel...

Morocco says to bar Dutch abortion ship - 10/04/2012

It was due to land at Smir, on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Tangier. In the first official response to the planned visit, the health ministry on Wednesday...

Georg Gaenswein: Papal confidant turned star witness - 10/03/2012

VATICAN CITY, Ella Ide- Pope Benedict XVI's secretary Georg Gaenswein, who testified in the trial against the pontiff's butler on Tuesday, is a hugely influential but low-profile figure who holds the...

Somali educator of uprooted women wins UN refugee award - 09/18/2012

The former refugee, who returned to her war-torn homeland in 1995 and four years later created the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development for others uprooted by Somalia's persistent...

Trial of pope's butler to start September 29: Vatican - 09/17/2012

VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI's former butler and a Vatican computer technician will go on trial starting September 29 on charges of leaking secret papers that revealed fraud and intrigue in the...

Harvard probes mass exam cheating - 08/31/2012

NEW YORK- As many as 125 students at Harvard University are being probed for allegedly cheating in a final exam at the elite institution, administrators said Thursday. The official university site...
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