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Arctic mosque opens its doors - 11/11/2010

OTTAWA- The Canadian Arctic's first mosque opened on Wednesday in Inuvik to serve as spiritual home to the area's fledgling Islamic community, a mosque committee member said by telephone from...

US granny allegedly tried to sell infant grandson - 11/07/2010

MIAMI- A Florida grandmother was held on a 100,000-dollar bond Saturday for trying to sell her eight-week-old grandson for cash in a plot concocted with her boyfriend, police said. Patty Bigbee,...

Michelle Obama dances in the home of Bollywood - 11/06/2010

MUMBAI- US First Lady Michelle Obama on Saturday danced barefoot to Bollywood tunes, as she visited a charity helping orphans and runaways in India's entertainment capital, Mumbai. The woman...

Saudi royalty buys Paris's Crillon hotel: sale source - 11/06/2010

PARIS- Paris's world-famous luxury Crillon hotel has been sold to Saudi investors linked to the royal family for around 250 million euros (355 million dollars), sources close to the sale told AFP on...

Palestinian PM opens E.Jerusalem school after Israel spat - 11/02/2010

JERUSALEM, Sara Hussein- Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad vowed Tuesday that east Jerusalem would be the capital of a Palestinian state as he opened a refurbished school there following a...

Britain sights royal nuptials after shooting party - 11/02/2010

LONDON- Britain was awash with speculation about an imminent royal engagement Tuesday after the parents of Prince William's girlfriend Kate Middleton were guests at his father's Scottish home....

Love not a trinket, pope tells young Catholics - 11/01/2010

VATICAN CITY- Pope Benedict XVI warned tens of thousands of young Catholics Saturday against treating love as a trinket, in a gathering in the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square. "You cannot and must...

Saudi women claim human pink ribbon world record - 10/29/2010

JEDDAH- In an unprecedented event in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia, Saudi women on Thursday claimed the world record for forming the largest-ever human pink ribbon at a rally to raise awareness...

Saudi women to attempt largest human ribbon - 10/27/2010

JEDDAH- Largely marginalised from public life, Saudi women will attempt to form the world's largest-ever human pink ribbon on Thursday to draw attention to breast cancer in the ultra-conservative...

Court orders police off Egypt campuses - 10/24/2010

CAIRO- An Egyptian court issued a final ruling on Saturday against the permanent presence of police on university campuses, saying they restricted academic independence. The administrative court...
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