Society

China drug centres worsen plight of addicts: rights group - 01/07/2010

BEIJING - China's drug detention centres are rife with human rights violations including forced labour and other abusive treatment despite a new law meant to fix the system, Human Rights Watch said...

Egypt court upholds niqab ban - 01/04/2010

CAIRO - An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld a ruling by the education ministry to ban women from wearing the full face veil in university examination halls, judicial sources said. The ministry took...

Latino beat sweeps Ethiopian capital - 01/02/2010

ADDIS ABABA, Aaron Maasho - It's a far cry from Ethiopia's traditional Eskista shoulder shake dance, but Salsa is sweeping Addis Ababa with aficionados twirling and spinning their way across the...

Deaths that marked 2009 - 12/29/2009

PARIS - Ten deaths that marked 2009: HELEN SUZMAN (died January 1, aged 91) Suzman was for decades the lone voice of white dissent in South Africa's parliament against apartheid rule. She...

Pope's attacker can expect forgiveness: Vatican - 12/26/2009

VATICAN CITY, Gina Doggett - A serene Pope Benedict XVI gave a Christmas Day message of tolerance on Friday just hours after being bundled to the ground by a woman who surged past guards to assault...

Woman rushes at pope, pulls him down ahead of Christmas mass - 12/25/2009

VATICAN CITY, Gina Doggett - Papal bodyguards overpowered a woman who rushed at Pope Benedict XVI, yanking him to the ground Thursday as he entered St Peter's Basilica to celebrate Christmas Eve...

Miracle means Australian nun can be nation's first saint - 12/20/2009

SYDNEY - An Australian nun who died 100 years ago is on the way to becoming the nation's first saint, after Pope Benedict XVI confirmed she miraculously cured a woman of cancer, Catholic officials...

Brazil granny, 100, to take parachute plunge for Christmas - 12/19/2009

RIO DE JANEIRO - A 100-year-old Brazilian grandmother will experience gravity in a whole new way this Christmas when she takes the plunge out of an airplane to become the world's oldest parachuter,...

Poll underscores challenges to Saudi women grads - 12/17/2009

RIYADH, Paul Handley - Saudi female university students are ambitious and eager for job opportunities but their more conservative male counterparts are likely to put barriers in their way, a...

No need to split twins for good grades: study - 12/15/2009

PARIS - Whether or not twins are separated at school, a subject of debate that is often a dilemma for parents, has no affect on their grades, according to a Dutch study published Tuesday. A team...
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