Society

Pope laments Church abuse of Canadian Indian children - 04/30/2009

VATICAN CITY, Catherine Jouault- Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday lamented that Canadian Indian children suffered abuse and were made to feel ashamed of their heritage at Catholic Church-run boarding...

Berlin religion referendum fails - 04/27/2009

BERLIN, Simon Sturdee - Ethics classes imposed after an "honour killing" in Berlin's Muslim minority will stay compulsory after supporters of religion lessons failed on Sunday to force a change via...

New cafe caters to fatigued Finns - 04/23/2009

HELSINKI - Fatigued Finns in the western city of Turku can now escape pressures at home or stress at work at a cafe catering to those who like to catnap. The brainchild of Turku's new 'nap' cafe...

Mexico breaks up child porn ring of 7, including priest - 04/23/2009

MEXICO CITY - Mexican police arrested seven people, including a Roman Catholic Priest, allegedly involved in a child porn ring that distributed 100,000 pictures and videos of children from around the...

US Supreme Court weighs schoolkid strip-searches - 04/21/2009

WASHINGTON, Virginie Montet - The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard the case of a teenager who said she was traumatized by a school strip-search after a classmate claimed she was carrying prescription...

Battling the anti-celluloid tide in Syria - 04/20/2009

DAMASCUS, Roueida Mabardi - Going to the pictures was, many years ago, a regular family outing in Syria. But with a drop in quality in films and with pirated DVDs flooding the market, Syrians now...

Prince Philip becomes Britain's longest-serving consort - 04/19/2009

LONDON - Prince Philip became Britain's longest-serving consort on Saturday, clocking up 57 years and 71 days in the role. Queen Elizabeth II's husband overtook the record set by queen Charlotte,...

Doctors aid rape by giving teens the pill: Swedish prosecutor - 04/17/2009

STOCKHOLM- Doctors in Sweden who prescribe the contraceptive pill to girls under 15 could face charges as an accessory to rape, a local prosecutor told AFP on Thursday. Mikael Hammarstrand, deputy...

Tokyo Disneyland launches Monsters, Inc. ride - 04/16/2009

TOKYO - Tokyo Disneyland Wednesday started up a new 100-million-dollar ride based on Walt Disney Pictures' computer animation blockbuster Monsters, Inc. produced by Pixar Animation Studios....

Two detained in Spain after sending drugs to wrong address - 04/15/2009

MADRID- Spanish police said Wednesday they had arrested two men who accidentally mailed a package containing three bars of hashish to the wrong address. One of the men went to a courier company in...
1 ... « 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 » ... 107

At a glance