Pope Benedict XVI has denounced priests who have questioned church teaching regarding celibacy and ordaining women, saying they were defying his authority to try to impose their own ideas on the church. Benedict made the rare and explicit criticism from the altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in his homily on Holy Thursday, when priests recall […]
Around the globe, architects are exploring ways to make use of the rising water as oceans continue to rise along with other phenomenon like erratic flood, climate change and global warming. With the Dutch at the wheel, they have started projects in the unique aqua-architecture including a maritime housing estate, a floating prison facility and […]
AFA Foods, a US leading ground-beef processor, was forced to file for bankruptcy protection on Monday, blaming media of dubbing one of its products “pink slime.” The company said it was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection “given recent changes in the market for its ground beef products and the impact of media […]
John Henry Browne, the lawyer defending Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, the U.S. soldier accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians, claims U.S. authorities are hindering his ability his investigations about the incident. “When prosecutors don’t cooperate, it’s because they are concerned about the strength of their case,” said Browne at a press conference at his Seattle […]
Keith Olbermann, who has been recently fired by Current TV, was replaced by Eliot Spitzer, who is previously affiliated with CNN. The talk show host’s tenure at Current TV lasted only less than a year. He had been previously employed at MSNBC, where his “Countdown” program ran on television for eight years. In 2011, Olbermann […]
Pope Benedict and Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro had a brief meeting on Wednesday. The two world dominant figures talked for about 30 minutes at the Vatican embassy in Havana during the Pope’s three-day visit to Cuba, where he called for freedom and a more important role for the Catholic Church in the communist-led nation. […]
Views on Obama’s healthcare law which have long divided Democrats and Republicans across the country also played out in the courtroom. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared closely divided during tense arguments over President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, with conservative justices vigorously questioning the Obama administration’s lawyer on whether Congress had the unquestionable power […]
Seoul warned Monday that it would bring down parts of a North Korean rocket that violate South Korean territory, as worries about a long-range missile test regressing an international nuclear security summit escalates. North Korea has gained the attention of Northeast Asia since its previous announcement that it would send a satellite into space aboard […]
It is imperative that the U.S. economy grows more quickly to address the growing unemployment problem of the country, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman, said on Monday. Bernanke said the staggering decline of the country’s employment rate, which dropped rock bottom to 8.3 percent in February from 9.1 percent last summer, was “somewhat out of […]
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder, a capital offense that could lead to death penalty in the massacre of Afghan civilians, the U.S. military said. The 38-year-old soldier is accused of walking out of the U.S. military base with his 9mm pistol and M-4 rifle, […]
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