Tim Tebow, the devout Christian quarterback of the Denver Broncos, has received tons of media attention and drawn the spotlight to the Bible passage John 3:16. The broadcast of the game Saturday against the New England Patriots included something unusual: a television commercial about that Bible verse. The commercial was well shot, artistically constructed, yet others say it […]
Monday January 16 2012, 4:31 AM EDT | Posted in
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Former international soccer goalkeeper Omar Ortiz was arrested on suspicion of working for a gang of kidnappers. The 35-year-old Ortiz admitted helping to pick out two rich victims for the kidnappers. The gang, who said they belonged to a drug interest group, sought an average of 1 million pesos ($73,000) per victim, of which Ortiz received a […]
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Evagelina Paredes filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago, accusing police officer Chris Collins of violating her privacy. A Chicago police officer allegedly turned a $132 speeding ticket into a dating opportunity when he later tracked down the female driver’s address in their motor-vehicle database and left a handwritten note on the windshield of her car asking her out on a […]
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Four bombs in mainly Shi’ite Muslim areas in Baghdad killed at least 29 people and wounded dozens of others on Thursday, police and hospital sources said. Nearly nine years after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, Iraq is still plagued by a deadly Sunni Muslim insurgency and Shi’ite militias From the Kadhimiya blasts killed16 and 36 wounded and […]
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South Korea reached out to rival North Korea on Thursday, around three weeks after the death of the North’s dictator Kim Jong-il, saying it wanted to reopen dialogue despite the North’s rancorous outbursts. “We are open to dialogue with North Korea,” Foreign Minister Kim Sung-Hwan told reporters. The outside world knows little about the secluded North, and both […]
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Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australia waters, a potential sign the carnivores were adapting to the climate change. The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was a unique discovery, said lead researcher Jess Morgan from the University of Queensland. He further added […]
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Mexican government officials are predicting a surge of visitors to the five southern states that comprise the country’s Maya region. The end of the world, it turns out, is marked by an economic boom. “Given the amount of interest we’re seeing from around the world, it’s generating global excitement as well,” said Yanick Dalhouse, the […]
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Minka Disbrow lived up to 100 years, long enough to meet the daughter she gave up for adoption after being raped at age 16. On a summer day in 1928 while picnicking with girls from a sewing class, Disbrow and her friend Elizabeth were jumped by three men as they went for a walk in their long […]
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China is planning to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years. According to a plan released it shows the country’s space program is gathering momentum. Its eventual goals are to have a space station and put an astronaut on the moon. It has made methodical development with its striving […]
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In Tokyo, Japan, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hits under the south Sea of Japan on Sunday, trembling buildings in the capital but causing no perceptible harm or tsunami. The quake struck close in the unpopulated island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Tokyo, its epicenter was about 370 kilometers (230 miles) below the sea, […]
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