A suicide bomber at a police academy near Algiers claimed the lives of at least 44, most of whom were civilians.

The Christian community of India condemned the gruesome murder of Fr. Thomas Pandipally. Police have no clues as to perpetrators.

Before leaving Australia, Benedict XVI met privately with sex abuse victims. Previous to this the pope had expressed his ?profound sorrow? for the priests' ?betrayal? and had asked that those responsible be ?brought to justice?.

Villagers say they have seen pilotless surveillance planes in Pakistani airspace every day for the last two months

Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the world to help end gruesome warfare in Georgia and Ossetia and called upon their "shared Christian heritage."

Roman Catholics who support abortion rights should not receive Communion, says Archbishop Raymond Burke

Tourists and locals are being evacuated on the island of Cuba while Havana and neighboring areas are under threat of Hurricane Fay. Deaths reported on the island of Hispaniola.

Israeli defense officials said that Israel will do "everything possible" to prevent deployment of Russian S-300 anti-craft in Iran.

A granite boulder found in Antarctica may be evidence that parts of the icy continent once adjoined North America. The material shows similarity to the geology of California eastward all the way to New Brunswick.

Russian Patriarch Alexei supports the mass celebration of saints Fevronia and Pyotr in July and supplant St. Valentine's Day. It is hoped the July holy day will bolster Russia's birthrate.

In response to a government official, and priest, the Church in Uruguay affirmed that mere human need is no excuse for theft.

There is but one political party that is bent on attacking the very foundation of political freedoms, and America's success.

By reading Atkinson's "The Day of Battle", and Holland's "Italy's Sorrow", readers will be disabused of the idea that the WWII campaign in Italy was less significant than Normandy's D-Day.

Russian incursion into Georgia last week saw the use of rockets in urban areas by both sides

The researchers found that blacks were also less likely to have private insurance and more likely to live in poorer neighborhoods and have greater cardiovascular risk factors than whites.

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Ask anyone and they'll likely tell you that things in the media world are going downhill. It's a perception shared not just in relation to the media, but by everyone from old-school Marxists to certain conservative sectors of society.