Justin Trudeau asks Pope for apology
Source: MSN Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a request for Pope Francis: say sorry for the role of the Catholic Church in a Canadian school system where indigenous children […]
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‘Half a glass of wine every day’ increases breast cancer risk
Source: BBC By Philippa Roxby Health reporter, BBC News Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe link between alcohol and breast cancer is well-known but it’s just one of many risk factors Further […]
Anthony Foster: Tireless fighter against Catholic sex abuse
Source: BBC By Jay Savage Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionAnthony Foster’s advocacy helped launch an inquiry into institutionalised sexual abuse Clutching a photo of two smiling girls, Anthony Foster last year […]
Beautiful Gibberish: Fake Arabic in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Samuel H. Kress Collection,1939.1.255) In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, painters and sculptors often incorporated inscriptions into their work. Many of these were legible texts in Latin or other European languages, but sometimes painters reached east, borrowing the languages […]
Teen on Portland train: ‘They lost their lives because of me and my friend
Source: CNN By Madison Park, (CNN)As tears streamed down her cheeks, Destinee Mangum, 16, thanked the three strangers who intervened on a Portland light rail after a man hurled anti-Muslim […]
Bomber’s engineering student brother ‘knew all about his sibling’s vile plot in Manchester more than a month ago
Source: Mail Online By Arthur Martin and Stephen Wright for the Daily Mail The brother of the Manchester bomber knew he was going to carry out the atrocity more than […]
Lady Justice statue in Bangladesh is removed after Islamist objections
Source: The Guardian A statue of Lady Justice has been removed from the supreme court building in the Bangladeshi capital after objections from Islamist groups. The sculpture, by the local […]
Huntington’s disease: the pope steps in to help raise awareness
Source: The Guardian The pope embraces and blesses families with Huntington’s at the Vatican. Photograph: Pier Paolo Lisarelli BY Dara Mohammadi in Vatican City It was with the pomp and intrigue […]
British jihadis: who are the first generation of violent extremists?
Source: The Guardian Amid the bile, the hate and the prejudice, western Islamic militants fighting in Syria occasionally reveal a less brutal side. In interviews and on social media, they […]
The goods and commodities shaping global trade
Source: BBC The world has been transformed by international trade. Networks moving raw materials and goods around the globe have helped make our lives more convenient, more diverse and more […]
Amazon’s newest bricks and mortar store opens in New York
Source: BBC Amazon, in its third decade of business, dominates the world of online shopping. But an actual bricks and mortar Amazon store? That’s still as rare as an A-list […]
Climate change: Trump keeps world waiting on Paris deal
Source: BBC Donald Trump has said he will decide whether to pull out of a key climate change deal in the next week, having apparently shrugged off pressure from US […]
The tiny island of 200,000 couples
Source: BBC By Sarah Hewitt 29 May 2017 I leaned over the railing on the bow of the icebreaker, The Ocean Endeavour, just as the rocky cliff face of Prince […]
Paris mayor may ban black feminist Nyansapo festival
Source: BBC The mayor of Paris has called for a black feminist festival in the city to be banned on the grounds that it excludes white people. At the Nyansapo […]
Most in former Yugoslavia favor multicultural society, although some tensions remain
Source: Pew Research Center BY SCOTT GARDNER AND JONATHAN EVANS2 COMMENTS The former Yugoslavia spent much of the 1990s in turmoil, with a series of wars taking place amid the […]
Majorities in Europe, North America worried about Islamic extremis
Source: Pew Research Center BY JACOB POUSHTER2 COMMENTS Even before this week’s terrorist bombing at a pop concert in Manchester, England, people across Europe and in the U.S. and Canada […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers Harvard commencement full speech
Source: Youtube Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard to deliver the commencement speech to the class of 2017. Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in 2005 to found Facebook. Zuckerberg […]
Clinton speaks at Wellesley College Commencement (full speech)
Source: Youtube Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement address at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. on May 26. Source
British Airways: All flights cancelled amid IT crash
Source; BBC British Airways has cancelled all flights from Heathrow and Gatwick because of global computer problems. A “major IT system failure is causing very severe disruption to our flight […]
Why Are Black People Obsessed With The Bible That Was Used To Enslave Them?
Source: Modern Ghana BY Jean Gasho When I became a born-again Christian in 2008, I started studying the bible word for word. I would spend hours a day reading all commentaries […]