Austin bombings: Suspect dead after detonating device, police say
Source: BBC News A suspect linked with a series of deadly parcel bombs targeting Austin, Texas, is dead after a major police operation, officials say. The suspect was killed after […]
Who Owns the Vikings? Pagans, Neo-Nazis and Advertisers Tussle Over Symbols
Source: The New York Times By RICHARD MARTYN-HEMPHILL and HENRIK PRYSER LIBELL Photo A worshiper holding Thor’s hammer at a pagan ceremony in Sweden conducted by the Nordic Asa Community. CreditJasper Juinen for The […]
Public school lobby criticises Labor’s ‘arbitrary’ $250m for Catholic schools
Source: The Guardian BY Paul Karp A public school lobby group has blasted Labor for pledging to restore $250m of funding to Catholic schools, labelling it an arbitrary and partisan move that […]
Brazil: Bishop arrested on corruption charges
Source: BBC News Police have detained the Roman Catholic bishop of the city of Formosa in central Brazil, on charges of corruption. Bishop José Ronaldo and six other priests are […]
The Saudis Take On Radical Islam
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Adel Al-Toraifi March 19, 2018 6:09 p.m. ET Riyadh, Saudi Arabia The year 1979 was a watershed for the Middle East. Iranian revolutionaries overthrew […]
Will legislature make an annual day of prayer at schools state law?
Source: LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER BY VALARIE HONEYCUTT SPEARS An annual day of prayer for Kentucky’s students at school would become state law under a bill passed Thursday in the House. But Amber […]
Belgium ends Saudi mosque lease, citing ‘foreign interference’ and extremism
Source: The Washington Post By Michael Birnbaum and Quentin Ariès March 19 Email the author BRUSSELS — The Belgian government has decided to terminate the long-term lease of the country’s largest and oldest mosque to the […]
Ban on Face Veils at Indonesian University Lasted Just a Week
Source: The New York Times By JOE COCHRANE JAKARTA, Indonesia — When the head of a prominent Islamic university in Indonesia banned the face-concealing niqab headdress on campus this month, calling […]
Richard Dawkins to give away copies of The God Delusion in Islamic countries
Source: The Guardian By Alison Flood Author and the Centre for Inquiry planning free ebook versions of his books in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Indonesian following a ‘stirring towards atheism’ in […]
Does the pope own the Vatican brand? Spain, so far, says yes
Source: Associated Press By ARITZ PARRA MADRID (AP) — A Vatican crackdown on the commercial use of its name and official emblems has encountered resistance from a Spanish website that […]
Seeking immortality: Aubrey de Grey at TEDxSalford
Source: Youtube TED Talks Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease — and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he […]
The World’s Last Male Northern White Rhino Has Died
Source: Time By ELI MEIXLER March 20, 2018 The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, according to a Kenyan wildlife conservatory and anti-poaching NGO WildAid, spelling the likely extinction for […]
Stem Cell Treatment Could Be a Game-Changer for People With MS
Source: Time By ALICE PARK March 19, 2018 TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. Researchers reported encouraging results for a stem cell transplant for multiple sclerosis (MS) that some doctors and […]
Xi Jinping warns any attempt to split China is ‘doomed to fail’
Source: BBC News Chinese President Xi Jinping has delivered a fervently nationalistic closing speech to parliament, painting China as the rising global power. Mr Xi said “achieving total unity” was […]
Texas explosions: Trump vows to catch ‘sick’ bomber
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has said that a series of deadly bombings in Texas were carried out by “sick people”, and also pledged justice for the victims. […]
Self-driving Uber car kills Arizona woman crossing street
Source: MSN News Sydney Maki and Alexandria Sage An Uber self-driving car hit and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona, police said on Monday, marking the first fatality […]
The Real Reason You Procrastinate
Source: Time By ANDREW SANTELLA March 19, 2018 IDEAS Andrew Santella is the author of Soon: An Overdue History of Procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to You and Me. This article would […]
Canada Struggles as It Opens Its Arms to Victims of ISIS
Source: The Washington Post By CATHERINE PORTER CALGARY, Alberta — As leader of one of Canada’s largest refugee agencies, Fariborz Birjandian, a refugee himself, has years of experience welcoming the world’s […]
After Documenting Nazi Crimes, A French Priest Exposes ISIS Attacks On Yazidis
Source: NPR BY ELEANOR BEARDSLEY Patrick Desbois, a Roman Catholic priest, has spent the last 15 years investigating and uncovering the details of Nazi massacres across Eastern Europe and Russia, crimes […]
Cardinal Keith O’Brien dies after fall
Source: BBC News Cardinal Keith O’Brien, formerly the Catholic Church’s most senior cleric in Britain, has died at the age of 80. The cardinal, who resigned as Archbishop of St Andrews […]