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Pope Church Must Help Poorest Not Dissect Theology
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heartrdquo; that the death of a homeless person is not news. Francis, who has made straight talk and simplicity a hallmark of his papacy, made his unscripted comments in answers to questions by four people at ...
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Top Pakistani Politician Gunned Down in Karachi
A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ...
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McDowell defends slip about McIlroys leaving Nike deal agency
Northern Irish golfer Graeme McDowell has defended his slip about World No.2 Rory McIlroy leaving his management company, saying that although the move is not yet confirmed, it is already being much talked about in the golfing world. For weeks there have been whispers at big events in America that McIlroy is about to leave Horizon, the Dublin-based management agency that negotiated his 20 ...
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World Record US lottery prize won in Florida
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon voiced concern on Sunday over North Korea's launch of short-range missiles, urging Pyonyang to refrain from further launches and return to stalled nuclear talks with world ...
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McDowell claims World Match Play title
19 May 2013 Graeme McDowell has become the first Irish winner of the Volvo World Match Play Championship with a hard-fought victory over Thongchai Jaidee in ...
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World Touring Car qualifying descends into go-slow farce – video
Watch the conclusion of the qualifying session for the World Touring Car championship in Salzburg, as drivers get down to speeds of 20mph. The desire to be in second place - and drive in the slipstream - led to an incredible display of drivers going in front before slowing down in the hope that someone would pass them, with the cars behind in turn also slowing down. A total of 12 drivers were ...
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South Africa finds collusion manipulation in Gupta scandal
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister on Sunday accused an Indian High Commission official and some South Africans of colluding to obtain permission for a plane chartered by a rich family close to President Jacob Zuma to use an air force base to ...
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Obama approval rating holds steady in CNN poll
Barack Obama did not seem to do any serious damage to his popularity among U.S. voters, a CNN poll released Sunday concluded. The CNN/ORC International poll -- conducted Friday and Saturday -- pegged the president's job approval at 53 percent, slightly better than the 51 percent approval level the same poll found in early April. "That two-point difference is well within the ...
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Russian film director Alexei Balabanov dies at 54
Alexei Balabanov, a prominent Russian film director in the 1990s and 2000s, has died in a village near St. Petersburg, a colleague said. He was 54. No information about the cause of his death was released, The Hollywood Reporter said. Balabanov made his first film, "Happy Days," in 1991. His breakthrough film, the 1997 crime drama "Brother," won the main prize at ...
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World Saudi woman reaches Everest summit
Saudi Arabia - a conservative Muslim country where women's rights are very restricted - she had to break a lot of barriers to achieve her goal, her climb team said. A biography on the expedition website said convincing Ms Moharrak's family to agree to her climb "was as great a challenge as the mountain itself", though they fully support her now. "I really don't care ...
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Mice return from a month in space
Vladimir Sychov, deputy director of the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, said it was the first time that animals had spent so much time in space on their ...
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Paul Libya like Iraq
The guarding of U.S. diplomatic outposts like the consulate Benghazi in Libya should be treated like Baghdad with more military force, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Kentucky Republican said his focus isn't on the Benghazi talking points, but on not guarding the outpost more heavily. That decision was a "tragic error," he ...
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Father slit childrens throats
The recently divorced man is alleged to have killed the youngsters - aged five and ten - after he was entrusted with them for the first time since separating from his wife.Their bodies were discovered in a flat in a suburb of Lyon.The man, who has not been named, was taken into custody after his former wife arrived at the building to find him on the stairs wearing blood-stained clothes, ...
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MN State Rep Calls Climate Change ‘Complete United Nations Fraud And Lie’
Rep. Glenn Gruenhagen On Wednesday night, Minnesota State Representative Glenn Gruenhagen (R-Glencoe) took to the House floor to talk about climate change and renewable energy. Using sources such as the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Rep. ...
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Bangladesh court orders action against factory owner in Nov fire
Delwar Hossain, owner of the Tazreen Fashions garment factory, where 112 workers died in a devastating fire last month, speaks during an interview at the office of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BGMEA) in Dhaka November 29, ...
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Australias got the vision Europe
No, that's cool, we're not in Europe, we get it.But excuse us for feeling a little jealous when we see all that pageantry and - when it comes to the voting - b*stardry, and we can't have a piece of it.We reckon we could mix it with some of Europe's "finest" musical acts.Surely with Australia's Got Talent, Australian Idol, The X Factor and The Voice Australia we ...
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Bees sniff out landmines in Croatia
A scientist inspects bees at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University. Croatian researches are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines. Picture: AP/Darko ...
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One winner scores $590m Powerball
One winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth 590.5 million dollars was sold in Florida, organizers say. Sarah Charlton ...
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Saudi veggie seller self-immolates
A SAUDI vegetable seller who set himself on fire after police confiscated his goods for standing in an unauthorised area has died, a newspaper ...
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Pfeiffer Legality of IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups Irrelevant
ABC This morning on ';This Week,'; White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on ';This Week'; that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service is ';irrelevant,'; but called the behavior ';inexcusable.'; ';I can’t speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant. ...
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Florida man arrested for driving naked allegedly stealing motorcycle
Police in Florida said they arrested a man twice within a 12-hour period, once for driving his car naked and a second time for allegedly stealing a motorcycle. Brian Blake Bienvenu, 24, of Delray Beach, Fla., began his alleged crime spree at 2:20 a.m. local time Thursday, when a security official at Highland Beach Club observed him parking his vehicle in the nude, police said. Bienvenu tried ...
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NTSB looking at broken rail
>Were you there? Share your images with iReport.(CNN) -- Nine people remained in the hospital -- one in critical condition -- two days after a commuter train derailed and struck another train on one of the busiest tracks in the country, officials said Sunday. National Transportation Safety Board investigators looking at the accident, along the busy corridor from New York to New Haven, ...
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When May 19 became day of darkness
>Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story"; "Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War"; and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen. "(CNN) -- The date, in that long-gone American spring, was the same as today's: May 19. The year was 1780. The event is mostly forgotten, lost to the mists ...
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Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting. Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st ...
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Lord Howe David Cameron is losing control of Conservative party over Europe
The former conservative minister Lord Howe, who served as foreign secretary under Margaret Thatcher, has claimed that David Cameron is "losing control" of his party over ...
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Australia the energy superpower?
A new boom in the extraction of Australia's natural gas reserves will have immense economic benefits for the country and especially the state of Western Australia, but conservationists warn of an environmental impact.
Australia is a country rich in natural resources, because of this its economy is an export driven one, and coal, iron ore, wool, meat, gold, and wheat are some of its main exports. It was in the 1920’s that Australia’s economic potential was underpinned by the gold rush that saw its population triple in size in just ten years. Read more
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