German Church gets tougher on child sex abuse
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:11:28 -0700
Germany’s Catholic Church yesterday unveiled tougher guidelines on investigating and preventing child sex abuse that it hopes will stop a repeat of the hugely damaging scandals of this year.
German Church gets tough on child sex
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:33:40 -0700
Germany's Catholic Church has unveiled tougher guidelines on investigating and preventing child sex abuse.
German Church gets tougher on child sex
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:39:06 -0700
Germany's Catholic Church unveiled on Tuesday tougher guidelines on investigating and preventing child sex abuse.
German bishops order child-sex charges reported to police - Summary
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:49:20 -0700
Trier, Germany - Germany's Catholic bishops have ordered all future allegations of child molestation to be reported to police, said Stephan Ackermann, the bishop in charge of the issue, on Tuesday.
AP Exclusive: Secret testimony reveals stars' loss
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:33:00 -0700
Roughly two weeks before a judge would sentence her to jail, Lindsay Lohan sat in a downtown courtroom and recounted to a grand jury how a burglar's black fingerprints on her wall left her so unnerved
holding back
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:07:53 -0700
there’s still so much to be said and asked about the aug 23 bloodbath but i’m holding back just because the hong kong chinese are hurt enough, enraged enough, and things are bad enough for filipinos in hong kong. also, even if i didn’t vote for him, i don’t want to make it worse [...]
Papers of anti-comic book crusader now open to scholars
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:38:04 -0700
Among comic books aficionados his name is still synonymous with prudery and repression. Several years ago I was perusing the goods at a comics store in Southern California, when I came across reprints of that exquisitely gruesome series, Tales from the Crypt . "Say," I asked a teenager at the register, just as an experiment. "You ever heard of that guy who went ballistic on comics back in the ...
Usain Bolt: Fast and loose for you
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:16:49 -0700
He can run 100m in 9.58 secs, but says he's lazy. He's the best sprinter, but fancies turning his hand to pro football.
Defeat is an orphan
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:50:46 -0700
Yes, "victory has many fathers and defeat is an orphan”. The current news of the world is the tragic hostage event which happened in front of the Quirino grandstand at the Luneta in Manila. It would seem that almost all of the officials who were in charge or at least supposed to be in charge have not surfaced even reluctantly. Fortunately PNP Chief Superintendent Rodolfo Magtibay Director of the ...
INTERNATIONAL SOCCER: Atletico beats Inter, 2-0, to win Super Cup
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:21:13 -0700
Jose Antonio Reyes and Sergio Aguero scored second-half goals as Atletico Madrid beat Inter Milan 2-0 to win the European Super Cup for the first time Friday.
Soccer Capsules: Fulham signs Mexico defender Salcido from PSV
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:56:47 -0700
LONDON (AP) — Fulham signed Mexico defender Carlos Salcido from Dutch club PSV Eindhoven on a three-year contract on Friday. The fee for the 30-year-old left-back was undisclosed, but is reportedly about >1.6 million pounds ($2.5 million).
Israel asks Germany to act against fugitive Nazi criminal
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:20:43 -0700
Jerusalem, Aug 26 : Israel has asked Berlin to re-examine the case of a Nazi war criminal who fled from a Dutch jail to Germany in 1952, an Israeli Justice Ministry Spokesman confirmed Thursday.
Israel asks Germany to take action against fugitive Nazi criminal
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:18:39 -0700
Jerusalem- Israel has asked Berlin to re-examine the case of a Nazi war criminal who fled from a Dutch jail to Germany in 1952, an Israeli Justice Ministry Spokesman confirmed Thursday.
Book examines stories behind secular news reporting on abuse crisis
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:29:57 -0700
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Greg Erlandson decided to write a book on the clergy sex abuse crisis because the secular media kept raising questions about Pope Benedict XVI's handling of cases in their coverage of a new wave of clergy sex abuse in dioceses around the world.
Radioactive boars on the rise in Germany
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:03:12 -0700
Almost a quarter century after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine, its fallout is still a hot topic in some German regions, where thousands of boars shot by hunters still turn up with excessive levels of radioactivity.
Soccer Capsules: Puebla president held on fraud charges
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 02:56:47 -0700
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Francisco Bernat, the president and largest shareholder of Mexico first-division club Puebla, is being held in a prison in Mexico City following his detention on charges of fraud reported to involve 30 million pesos ($2.3 million).
Ohio, count your blessings: In Germany, the boars are radioactive
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:09:04 -0700
Lingering radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown in Ukraine accumulates in the flesh of the omnivorous pigs, to the point that many are too hot for safe consumption.
Radioactive boars on the rise in Germany
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:28:40 -0700
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Tottenham Hotspur, Ajax advance to European Champions League tournament
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:24:28 -0700
Peter Crouch scores three goals as Tottenham Hotspur makes the tournament for the first time since 1962. Peter Crouch scored three goals on Wednesday to propel Tottenham Hotspur to a 4-0 victory over Young Boys of Switzerland and earned the London club a place in soccer's European Champions League competition for the first time since 1962.
Soccer Capsules: Alleged drug lord sheltered Cabanas' assailant
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:26:48 -0700
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An alleged drug lord being held by Mexican authorities says that for three months he hid the fugitive wanted in the shooting seven months ago of Paraguay footballer Salvador Cabanas.
