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Pope Francis' latest surprise: a survey on the modern family

08.11.2013 21:44
Pope Francis is shaking things up again. The pontiff with a penchant for surprises is making new waves by launching a survey of his flock on issues facing modern families — from gay marriage to divorce. Very specific questions are being sent to parishes around the globe in preparation for next...

Vatican says talk of female cardinals 'not remotely realistic'

08.11.2013 21:42
The announcement that Pope Francis will name new cardinals next year sparked some fevered speculation that he could bestow one of the red birettas on a woman. But the Vatican is doing its best to dispel the rumors, saying that while it's "theologically and theoretically" possible, there won't be a...

US offers $5 million bounty for Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero

08.11.2013 21:40
WASHINGTON -- The State Department is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of freed Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero. The State Department said Tuesday that Caro Quintero kidnapped, tortured and murdered U.S. Drug Enforcement...

Superstitions spark violence against Tanzania's albinos

08.11.2013 21:36
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — One October night in Tanzania’s southernmost Mtwara region, a group of men with their faces covered pounded on the wooden door to Zainab Muhamed’s home and told her to open up. They would not say what they wanted — but it was obvious. Muhamed had just given birth to...

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was murdered with polonium: widow

08.11.2013 21:34
PARIS - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned to death in 2004 with radioactive polonium, his widow Suha said on Wednesday after receiving the results of Swiss forensic tests on her husband's corpse. "We are revealing a real crime, a political assassination," she told Reuters after seeing...

Israel 'utterly rejects' potential Iran nuclear deal

08.11.2013 21:30
GENEVA - Israel rejected out of hand on Friday a mooted deal between world powers and Iran, just as Secretary of State John Kerry prepared to join nuclear talks that aim to nail down an interim agreement on the decade-old standoff. Western diplomats say that a deal at the negotiations in Geneva is...

'Bottle of warm beer' more effective than psychotherapy ? German official sparks outrage

08.11.2013 21:28
Mainz, GERMANY -- A German health official has sparked controversy by suggesting that a "bottle of warm beer" can sometimes be more effective than psychotherapy. Josef Hecken, chairman of the body which decides what treatments are offered by the country's statutory health system, was quoted as...

Brazil Chooses ' Miss' Transsexual

25.10.2013 16:21
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Raika Ferraz , a curvy 21-year - old, has landed the title of "Miss T Brazil ," following the country 's second transsexual beauty pageant. Ferraz , a long - haired , dark - eyed brunette , saw off 27 rivals at the contest late Monday in Rio to land the first prize of a...

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets by Simon Singh – review

25.10.2013 16:11
The Simpsons , Simon Singh says, is "arguably the most successful television show in history". It may also be the most allusive: it sometimes seems as if every aspect of the show is a knowing reference to something else. And sometimes it seems as if everything else is an unknowing reference to The...

Faces are sculpted by 'junk DNA'

25.10.2013 16:05
Researchers have started to figure out how DNA fine-tunes faces. In experiments on mice, they have identified thousands of regions in the genome that act like dimmer switches for the many genes that code for facial features, such as the shape of the skull or size of the nose. Specific mutations in...
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