Archive for May, 2007
May 15th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion, Society /
Falwell, a television evangelist who founded the Moral Majority, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and serves as its ...
May 15th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
It was the religious conservatives pushing certain senators and congressman that caused the Internet gambling ban in America. Last year's law was passed as Internet gambling was deemed to be ...
May 14th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
White House press secretary Tony Snow said the president's position opposing mandatory emissions caps has not changed. While recognizing that greenhouse gases are a serious contributor to climate change, Bush ...
May 14th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
Cannabis smokers are unwittingly funding Islamist extremists linked to terror attacks in Spain, Morocco and Algeria, according to a joint investigation by the Spanish and French secret services. The finding ...
May 13th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
May 13,2007 | IZMIR, Turkey -- Choking the highways and crammed onto ferries, hundreds of thousands of Turks streamed into this port city on Sunday in an enormous show of ...
May 12th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
May 12,2007 | ROME -- Hundreds of thousands of people, including families with their children, packed a Rome piazza on Saturday to protest legislation that would give legal rights to ...
May 12th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
GUARATINGUETA, Brazil -- Pope Benedict XVI warned drug traffickers Saturday that they would face divine justice for the scourge of illegal narcotics across Latin America, telling them that, "God will ...
May 11th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
The city has ordered more than 100 adult cabarets, bookstores and other so-called sexually oriented businesses to close down their operations or face criminal and civil penalties, according to warning ...
May 10th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
Saying the global media empire produced 641,150 tonnes of greenhouse gas last year, the News chairman and CEO last night pledged to go green. "We could make ...
May 8th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
Authorities said there was no direct evidence connecting the men to any international terror organizations such as al-Qaida. But several of them said they were ready to kill and die ...
May 8th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
An investigation by ABC TV's Four Corners program suggests a growing number of elderly Australians are prepared to flout the law to commit suicide. The euthanasia group ...
May 8th, 2007 / Newswire, Science, Society /
Now some leading ethicists and doctors are re-examining the principle of informed consent in government organ-donor programs, arguing that harvesting from cadavers should be a routine procedure just like autopsies ...
May 7th, 2007 / Energy Transition, Newswire /
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lloyd's of London, the world's oldest insurer, offered a gloomy forecast of floods, droughts and disastrous storms over the next 50 years in a recently published ...
May 7th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Energy Transition, Newswire /
DETROIT, Michigan (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday that U.S. energy policy must change in order to help domestic automakers answer the rising global demand for fuel-efficient ...
May 6th, 2007 / Religion /
Photographer Spencer Tunick managed to pull off a photo shoot today at Zocalo Square in the heart of Mexico City with 18,000 nude volunteers--a record. Reuters ...
May 4th, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion Inspired Murders /
A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion. As a horrifying video of the stoning ...
May 4th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
"As a nation, we have exhibited such courage in the past by rejecting the use of religion to sanction slavery and the subjugation of women," Gold said, adding that people ...
May 4th, 2007 / Newswire, Religion, Society /
Cacy Cantwell says Austin "Jack" DeCoster told him before he was fired that they would have to "part ways" because the manager didn't believe in God. With the backing of ...
May 3rd, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire /
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday threatened to nationalize the country's banks and largest steel producer, accusing them of unscrupulous practices.
May 1st, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
I guarantee you that the power of belief and faith is greater than the power of America and Israel. They are cowards who are eager for life, while we are ...
May 1st, 2007 / Energy Transition, Newswire, Religion /
April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy ...
May 1st, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
Tehran, 30 April (AKI) - The culture committee of the Iranian parliament approved on Monday a bill sentencing to death producers of 'pornography', videos and films deemed vulgar by the ...
May 1st, 2007 / Current Affairs, Newswire, Religion /
Tehran, 30 April (AKI) - A group of supporters of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday forced their way into the campus of top Tehran university Amir Kabir Polytechnic and ...