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Municipalities Must Reap What They Sow, Say Humanists
The American Humanist Association applauded the U.S. Supreme Court today for agreeing to hear Pleasant Grove City v. Summum, 07-665. This is a free speech and equal access case in which Summum, a religious group, seeks to display its aphorisms in the same public park where a Ten Commandments monument appears. "Fair is fair," declared Mel Lipman, a constitutional law attorney and president of the American Humanist Association. "If Pleasant Grove City, Utah, keeps its Ten Commandments monument on the pretext of Supreme Court rulings that allow such religious expressions on public property when included with others, then Pleasant Grove City will have to allow others. On the other hand, if the city is willing to give up its Ten Commandments monument, then it can reject the Summum monument." In court cases allowing Ten Commandments monuments and creche displays on public property, the critical factor has always been that the monument or display must be sufficiently mixed with other elements. But attorneys for Pleasant Grove City argue, "Government bodies are now sitting targets for demands that they grant 'equal access' to whatever comparable monuments a given group wishes to have installed, be it Summum's Seven Aphorisms, an atheist group's Monument to Freethought or Rev. Fred Phelps's denunciations of homosexual persons." "This is correct," stated American Humanist Association Executive Director Roy Speckhardt. "When the religious right fought hard for placing the Ten Commandments and creche displays on public property, they forgot to be careful what they wished for. In our brief to the Supreme Court, the American Humanist Association warned against allowing religious displays on public property." In 2004, in a Van Orden v. Perry amicus brief filed by the American Humanist Association on behalf of itself and over a dozen religious and secular organizations, it was pointed out that "Posting the Ten Commandments on public grounds constitutes government endorsement of certain religious sects to the exclusion of religious minorities and nontheists." This warned of the impossibility of accommodating every religious expression in every public forum, arguing against the very idea of government-sponsored religious displays. "Now they must reap what they have sown," concluded Lipman. "Either they get their monuments at the price of letting all others in, or they give them up--they can't have it both ways." In anticipation of a Supreme Court victory for Summum, the American Humanist Association is now pursuing the idea of placing stone monuments of Ted Turner's "Ten Voluntary Initiatives" in every public park that has a legal Ten Commandments monument. Turner received the Humanist of the Year Award from the American Humanist Association in 1990 and the organization has widely publicized the humanist principles stated in what has been nicknamed "The Ted Commandments." See www.americanhumanist.org/publications/morain/chapter-7.html for more information. LINKSee also: Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Controversy Over Religious Symbols On Public Property
Archaeologists Start Stonehenge Dig
London -- Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built? More...See also: How Were The Egyptian Pyramids Built?
Billboard: All Religions Are Fairy Tales
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- It looked harmless enough, but the words on a billboard unnerved so many people that a popular restaurant nearby actually lost business. The billboard was on Colonial Drive near Old Cheney Highway. More...
Gay Couple Loses Benefits With Move
The couple was stunned when Ryan was dropped from the company insurance plan the two shared in New Jersey, where they were able to register as domestic partners. Idaho does not formally recognize same-sex couples. More...
Cartoon To Be Edited Out Of Anti-Quran Film
Children In Voodoo's Power
In the tiny West African country of Benin, voodoo has been practised for 10,000 years, but efforts to preserve its ancient oral traditions are exacting a harsh toll on its faithful, splitting families and pushing people deeper into poverty. More...
Sources: Iran Helped Prod Al-Sadr Cease-Fire
3 NATO Troops Killed In Afghan Blast
(CNN) -- Two British marines and a Danish soldier have been killed in Afghanistan. More...
Turkey's Rulers Face Trial Over Islamic Policies
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's top court will hear a case for a ban on the Islamic-rooted ruling party, a decision that could lead to months of political uncertainty in a nation divided over the role of religion in society. More...See also: Call It a Coup
UN Urged To Act Against Blasphemy
Convicted Islamist Terrorists Exploiting Growing Prison Gang Culture
Convicted Islamist terrorists are exploiting the growing gang culture in top security jails, fuelling fears that they are trying to radicalise other inmates and foment unrest. More...
Number Of Muslims Ahead Of Catholics, Says Vatican
The number of Muslims has overtaken that of Roman Catholics for the first time, the Vatican said yesterday. Muslims account for 19.2% of the world's population, while Catholics make up 17.4%, according to the Vatican's new statistics yearbook, which is based on figures for 2006. --snip-- The Vatican data showed that Christians as a whole, including Orthodox and Protestant groups as well as Catholics, made up 33% of the world's population. Applying the percentages to the 2006 world population of about 6.5 billion, Muslims would have made up 1.25 billion of the total, Catholics 1.13 billion and all Christians 2.15 billion. More...
Egypt: Ex-Muslims Blocked From Declaring Conversion
Christian-born converts to Islam in Egypt wishing to return to their former faith have found their way blocked by an appeal before the country's Supreme Constitutional Court. More...See also: My quest to get de-baptised
Missing NY Rev. Found At Ohio Strip Club
(AP) Police say a pastor who was reported missing from his home in western New York has been found at an Ohio strip club. More...
Faith-Healing Parents Charged In Baby's Death
Basra Fighting Death Toll Nears 300
Hindu Monks Sue RSPCA Over Slaughter Of Sacred Cow Gangotri
Hindu monks are to sue the RSPCA in protest over the killing of a sacred cow. A group of monks from Bhaktivedanta Manor Hindu temple, in Hertfordshire, yesterday served legal papers on the animal welfare charity for trespassing when they put down the temple's sacred cow Gangotri on 13 December last year. More...
Dutch Await Reaction After MP Releases Film On Qur'an
UN OKs Islamic Text Against Defamation
GENEVA -- The top U.N. rights body on Thursday passed a resolution proposed by Islamic countries saying it is deeply concerned about the defamation of religions and urging governments to prohibit it. More...
Religious Battles In Turkey
Doomsday Fears Spark Lawsuit
The builders of the world's biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet. More...
Parents' Faith Fails To Save Diabetic Girl
International Zone Under Curfew As Attacks Continue
Penalty For Pharmacist's Refusal Upheld
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- A state appeals court upheld sanctions Tuesday against a pharmacist who refused to dispense birth control pills to a woman and wouldn't transfer her prescription elsewhere. More...
Unease Rises Over Anti-Islam Film
ROTTERDAM (IPS) -- In announcing the release of his anti-Quran film, Geert Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, has generated a swell of media attention in the Netherlands in the past months. Politicians have urged him not to go ahead with the release of the film 'Fitna' because they say its controversial content may lead to national and international unrest. More...
FreeThoughtAction Hero Of The Day - 3/26/08
 Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) According to Wikipedia, Dawkins "is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.
"Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. In 1982, he made a widely cited contribution to the science of evolution with the theory, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that phenotypic effects are not limited to an organism's body but can stretch far into the environment, including into the bodies of other organisms. He has since written several best-selling popular books, and appeared in a number of television and radio programmes, concerning evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion.
"Dawkins is an outspoken atheist, humanist, and sceptic, and is a prominent member of the Brights movement. In a play on Thomas Huxley's epithet 'Darwin's bulldog,' Dawkins' impassioned defence of evolution has earned him the appellation 'Darwin's rottweiler.'"Happy Birthday, Richard Dawkins!
Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray For Healing Instead Of Seeking Medical Help
WESTON, Wis. -- An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday. More...
Child's Death May Put Faith Law To Test
The case of a 15-month-old Oregon City girl who died for lack of medical treatment could become the first test of a state law that disallows faith healing at the expense of a child's life. More...
Denmark Charges 3 In Terrorism Case
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Prosecutors filed terrorism charges Tuesday against two alleged Islamic militants accused of preparing explosives for use in an attack in Denmark or abroad. More...
Alleged Passover Massacre Plotter Arrested
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israeli forces have arrested a wanted Hamas leader accused of planning one of the worst suicide attacks on Israel, the Israeli military announced Wednesday. More...
Deadline For Iraqi Militias As Clashes Intensify
BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister on Wednesday gave gunmen in the southern oil port of Basra three days to surrender their weapons and renounce violence as clashes between security forces and Shiite militia fighters erupted for a second day. Suspected Shiite extremists also unleashed rockets or mortars against the U.S.-protected Green Zone in central Baghdad for the third day this week. More...See also: Iraqi PM Gives Shiite Militias Ultimatum
Pastor Admits Stealing IDs From Flock
(AP) The former pastor of a Northumberland County church acknowledges using parishioners' personal information to obtain credit cards. More...
Oldest Known Human Fossil Found
MADRID, Spain - A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. More...See also: Bones show humans in Europe 1.2 mln years ago: study
2008 Atheist Alliance International Convention
"Unsinkable Atheism," the 14th Annual Atheist Alliance International (AAI) Convention, will be held the weekend of September 25--28, 2008 on the beautiful and historic Queen Mary, which is permanently docked in Long Beach, California. More...
Celebrities, Religious Liberty Heroes Headline National Simulcast For Church-State Separation
Actors, musicians and comedians will join church-state activists from across the country March 26 to put church-state separation on the national agenda during the 2008 election season. More...
In Search Of The God Particle
The biggest experiment in particle physics, the Large Hadron Collider, starts this summer in Switzerland. The goal is to find signs of an elusive particle called the Higgs boson-also known as the "God particle" because it might ultimately lead to a grand theory of the universe. What impact will the experiments have on our ideas of the cosmos and our place in it? More...
Harbingers Of Disaster Gather
BEIRUT -- Dark clouds loom on Lebanon's horizon. In the streets, young men gather weapons. Off the Mediterranean shore, U.S. warships have approached for the first time since the 1980s. The Shiite militia Hezbollah boasts that it has rearmed in preparation for the next round of conflict with Israel. Throw in a series of bombings and assassinations and a paralyzed government, and the words "tipping point" come to mind. --snip-- Political tensions in the early 1970s between Christians and Muslims mushroomed into a 15-year civil war. An Israeli invasion in 1982 devolved into an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon. A 2006 Hezbollah operation to take a couple of Israeli hostages to trade for other prisoners turned into a monthlong war and an international crisis that drew in the U.S., France, the United Nations and the Arab League. More...
Peaceful Iraq Protests Spark Clashes; 50 Reported Dead
Czech Right-Wingers Help For Anti-Koran Film
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) -- A Czech far-right party has offered to help a Dutch lawmaker distribute an anti-Koran film on the Internet if it is banned from being released in the Netherlands. More...
Muslims 'To Outnumber Traditional Churchgoers'
The increasing influence of Islam on British culture is disclosed in research today that shows the number of Muslims worshipping at mosques in England and Wales will outstrip the numbers of Roman Catholics going to church in little more than a decade. More...
Evolution Of New Species Slows Down As Number Of Competitors Increases
ScienceDaily -- The rate at which new species are formed in a group of closely related animals decreases as the total number of different species in that group goes up, according to new research. The research team believes these findings suggest that new species appear less and less as the number of species in a region approaches the maximum number that it can support. More...
Brains Are Hardwired To Act According To The Golden Rule
ScienceDaily -- Wesley Autrey, a black construction worker, a Navy veteran and 55-year-old father of two, didn't know the young man standing beside him. But when he had a seizure on the subway platform and toppled onto the tracks, Autrey jumped down after him and shielded him with his body as a train bore down on them. Autrey could have died, so why did he put his life on the line - literally - to save this complete stranger? Donald Pfaff, the author of the new book The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule, thinks he has the answer. Our brains, he says, are hardwired to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Individual acts of aggression and evil occur when this circuitry jams. More...See also: We Help Friends Due To Empathy; Relatives Due To Expectation Of ReciprocityConsideration For Others Stimulates Positive BehaviorMoney Buys Happiness When You Spend On Others, Study Shows
Humanists Ask Iowa To "Stand Firm"
The Appignani Humanist Legal Center (AHLC), legal arm of the American Humanist Association, sent a letter today to the Iowa Department of Administrative Services urging Iowa to stand firm in the face of a legal challenge brought by the Association of Faith-Based Organizations (AFBO). AFBO sued the Iowa department to challenge a state regulation that excludes organizations engaged in sectarian activities from participating in Iowa's One Gift Campaign, in which the government provides resources to aid in transferring voluntary employee contributions to a recipient. "The government should not lend its resources to help transfer money to groups that may use the funds to proselytize or discriminate on the basis of religion, even if those funds come from an voluntary source," commented Bob Ritter, legal coordinator of AHLC. "The American Humanist Association strongly supports the Iowa regulation which upholds the American principle of separation of church and state." More...
Comprehensive Sex Ed May Cut Teen Birth Rate
NEW YORK - Comprehensive sex education that includes discussion of birth control may help reduce teen pregnancies, while abstinence-only programs seem to fall short, the results of a U.S. survey suggest. Using data from a 2002 national survey, researchers found that among more than 1,700 unmarried, heterosexual teens between 15 and 19 years old, those who'd received comprehensive sex ed in school were 60 percent less likely to have been pregnant or gotten someone pregnant than teens who'd had no formal sex education. Meanwhile, there was no clear benefit from abstinence-only education in preventing pregnancy or delaying sexual intercourse, the researchers report in the Journal of Adolescent Health. More...
FBI: Bodies Of Kidnapped U.S. Contractors Found
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The remains of two U.S. contractors who were kidnapped in Iraq have been found, FBI officials said Monday. More...
At Least 5 Killed In Raid By Somalia's Islamic Militants
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Witnesses say insurgents have briefly overrun a police station after three hours of fighting killed at least five people, just one day after the Somali prime minister began new peace efforts. More...
Man Slain Over Purported Witchcraft Use
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) -- Three suspects brutally killed a man whom they accused of using witchcraft to put an "evil-eye" spell on one of their relatives, officials on Mexico's Caribbean coast said Monday. More...
Easter
According to Wikipedia, "Easter is the most important religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. It is believed by the Christians to be the resurrection of Jesus, which Christians believe occurred on the third day after his crucifixion around AD 33."In fact, it might be said that Christianity stands or falls based on whether or not the resurrection of Jesus actually occurred. The "evidence" is sketchy. The primary "evidence" comes from so-called "New Testament" biblical texts. We do not have the original copies of these texts. The earliest sufficiently complete copies we have come hundreds of years after the supposed events. They are fragmentary and are copies of earlier copies, which are themselves copies of earlier copies, and so on, to an unknown degree removed from the originals. Comparisons of the various copies that we do have show variations between them and indicate that copying errors occurred. The sudden appearance of new sections of text in later copies (text that doesn't appear in any earlier copies) indicate that some things were added later and were most likely not contained in the original versions. This opens up the possibility that additions were made before the earliest copies available to us as well. Even the originals, from which the flawed copies are derived, were written decades after the supposed events took place. None of them were likely written by actual eye-witnesses, so they are second-hand accounts at best. They are likely even further removed from the supposed events than that, either based on prior writings that are lost to us and/or oral traditions that were passed down over time. [The reliability of stories passed down orally is suspect to anyone who has ever played the game "Telephone."] Additionally, the original authorship of the various texts is either entirely unknown or speculative. The various texts that we are left with are in conflict with one another in many of their details regarding the events that supposedly took place. They also sometimes apparently conflict with what we know about the history, culture, or traditions of that time, place, and people. They include accounts that are suspiciously similar to other earlier stories that were told about other god-men that we now consider mythological, and these accounts claim various extraordinary and supernatural events taking place that most of us would consider wild, outrageous, and even unbelievable were they to be told about something happening in today's world with no more evidence than what we have here. Even if we assume that Jesus existed and that the whole story wasn't an invention, distortion, or in any way embellished, that the written translations were more or less uncorrupted and somewhat accurate translations from the original texts, and that the original texts were based on accurate reports of more or less uncorrupted and somewhat accurate oral accounts given in good faith by actual eye-witnesses (which is quite a lot to assume), there is still the possibility that the witnesses were mistaken or deceived. So we have flawed translations of conflicting reports by anonymous authors who were relaying second-hand hearsay-accounts of wild, extraordinary, and supernatural events given by unsophisticated witnesses, who were possibly duped, mistaken, or lying (if the authors themselves weren't fabricating or embellishing), and that are suspiciously similar to earlier stories circulating at the time which we now consider unbelievable mythology. This kind of "evidence" would be laughed out of any court of law today. It is certainly not much to base your life on. Occum's Razor and common sense suggest that there are any number of other more rational/natural explanations for these accounts of supposed events than the one Christians believe. I think it unlikely that most Christians would even believe it, if they were presented with this evidence for the first time as adults and not brought up to believe it as children when they were most impressionable. In some ways it seems strangely appropriate to celebrate this day with painted hard-boiled eggs, chocolate, and bunny rabbits. I mean, if we are going the irrational route, why not? At least it is a more pleasant combination than celery, grasshoppers, and motor oil.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster Appears On The Courthouse Lawn In Crossville Tennessee
"If you allow one belief, then you must equally allow all others who request. The door was opened last year when the County allowed Jesus sculptures to be placed on the Courthouse steps and the Courthouse lawn. Now Cumberland County must welcome all requests equally. I expect our Courthouse lawn to become an open forum for personal expression. Our county property now looks Cheesier than ever. Got any Parmesan?"More...
Prominent Muslim Becomes Catholic On Easter
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Italy's most prominent Muslim commentator converted to Roman Catholicism on Saturday during the Vatican's Easter vigil service presided over by the pope. More...
Dozens Dead In Wave Of Iraq Violence
Al Qaeda's No. 2 Reportedly Orders Defense Of Palestinians
(CNN) -- A new statement attributed to al Qaeda's No. 2 figure, Ayman al-Zawahiri, calls on Muslims to attack Western interests in defense of the Palestinians in Gaza. More...
Dutch Anti-Koran Film's Web Site Shut Down
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The Web site where Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders was promoting his not-yet-released anti-Koran film has been suspended by its U.S. hosting service. More...
Christianity And Islam Race For Prominence At Olympic Park
The Olympics is meant to promote solidarity -- but the 2012 Games has become a question of faith for some in East London as Christianity and Islam vie to become the most visible religion around the 500-acre park. More...
Sydney Archbishop Warns Against Occult Forces
In his Easter message this weekend, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Dr Peter Jensen has warned of the occult. More...
Star Explodes Halfway Across Universe
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye. --snip-- The 7.5 billion light years away far eclipses the previous naked eye record of 2.5 million light years. One light year is 5.9 trillion miles. More...
The 21st Century Pagans Of Dorset
Druids, witches and shamans make their way to Stonehenge for equinox. More...
Pilgrims Crowd Holy Land For Good Friday
(AP) Thousands of Christians from all over the world crowded the stone alleyways of Jerusalem's Old City to mark Good Friday, retracing the route Jesus took to his crucifixion. More...
What Causes Earth's Seasons?
Nicolai Copernicus (1473-1543) radically changed our understanding of astronomy when he proposed that the sun, not Earth, was the center of the solar system. This led to our modern understanding of the relationship between the sun and Earth. We now know that Earth orbits the sun elliptically and, at the same time, spins on an axis that is tilted relative to its plane of orbit. This means that different hemispheres are exposed to different amounts of sunlight throughout the year. Because the sun is our source of light, energy and heat, the changing intensity and concentration of its rays give rise to the seasons of winter, spring, summer and fall. More...
63-Year-Old Solves Riddle From 1970
JERUSALEM - A mathematical puzzle that baffled the top minds in the esoteric field of symbolic dynamics for nearly four decades has been cracked -- by a 63-year-old immigrant who once had to work as a security guard. --snip-- Margolis said the solution could have many applications. "Say you've lost an e-mail and you want to get it back -- it would be guaranteed," he said. "Let's say you are lost in a town you have never been in before and you have to get to a friend's house and there are no street signs -- the directions will work no matter what." More...
Early Life On Earth: Lots Of Sex And No Predators
Bin Laden Message: Iraq Is 'Perfect Base'
(CNN) -- Al-Jazeera broadcast on Thursday an audiotape on which a voice identified as Osama bin Laden declares "Iraq is the perfect base to set up the jihad to liberate Palestine." The voice calls on "Muslims in neighboring countries" to "do their best in supporting their mujahedeen brothers in Iraq." "My speech to you is about the siege of Gaza and the way to liberate it," he said. More...See also: Report: World ignoring Iraqi refugee crisis
7 Killed In Raid By Somalia's Islamic Militants
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- Insurgents briefly overran two government bases Thursday after hours of fighting killed at least seven people, including a 7-year-old boy, witnesses said. More...
Filipinos Warned On Crucifixions
Health officials in the Philippines have issued a warning to people taking part in Easter crucifixion rituals. They have urged them to get tetanus vaccinations before they flagellate themselves and are nailed to crosses, and to practise good hygiene. More...
Is Religion Influencing Your Health Care?
New York -- Some 14 percent of physicians in the U.S. will favor their religious beliefs over the well-being of their patients and refrain from administering procedures that their religion is opposed to, says a study published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. "These physicians won't tell the patient that these procedures -- such as abortion, contraception, contraception for teenagers without parental consent and terminal sedation -- even exist," says Dr. Richard Sloan, professor of Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry of Columbia University Medical Center, New York. "They won't tell patients that they have legal options in those areas and they won't refer these patient to other physicians who will deliver those procedures." "With 14 percent of physicians influenced by, and acting on, their religious beliefs, that translates to about 40 million Americans treated by those physicians," Dr. Sloan adds. And that's not counting the other ways in which religion creeps into health-care delivery, such as the belief that prayer will aid a patient's recovery. "The claims for a scientific basis for the impact of religious devotion on health is a complete misuse of science -- and evidence of junk science," the professor states. Dr. Sloan, the author of Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine, will discuss, at the March 27th meeting of the New York City Atheists association, how serious ethical issues are raised by these attempts to bring religious practices into clinical medicine. The intrusion of religion into medicine raises ethical issues of manipulation, coercion and invasion of privacy -- not to mention actually causing harm -- "all of which are completely antithetical to the role that physicians are supposed to play in clinical medicine," Dr. Sloan says. Come and ask Dr. Sloan how we can achieve a totally scientific and unbiased health care delivery system in this country. WHEN:Thursday, March 27 at 6:30 p.m. WHERE:SLC Conference Center 352 Seventh Ave. (Bet. 29th & 30th St.) 16th floor New York, NY COST:$5: donation toward the cost of our conference room. For More Information:Jane Everhart Director of Communications New York City Atheists 212-879-2687 Kenneth Bronstein President New York City Atheists 212-535-7425 --- Earlier: Washington State Has The Right To Require Pharmacists To Fill Doctors' Prescriptions, Says Americans UnitedHumanists Join Legal Brief in Pharmacist ControversyRelated: Go public if you have any ethical qualms, doctors ordered by GMCDoctors' Orders
Faith+Values: Godless Masses?
Those gathering in Minneapolis next weekend for the American Atheists' national convention won't stand out. In fact, chances are they'll look just like your neighbors and co-workers. More...Click HERE for details about the event.
Organic Molecule Detected On Distant Planet
Scientists have detected the presence of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet for the first time, NASA announced today. More...
Death Toll Rises To 50 In Iraq Bombing
13 Hurt In Yemen Attack
(CNN) -- The American Embassy in Yemen was the target of a mortar attack Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said, contradicting a suggestion from the Yemeni government the attack targeted a school where 13 were injured. More...
PA Urges Palestinians To 'Return'
Landslide Victory For Iran's Conservatives
Conservatives in Iran celebrated winning a near-landslide victory in parliamentary elections, gaining an expected 70 per cent majority in the 290-seat assembly and retaining the control that they have held over parliament since 2004. More...
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