The Vatican will establish a special committee to investigate regular appearances of the Virgin Mary in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The first sighting took place in June 1981, when six children said that they had seen the Virgin.
The World Health Organization released a report this week revealing record levels of drug-resistant Tuberculosis, with Asia as the epicentre of a condition whereby standard drugs no longer have any effect on the disease, which destroys the lungs. A more shocking statistic revealed by this report is that only seven per cent of patients are diagnosed in time.
The Obama administration does not hope to capture Osama bin Laden alive. Attorney General Eric Holder said that Bin Laden would never face trial in the United States. The chances for Bin Laden to be captured are “infinitesimal”, Holder said.
"Either he will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so that he is not captured by us," he said.
According to the reports, the planes were on a "spy mission" that may be connected to the assassination of a Syrian national in his vehicle Wednesday in the Hungarian capital.
Experts say that they are being put in place for an assault on Iran's nuclear facilities. There has long been speculation that the US military is preparing for such an attack, despite all evidence to the contrary, that Iran is not planning on manufacturing nuclear weapons.
How many people live in your home? Are any of them Hispanic? Are the people who live in your home citizens? How big is your home? Do you have difficulty making decisions or climbing stairs? How much do you pay for your sewage system? Are you married? What's your rent or mortgage payment? Do you own an automobile? Are you on food stamps? How much money do you make?
These are just a sample of the highly detailed and personal questions asked in the mandatory American Community Survey the U.S. Census Bureau will send to a sample of some 3 million U.S. households in addition to the 2010 Census.
Cyclone Tomas, packing winds of up to 130 mph (205 kph) at its center and gusts of up to 175 mph (280 kph), started hitting Fiji late Friday. It blasted through the northern Lau and Lomaiviti island groups and the northern coast of the second biggest island, Vanua Levu, before losing strength as it moved out to sea Wednesday, the nation's weather office said.
After he dies, Christopher Hill plans to speak to his grandchildren, great grandchildren and even future generations from beyond the grave - not through a psychic medium or his last will and testament, but through a microchip.
The authors of the hoax forgot to mention that neither the former speaker of the Georgian parliament Nino Burjanadze, nor the former Prime Minister Zurab Nogandeli could be referred to as pro-Russian politicians. It did not matter, though, for it was not the goal for which the hoax was made.
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.
Tomas reached its closest point to the nation's capital early this morning, wreaking havoc some 200 kilometres east of Suva, Fiji Meteorological Service senior forecaster Matt Boterhoven said.
In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
That's why a NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica. A curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera's cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.
Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of "Mission Impossible" as well as the satire of the "Airplane" films, has died.
Imedi TV introduced the report as an "imitation of possible events", but the warning was lost on many viewers as mobile phone networks crashed and residents of Tbilisi rushed into the streets.
The oldest wreck probably dates back to medieval times and could be up to 800 years old, while the others are likely from the 17th to 19th centuries, Peter Norman of Sweden's National Heritage Board said Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.
The situation in Greece raises serious concerns with the European Union. Greece has become the weak link of the Eurozone. If Greece declares default, it will strike a very serious blow on the euro and the future of the European Union in general.
Thousands who worked at "Ground Zero" in the ruins of the World Trade Center sued the city of New York and its contractors for claims of injuries associated with their rescue and clean-up work.
Alejandro Mikitiuk snapped this photo on December 12, 2:38 pm local time....that is being touted as the best Argentinean UFO photo of the decade.
Mr. Mikitiuk was taking photos of a house that he was building on his property in the Sierras Bayas district of Olavarria, Province of Buenos Aires. Photo analysis performed by Patricio J. Barrancos yields a "positive" result: "there is a solid object in flight at low altitude and at a relative distance from the indirect witness."
The very morning following the widely celebrated Woman's Day - people in Southern Russia could not believe their eyes when they found purple snow piled on city streets.
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Daily Motivator
What you will do
Forget about what you can't do. Focus on what you will do.
Dream big dreams and make workable plans that will get you there. Then put those plans into action and do what you will do.
Allow the beauty and richness of your dreams to expand your concept of what you are willing to do. This is your life and you deserve to give yourself the very best.
Intensely feel the accomplishment in your imagination. Let that incomparable feeling of satisfaction push you forward.
Focus on what you will do and you'll discover that it is more than enough. You have within you the capacity, the ability and the drive to reach whatever dreams are meaningful to you.
Every day is an opportunity for richness and fulfillment. Feel what you will do, and why, and make today the best one yet.
"If our calculations are correct, the quake moved Earth's figure axis by about 3 inches (8 cm)," says geophysicist Richard Gross of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.