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/ 17 November 2009
Global warming is ”inextricably linked” to food security, Seychelles President James Michel said at the UN hunger summit on Monday.
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/ 5 November 2009
An Italian judge convicted 23 United States and two Italian secret agents for the CIA’s kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday backed the beatification of his controversial World War II predecessor Pius XII.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday that failure was not an option in addressing the global food price crisis, and said an extra -billion to -billion per year would be needed to help avoid disaster.
Self-made billionaire Silvio Berslusconi looked set to secure a third term as Italian prime minister on Monday, with exit polls predicting a narrow win for his conservative coalition in general elections. The exit polls, which came moments after voting ended, predicted the 71-year-old media magnate’s centre-right coalition would win.
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/ 4 September 2007
I’m Not There, a biopic of folk icon Bob Dylan in which he is conspicuously absent but omnipresent, should ”wash over you like a dream”, the film’s director, Todd Haynes, said on Tuesday. Viewers should not ”get too bogged down in the literal connections to Dylan and let it take you somewhere”, Haynes told reporters.
Visiting Pope Benedict XVI’s pronouncements in favour of sexual abstinence and against abortion are falling on deaf ears in Brazil, whose government hands out free condoms to schoolboys as part of a drive to curb HIV/Aids and teenage pregnancy.
The late pope John Paul II will move a step closer to sainthood next week when the Vatican receives proof of his miraculous intercession to cure a French nun of Parkinson’s disease, diocesan officials said on Tuesday. The ”miracle” will qualify the charismatic Polish pope for beatification, the main stepping stone to becoming a saint.
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/ 30 November 2006
Pope Benedict XVI met with the head of the Greek Orthodox Church on Wednesday to pursue a key goal of his papacy: healing a rift between the two feuding branches of Christianity that dates back nearly a millennium. Benedict XVI and Bartholomew I prayed together at the patriarchal church of St George before holding private talks.
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/ 28 November 2006
Pope Benedict XVI began a delicate mission to Turkey on Tuesday, trading conciliatory gestures with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as both sought to calm the storm unleashed when the pontiff appeared to link Islam to violence. The pope, in a striking reversal of opinion, said he backed Turkey’s bid to join the European Union.