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Sudan’s leader, UN chief face off at Arab summit
The UN chief confronted Sudan’s president on Monday with demands to allow the return of aid groups to Darfur — and was met with a defiant response.
On the trail of the Holy Grail
In The Da Vinci Code, the Holy Grail is neither an object nor an objective. It symbolises an earthshaking secret: Mary Magdalene bore a child with Jesus. The mega-selling book —…
On condoms, ‘the Vatican is like a submarine’
A Vatican study on whether it could permit condoms to battle HIV/Aids has a very narrow scope: married Roman Catholic couples in which one partner has the virus. But its…
Police seek Christian aid to fight voodoo rites
If she runs away from her life of prostitution, her parents will become sick and die. At least that’s what this Nigerian woman believes. The threatened curse, she claims, is part…
Iraqi Kurds want to double share of oil revenues
Iraqi Kurds’ dreams for a post-Saddam Iraq include doubling their share of oil revenues, the speaker of the regional parliament said on Monday.