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Raj Rajaratnam defense attacks star US trial witness
Rajaratnam's main lawyer, John Dowd, tersely asked Anil Kumar in cross-examination at the Manhattan federal court trial. "No," Kumar replied. Dowd said: "You did what you could to get out of jail." "Wrong," Kumar shot back. Kumar, a former McKinsey
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:11P
AV: Ed Miliband tells Labour rally 'electoral reform is good for voters'
Ed Miliband will make his strongest intervention yet in the referendum on the alternative vote (AV) when he addresses a Labour Yes rally on Wednesday, urging voters not to reduce the referendum to a verdict on Nick Clegg's broken promises.
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:10P
Judge finds ex-nurse guilty of aiding suicides online
Prosecutors said Melchert-Dinkel, of Faribault, Minn., was obsessed with suicide and hanging and sought out potential victims on the internet. When he found them, prosecutors said, he posed as a female nurse, feigned compassion and offered step-by-step
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:10P
11 take plea deals in Warm Sands sex sting
Eleven of the 14 men pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace or public lewd conduct during a pre-trial hearing Monday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. Both are misdemeanors that carry a sentence of three years probation and a total of $1084 in
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:10P
Spanish priest faces excommunication after claiming to have paid for an abortion
“Since according to the Code of Canon Law, cooperation in an abortion carries the penalty of latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication, the code directs that procedures must be followed to verify the facts, and therefore this administrative
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:09P
Angola: National Citizen Kills Himself in Kagimbi Locality
This was said to Angop on Tuesday by the local police commander, Jorge Balu "Sancara". The police officer said that the death resulted from a row between the couple. He said that the wife is on custody of the justice organs, while the local criminal
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:08P
Rob Bell: what SBC leaders are saying Baptist Press
While this is true, the Bible also teaches that justice and holiness are attributes as well. God's love is also a just love, and His justice is also a merciful justice. In other words, we must see God's love through His holiness and justice.
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:08P
Rob Bell book 'Love Wins' stirs controversy, denies core Christian beliefs
(BP)--Few events in recent memory have caused as much controversy and confusion among evangelicals as the latest book by well-known pastor Rob Bell, who in "Love Wins" denies hell and affirms universalism -- all the while claiming he has done neither.
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:08P
Turkey is a model only for Turkey, academic tells Istanbul summit
“[We must look at] how much Islamists have evolved in Turkey,” Oxford University academic Tariq Ramadan said Tuesday at the Leaders of Change Summit in Istanbul in reference to Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP.
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:07P
Army exemption lands Turkish gov't between vote, hard place
The main opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP's, draft to reorganize the mandatory military service in Turkey and issue a one-time paid exemption puts pressure on the ruling Justice and Develompent Party, or AKP, whose members have in the past
Updated: 03/15/2011 06:07P
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