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He never had a chance.
From the moment he appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s on April 19, 2005, to greet the faithful, Benedict XVI faced an insurmountable problem: He was not John Paul II.
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Benedict’s decision to resign the papacy is being blamed on his age – nearly 86 – and ... |
Iran Aseman Airlines flight 3704 from Tehran to Yasuj, Iran, impacted a mountainside in the Mount Dena range to the northeast of Yasuj Airport. All on board (60 passengers, two flight crew members, two cabin crew members and two security officers) were killed.
The flight departed Mehrabad Airport at 08:05 hours loc... |
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An update to this story was published on Monday morning at the link below.
This story has been updated to add comments from Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni.
CHICOPEE - A 15-year-old boy shot in the abdomen Saturday has died and a 42-year-old homeowner has been arrested in his death.
Jeffery Lovell... |
For Vice President Mike Pence, the message was unmistakable and the banner that carried it unmissable.
"Make America Gay Again," the rainbow banner reads.
Neighbors of the home near Aspen where Pence and his wife, Karen Sue, are staying posted the message Wednesday or Thursday on a stone pillar that sits at the... |
George Michael produced plenty of chart-topping songs, but he also played a big part in making one of television's most popular recurring segments.
Five years ago, the pop star was the first celebrity to appear with comedian James Corden as part of a "Carpool Karaoke" sketch. Corden is now the host of The Late Late... |
Donald Trump’s ad begins with a shot of President Obama and Hillary Clinton. Then comes a U.S. battleship launching a cruise-missile strike. From there it moves swiftly through an explosive montage: The suspects in the recent California terrorist attack. Shadowy figures racing across the U.S.-Mexico border. Islamic Sta... |
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials say three Americans who were abducted in Baghdad last month have been freed.
The three officials, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the press, said Tuesday that the Americans were freed by the Iraqi intelligence service.
They say the three are... |
Image copyright AFP Image caption North Korea has carried out nuclear tests in 2006, 2009 and 2013, despite international condemnation
Activity has increased at North Korea's nuclear test site, South Korea says, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama to the region.
The military was "currently detecting a... |
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President Obama has authorized a small number of U.S. special operations forces to deploy to northern Syria, according to a senior administration official.
The group of fewer than 50 troops will “help coordinate local ground forces and coalition efforts” to fight Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) forces, the o... |
The damp coffee grounds sitting alone and forgotten in the basket of your coffee maker have the potential to save the world. (You forgot to clean the coffee maker, didn't you? Go ahead. We'll be here when you get back.)
Yes, those coffee grounds, the ones that you so callously tossed in the trash (or composted, or ... |
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's first annual trade deficit in more than 30 years calls into question how much longer the country can rely on exports to help finance a huge public debt without having to turn to fickle foreign investors.
The aftermath of the March earthquake raised fuel import costs while slowing global gr... |
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Google’s search engine was once characterized by its simplicity — both its search results and ads were blue links against a white background. No longer.
On Wednesday, Google confirmed that it was testing new ads with images atop search results. They are a major departure from its earlier advertising and f... |
Image copyright AP Image caption Hundreds of people dragged the suspect through the streets of Dimapur
Police in north-eastern India say they have charged 42 people in connection with the lynching of a suspected rapist who was taken from prison by a mob.
The man, identified as Syed Sharif Khan, was stripped nak... |
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While a federal court takes the next step in resolving Deflategate, a courtroom sketch emerged Wednesday of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, and the duo's assorted legal counsel.
The sketch, by artist Jane Rosenberg, lit up the Internet for its ... |
Cops: Woman, 81, breaks hip when intoxicated son falls on her
Robert Golba, 55, has been charged with felony violation of an order of protection, Riverside police said today in a news release.
An intoxicated Riverside man fell on his 81-year-old mother during an argument last week, breaking her hip in three pla... |
TORONTO — Todd Frazier finally got some peace of mind on Thursday, as the clearly distraught Yankee spoke for five minutes with the father of the young girl he accidentally struck with a 105-mph foul ball a day earlier, landing her in a local hospital.
“He said she’s doing OK,” Frazier said before the Yankees took ... |
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Ethiopia will begin generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant, the government said.
The sale of 7.1 billion birr ($367 million) of bonds over the past three years to domestic investors, has contributed to the 27 billion birr spent so far on the 75.5 bi... |
It is time to give up on the Emmys. Really, truly, once and for all. The media and the nation must stop paying attention. The television industry could show its solidarity by surrendering all the statuettes, heaving them into a yawning crucible and smelting them. The liquid scrap metal could be recast into one Prius-si... |
Last August, Anne Rice posted a call to arms — on Facebook, of course — warning that political correctness was going to bring on literary end times: banned books, destroyed authors, “a new era of censorship.” “We must stand up for fiction as a place where transgressive behavior and ideas can be explored,” she proclaime... |
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HOMEWOOD, Ala. (WIAT) -- The story of a dedicated man who was willing to walk all night to be on tim... |
BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-led coalition warplanes bombed oil installations and other facilities in territory controlled by Islamic State militants in eastern Syria on Friday, taking aim for a second consecutive day at a key source of financing that has swelled the extremist group's coffers, activists said.
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After his 1902 trip to Yemen, scholar and naturalist Wilhelm Hein returned with a variety of plants and animals, which he donated to the Vienna Museum. One of these specimens, a shark, sat unnoticed for more than 80 years. In 1985 it was identified as the first (and only known) specimen of Carcharhinus leiodon, the smo... |
In the wake of lobbying by President Obama and Senate Democratic leaders, the Senate Thursday defeated legislation to speed up construction of a U-S.-Canadian oil pipeline.
The White House victory came after the president started personally calling Democratic senators Wednesday night. The vote underscored the exten... |
A smile is the one thing Jamie Snider took with her wherever she went. The 30-year-old flashed it to make friends, and used it to comfort them when they were down."This is a good one of her and her brother," said her friend Larina Campanile as she spotted a photo of a smiling Snider. "Little goofballs. But that was her... |
According to the World Health Organization, tobacco use is a cause of death for more than 5.4 million people worldwide every year. But a new review published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that by tripling the taxes on tobacco globally, 200 million tobacco deaths could be avoided by 2025.
Authors o... |
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Vice President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters this morning to welcome back returning furloughed employees.
With muffins in hand, the vice president personally greeted workers. "Welcome back everybody," he said, as he stretched out hi... |
WASHINGTON—Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is the leading candidate to be President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, people familiar with the matter said, a move that would elevate a well-known national figure to become the U.S.’s chief diplomat.
Mr. Trump’s aides have also considered former... |
A number of US supermarket chains pledged on Wednesday not to sell genetically modified salmon, in a sign of growing public concern about engineered foods on the dinner table.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in the final stages of deciding whether to allow GM salmon on to the market. If approved, AquaB... |
“The things we are seeing and hearing about Mayor Rob Ford are truly disturbing,” the grim-faced premier said in a statement to reporters at a hastily called news conference.
Councillors, who meet Friday to discuss Ford’s fate, would have to formally request such action — and Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hud... |
Winter Park resident, Ginny Odom, became the first female driver for UPS to drive more than 4 million miles over 40 years without an accidents.
Winter Park resident Ginny Odom became the first female driver for UPS to drive more than 4 million miles over 40 years without any accidents.
Odom reached this safe dr... |
The girlfriend of the man whose 13-year-old son died of a suspected heroin overdose from his father’s stash received a break in court, according to Dayton Municipal Court records.
Tina M. Davis, 37, tested positive for drugs and violated her probation from a 2016 child endangerment case but only served about a mont... |
KABUL (Reuters) - A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit northern Afghanistan and Pakistan late on Friday, two months after more than 300 people were killed by a quake in the same mountainous region.
Strong shocks were felt in the Afghan capital Kabul at 11:14 p.m. local time (1914 GMT) and in the Pakistani capital Islamab... |
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An MP has been spotted watching porn on his mobile phone during a political reform debate in the Brazilian parliament.
Joao Rodrigues, a memb... |
It's not just the dress that's been handed down. It's the love."
The moment Bethlehem native Abigail Kingston got engaged, she knew she wanted to wear her mother's wedding gown.
But trying it on wasn't as simple as going to her mother's closet. She had to track it down first.
The 120-year-old family heirloo... |
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