Submitted by admin on Wed, 2007-02-28 09:00. ::
If you've been wondering when the Antichrist will arrive on Earth, you can wonder no more. Jose Luis de Jesus, the leader of thousands of followers in the "Creciendo en Gracia" church has the number 666 tattooed on his arm and has declared himself to be the Antichrist who has come to "replace Jesus on Earth." But, according to de Jesus, this is actually a good thing, as the number 666 and the ...
Submitted by admin on Wed, 2007-02-28 09:00. ::
TOKYO: Japan plans to bring together senior Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian officials next month in the Asian power's latest bid at Middle East peacemaking, officials said yesterday. "I hope the meeting will contribute to building mutual trust and provide opportunities for communication," Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters. "Peace is important for the stability in the Middle East and ...
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-02-27 09:00. ::
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The Fukuoka High Court on Monday upheld a life sentence for a 24-year-old Chinese man who was 19 when he killed two people and wounded another in robberies in 2001 and 2002.
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty and appealed an April 2005 verdict by the Oita District Court. That court ruled the defendant did not intend to kill one of his victims and therefore did not wa...
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-02-27 09:00. ::
Mr Yang chanced upon the trade in dead bodies when he paid 12,000 yuan (£800) for a mentally handicapped woman whose family hoped to marry her off for a price. The trade in women as wives is a common practice in rural China and a woman may be sold several times by intermediaries before meeting her eventual husband. [Ghost brides are murdered to give dead bachelors a wife in the afterlife, Time...
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-02-27 09:00. ::
Lawsuit now alleges he misused funds for international teacher recruiting
Yiping Wan came to Kennesaw State University six years ago with a goal of increasing the suburban college's connection to China.
As dean of the college of education, the scholar chaired an international consortium on Asian studies. He led faculty trips to his homeland and pushed to increase the number of fore...
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-02-27 09:00. ::
Roger Federer struggled to a first-round victory at the Dubai Open on Monday, the day he broke Jimmy Connors' record of consecutive weeks at No. 1.
Federer, who broke Connors' 30-year-old mark with his 161st week at the top of the ATP rankings, defeated Kristian Pless, 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 6-3, in the United Arab Emirates in his first match since winning the Australian Open.
Federer'...
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-02-27 09:00. ::
Ullrich, 33, of Germany, who won the Tour in 1997 and was runner-up five times, announced his retirement eight months after being implicated in a Spanish doping scandal.
"I am ending my active career," Ullrich said. "It's not easy, but you have to listen to the voice inside you that the time is right. It was a good time and I would do it the same way again, even the bad times."
He ...
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2007-02-27 09:00. ::
BANGKOK: Laos has found its first suspected human case of bird flu in a 15-year-old girl from an area where the killer virus broke out in poultry two weeks ago, official media said yesterday. The girl went down with headaches and aching limbs, as well as a runny nose and cough on February 15, Health Minister Ponmek Dalalay was quoted as saying in the Vientiane Times, monitored by Reuters in Ban...
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2007-02-26 09:00. ::
Slavery is thriving in Britain despite its legal abolition spearheaded by William Wilberforce 200 years ago, according to a report released today.
Men, women and children are being exploited by around 10,000 gangmasters working in lucrative industries ranging from sex to agriculture, construction, service and domestic work.
Migrant workers, from Europe, Africa, Asia and South Americ...
Submitted by admin on Mon, 2007-02-26 09:00. ::
About a week ago I sat in a theater in the school library, along with a hundred-odd other students, to watch a culturally-significant movie about or from Asia. This is a conversation that I heard repeated at least twice on my way out of the theater...
Person 1: "Oh, wow, the nuclear fallout from Hiroshima was pretty bad. I feel sorry for all of those people."
Person 2: "Yeah, I feel...
