CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's new government won praise from the United Nations and human rights groups Wednesday for offering refugees permanent sanctuary rather than temporary visas.
Hannah was a happy 13-year-old until she became an 'emo' - part of a sinister teenage craze that romanticises death. Three months later she hanged herself. Here, her devastated mother tells other parents: No child is safe
Seven spiritual practices for bringing peace into your life and the world around you.The approach of personal transformation is the idea of the future for ending war. It depends on the only advantage that people of peace have over warmakers: sheer number
"He says authenticity is when what you think matches what you say and what you do. Unspoken is that this should also match what you are." A very well written article by Mark S. Smith
And there are, as always in America, the issues of race and class. Despite the gentrification that has taken place in some inner cities, and the plunge in national crime rates to levels not seen in decades, it will be hard to shake the longst........
Because food is so important to our survival, food preservation is one of the oldest technologies used by human beings. Even though we see and use many of these technologies every day, we often don't realize how interesting they are.
A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics' most enduring figures.
China has warned people wanting to donate to China's earthquake victims to guard against high-tech scams.
"My family was in the earthquake. Dad and mum urgently need money. Send whatever money you can. Deposit it in our friend's account," more...
Danish diplomats to Muslim countries are preparing themselves for another wave of anti-Danish protests after the government announced it would bar judges from wearing headscarves and similar religious or political symbols in courtrooms.
