This is petition is for Jared, to make sure that child killers or child abusers get the maximum sentence available in their state - Death Penalty or Life withOUT parole.

The 3,000-year-old pottery shard with five lines of text was found during excavations of the Elah Fortress, the oldest known biblical-period fortress, which dates to the tenth century B.C.

Entertaining peek at unusual information about presidents' wives - mental_floss "FIRSTS" list.

Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria, said there is no doubt that the single sheet was written by the composer.

Cologne sculptor Gunter Demnig makes and mounts commemorative stones for the individual victims deported and killed by the Nazi regime. They're small, personalized "stumbling stones" fitted flat into the pavement to - figuratively - "trip up" passersby.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 11 (IPS) - There are still too few women on the lists of candidates for Brazil's municipal elections in October -- another example of the distance between political parties and society which has led to the loss of credibility

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is deeply shocked and condemns in the strongest terms the killing of five Pakistani women, including two minors, who were buried alive for having decided to marry men of their choice.

A woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the chance for parole for burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave after fighting with her boyfriend.

Announcing: The 'Miss Sister 2008' pageant. Times must be changing!

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