Church rift flares after gay vote

Church rift flares after gay vote

Church rift flares after gay vote

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:20 AM PST

A diocese in Los Angeles has elected only the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican Church.


World concerns about climate change dwindle - survey

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:48 AM PST

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - World concern about climate change has fallen in the past two years, according to an opinion poll on Sunday, the eve of 190-nation talks in Copenhagen meant to agree a U.N. deal to fight global warming.


H1N1 deaths hit 100 in Japan - Kyodo

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:48 AM PST

TOKYO (Reuters) - The number of deaths from the H1N1 swine flu virus has hit 100 in Japan, Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday, as the pandemic continues to spread around the world.


Philippines seizes more ammo in the south

Posted: 06 Dec 2009 12:48 AM PST

MANILA (Reuters) - Soldiers using sniffer dogs and shovels dug up rifles, machineguns and hundreds of crates of ammunition at a farm owned by a powerful political clan linked to a massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines, officials said on Sunday.


Bolivia's Morales seen cruising to re-election

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:12 PM PST

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales, whose leftist economic policies have made him broadly popular with the poor but angered business leaders, is expected to win re-election on Sunday, allowing him to expand state control over the economy.


Sudan arrests men over Darfur peacekeeper killing

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:12 PM PST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan on Sunday said it had arrested a number of men suspected of killing three Rwandan peacekeepers in an ambush in Darfur, the first of two deadly attacks on the mission.


Second funeral for Chilean activist

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:27 PM PST

A funeral has been held in the Chilean capital for Victor Jara, a folk singer and political activist who became a symbol of opposition to the military government of General Augusto Pinochet.


Sarah Palin in the belly of the beast: Washington

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 10:43 PM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican firebrand Sarah Palin invaded the city she loves to hate on Saturday and rubbed shoulders with the herd of journalists she usually holds in disdain.


Medvedev: Fire starter to be punished

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:18 PM PST

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for the maximum punishment for those to blame for a nightclub fire in which 109 people died.


'Top Mafia bosses' held in Italy

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 09:22 PM PST

Two of Italy's biggest Mafia suspects have been arrested by anti-organised crime police units.


New habitat for gorilla orphans

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 11:46 AM PST

Two orphaned baby mountain gorillas are settling into their new home at Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.


Renewables to supply one-third China's energy by 2050

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:47 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's renewable energy strategy through 2050 envisions renewable energy making up one-third of its energy consumption by then, the China Daily said, as the upcoming Copenhagen conference on climate change highlights the world's dependence on fossil fuels.


Hermit North Korea faces U.N. test over human rights

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:47 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - Paranoid and reclusive North Korea will try to defend what groups and governments see as a systemic abuse of human rights in the country when it faces unprecedented questioning at the United Nations on Monday.


FACTBOX - North Korea's suspected human rights abuses

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:47 PM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - The following is a list of suspected human rights abuses carried out by North Korea, according to a U.S. State Department report released earlier this year.


Turkish commanders testify in plot probe

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:12 PM PST

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Police arrested two navy officers on Saturday on suspicion of conspiring to overthrow Turkey's Islamist-rooted government and three retired military commanders testified in an investigation into a separate plot.


Uighurs flee China, seek asylum in Cambodia -exile group

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:12 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - A group of Uighurs who have fled China are seeking asylum through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an overseas activist group said, adding that other would-be refugees had been captured while fleeing China after ethnic riots in their homeland in July.


LA Episcopal Diocese elects openly lesbian bishop

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 08:12 PM PST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Los Angeles' Episcopal Diocese elected an openly lesbian priest as assistant bishop on Saturday, a move likely to stoke more tensions in the global Anglican community over the divisive issue of gay clergy.


Genes may protect some people from TB infection

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:45 PM PST

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - A study involving 128 South African families has identified genetic traits that may protect some people from tuberculosis in a finding that could help lead to a new TB vaccine, scientists said on Saturday.


Protesters rally against 9/11 trial set for New York

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:12 PM PST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Demonstrators angered by the Obama administration's move to prosecute the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks in civilian court on U.S. soil called on Saturday for the trial to be moved to a military tribunal.


Britain's queen writes to editors over paparazzi

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 07:12 PM PST

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth has written to newspaper and magazine editors over the issue of paparazzi photographers intruding on the royal family's privacy, Buckingham Palace said on Sunday.


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