MPs back personal carbon credits
BBC - 26/05/2008

WESTMINSTER - Ministers should go ahead with the idea of PERSONAL "CARBON CREDITS" to meet emissions targets, MPs have said. The Environmental Audit Committee said the scheme would be more effective than taxes for cutting carbon emissions.

Titanic search a cover for submarine mission
telegraph.co.uk - 26/05/2008

USA - A mission to discover the wreck of the Titanic was actually a cover-story for examining the remains of two Cold War nuclear submarines, the man who located the liner has revealed.

Lafontaine's Left shakes up German politics
reuters.com - 26/05/2008

COTTBUS, GERMANY - Few politicians in Germany have quite as much momentum these days as Oskar Lafontaine and the populist leader of the rising Left party is making the most of it.

American Farmers Put Down Roots in Brazil
usnews.com - 25/05/2008

LUIS EDUARDO MAGALHAES, BRAZIL - Leaving the U.S. Midwest, they find affordable land and a productive climate on a "new frontier"

Shell CEO says record oil not due to shortage
uk.reuters.com - 25/05/2008

LONDON - Oil prices at a record high above $135 a barrel are rising due to market sentiment rather than a shortage of supply, Royal Dutch Shell's chief executive said on Thursday.

McCreevy: Hard to sell the Lisbon Treaty to the Irish
Euobserver - 25/05/2008

DUBLIN - In an interview with EUobserver, Irish EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy notes that there is a lack of "energy" among Irish voters in the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty.

Senior MEPs block expenses transparency
ft.com - 25/05/2008

BRUSSELS - The FT reports that in a secret meeting, MEPs have blocked moves to force them to account for how they spend their expenses.

More militant Tibetan groups
uk.reuters.com - 25/05/2008

DHARAMSALA, INDIA - A restless young generation of Tibetans is warning that a failure to achieve Tibet's independence is creating a deep well of frustration, offering space for more radical groups in coming years.

Fingerprint Registry in Housing Bill
openmarket.org - 25/05/2008

USA - Fingerprints are considered to be among the most personal of information, and fingerprint databases created and proposed in the name of national security have generated much debate.

Jupiter's Three Red Spots
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov - 25/05/2008

JUPITER - For about 300 years Jupiter's banded atmosphere has shown a remarkable feature to telescopic viewers, a large swirling storm system known as The Great Red Spot.

Floods displace 15,000 in Chile
reuters.com - 25/05/2008

SANTIAGO - Heavy rains and flooding that killed five people and displaced thousands in south-central Chile have collapsed road and rail bridges, closed the world's largest underground copper mine and left many in the capital without drinking water, the government said on Friday.

Fortune-tellers targetted in new Consumer Protection Regulations
business.timesonline.co.uk - 25/05/2008

UK - The fortune-tellers, at least, must have seen it coming. The biggest overhaul of consumer laws for 40 years takes effect on Monday, tightening controls on everything from door-to-door salesmen to children's advertising.

US car dealer in free gun offer
BBC - 25/05/2008

MISSOURI, USA - A car dealership in the United States is offering a free handgun with every vehicle sold. Max Motors in Butler, Missouri, says sales have quadrupled since the start of the offer.

Superbugs killing record numbers of patients
telegraph.co.uk - 23/05/2008

UK - Record number of patients are dying in hospitals and nursing homes after contracting superbugs, MRSA and Clostridium difficile, new figures show.

New Russian leader visits China
BBC - 23/05/2008

CHINA - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has arrived in Beijing as he continues his first official foreign tour.

“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Just what is an Apostle?

Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”

The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!

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Listen to Me, You who know righteousness, You people in whose heart is My Law: …I have put My words in your mouth, I have covered you with the shadow of My hand, That I may plant the heavens, Lay the foundations of the earth, and say to Zion, “you are My people” (Isaiah 51:7,16)