The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego has reached a $198.125 million settlement with 144 people who were sexually abused by Catholic priests and church workers.
Wall Street plunged while bonds surged higher Friday after the government reported payrolls in August fell for the first time in four years rather than rising as had been expected. The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 250 points.
One of the world's most respected Deobandi scholars believes that aggressive military jihad should be waged by Muslims "to establish the supremacy of Islam" worldwide.
Muslim authorities, backed by Israeli police, barred WorldNetDaily journalist Aaron Klein from taking photographs of Muslim construction on the Temple Mount.
"The Church wants the freedom to announce the faith, not impose it," says Benedict XVI.
US President George W. Bush said Saturday that Osama bin Laden's first video appearance in three years is a reminder of "the dangerous world in which we live."
A paedophile was jailed yesterday for having underage sex with a teenage girl he met on the social networking website Facebox.
Four out of five Britons think the nation is in moral decline, according to a poll published yesterday.
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The seas around Britain are a wasteland compared with 100 years ago and at least a third of the sea must be closed to fishing if the profusion of fish we had then is to return, according to a new book.
Church leaders expressed fears last night that Christians could be sued under proposed new laws to protect gays from harassment.
SYDNEY Summit: Beijing has to send tougher warnings to the Taiwan authorities as the situation across the Taiwan Straits has entered a "highly dangerous period", President Hu Jintao told his US counterpart George W. Bush on Thursday.
A hardline Islamic movement, whose leading UK imam preaches anti-Semitism and calls on Muslims to "shed blood for Allah", is controlling almost half of Britain's mosques, a police report has found.
LONDON (Reuters) - For every day the world's money markets remain dysfunctional, the chances of the very kind of financial failure they fear rises.