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Catholic leader rejects celibacy-abuse link (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:36 PM PDT

The Most Reverend Vincent Nichols arrives at Westminster Cathedral in central London in 2009. There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - There is no statistical connection between child abuse and celibacy, England's top Catholic cleric said Friday, ahead of the publication of a papal letter to the Irish faithful over an abuse scandal.

Irish abuse group wants Pope to apologise, admit cover-up (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 04:27 PM PDT

Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience on March 17, at St Peter's square at The Vatican. The pope should apologise to Irish sex abuse victims and admit the Catholic church abused its power and deliberately covered up the activities of paedophile priests, a leading victims' group said Friday.(AFP/Andreas Solaro)AFP - The pope should apologise to Irish sex abuse victims and admit the Catholic church abused its power and deliberately covered up the activities of paedophile priests, a leading victims' group said Friday.

Is that fare? Steep fee to ride with UK's Brown (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:49 PM PDT

AP - Britain's national debt is the key theme in the country's looming national election — but it's now news organizations, not just the country's government, racking up huge bills to meet the cost of covering the campaign.

No European financial protectionism: Barnier (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:48 PM PDT

EU commissioner for Internal Market and Services French Michel Barnier, seen here in Brussells, sought on Friday to calm US fears of discrimination over European financial services reforms that would regulate hedge funds.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)AFP - EU financial services commissioner Michel Barnier sought on Friday to calm US fears of discrimination over European financial services reforms that would regulate hedge funds.

Clinton says agreement with Russia near on nukes (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:17 PM PDT

From left, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton talk to each other posing for a family photo after the news conferences in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2010. Clinton is participating in a meeting of the quartet of Middle East peace mediators - the U.S., Russia, the EU and the United Nations.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday that American and Russian negotiators are "on the brink" of agreement on a nuclear arms reduction treaty.

Albanian stalemate can hit EU ambitions: official (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:06 PM PDT

EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele (R) speaks during a joint press conference in Pristina. Albania must resolve a political impasse on a contested parliamentary election as it could torpedo its aim of joining the European Union, Fuele said Friday.(AFP/File/Armend Nimani)AFP - Albania must resolve a political impasse on a contested parliamentary election as it could torpedo its aim of joining the European Union, EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said Friday.

BA strike to go ahead after talks collapse (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 03:01 PM PDT

Two British Airways jets are pictured at London's Heathrow airport. Last-ditch talks aimed at preventing a strike by some 12,000 British Airways cabin crew have collapsed, leaving thousands of passengers facing chaos within hours.(AFP/File/Max Nash)AFP - Last-ditch talks aimed at preventing a strike by some 12,000 BA cabin crew collapsed Friday, leaving thousands of travellers facing chaos from midnight (0000 GMT).

Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholic world (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:39 PM PDT

FILE - The Dec. 30, 2009 file photo shows Pope Benedict XVI during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at The Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Munich said Friday, March 19, 2010 it is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis. Last week, the diocese confirmed the case of a priest who was transferred in 1980 to Munich. That came after three sets of parents alleged he had abused their children in the northwestern city of Essen, the diocese there said. The priest underwent therapy, but then returned to work with youngsters. He was convicted of abuse in 1986. Pope Benedict, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was Archbishop of Munich and Freising at the time of the priest's transfer from Essen to Munich. The diocese has said Ratzinger knew about the transfer but not about the priest's continued work in Bavarian congregations after he assumed his duties at the Vatican. Erwin Wild, then spokesman of the diocese's council of priests, said he and his colleagues were not informed by Ratzinger that the priest was an offender, which he thinks was wrong. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)AP - Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here — a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups.

Turkish president wins international relations prize (AFP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Turkish President Abdullah Gul, seen here in February 2010, has won this year's prestigious Chatham House prize for improving international relations, the British foreign policy think-tank announced Friday.(AFP/File/Indranil Mukherjee)AFP - Turkish President Abdullah Gul has won this year's prestigious Chatham House prize for improving international relations, the British foreign policy think-tank announced Friday.

EU Commission calls for European loans for Greece (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 01:00 PM PDT

AP - The European Commission urged Germany and other eurozone governments Friday to put up a package of government-to-government loans to ease Greece's financial plight and end weeks of financial turmoil and speculation.

World diplomats urge resumption of Mideast talks (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 12:50 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seen during talks in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 19, 2010. Clinton is participating in a meeting of the Quartet of Middle East peace mediators â€AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Friday that the United States and Israel have found a way around the worst disagreement the two allies have faced in years while international diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state.

Italian town commemorates World War II tragedy (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 11:44 AM PDT

People take part take part in a memorial ceremony in the grottos of Cisterna di Latina, near Rome where the town's population lived for monthsduring the war in 1944, Friday, March 19, 2010. On Friday, the anniversary of the roundup in 1944, this town between Anzio and Rome held its annual commemoration of the bloody events of World War II with ceremonies held beside a monument to victims of all wars and school children visiting the grottoes where their grandparents took shelter from the bombing. Felice Paliani, who was 13 at the time, said he was taken in as a mascot by the Americans when Cisterna was finally liberated. 'We survived because we were united,' he said. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - For American forces fighting their way north to Rome, it was the site of a heroic but hopeless stand, where only eight men out of two Ranger battalions escaped German troops.

Ex-Serb general: hero or traitor? (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:48 AM PDT

AP - Is Vlado Trifunovic a traitor, war criminal or hero? It all depends on whom you ask in the war-scarred Balkans.

Prince Harry hopes to join troops on Pole trek (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 10:09 AM PDT

Britain's Prince Harry tries a harness for pulling a sledge, while visiting a group of military servicemen, who were wounded in the line of duty and subsequently lost limbs, in London, Friday March 19, 2010. The servicemen are training for an unaided trip to the North Pole scheduled to take place in 2011. The Prince met some of the wounded service personnel who will take part in the expedition, and learned about their training programme and the challenges they will face during the world record attempt.(AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, pool)AP - Prince Harry says he hopes to join a group of disabled soldiers in a charity expedition to the North Pole to raise money for wounded troops.

Dog DNA helps convict man who used pet as weapon (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:19 AM PDT

AP - A man who used his dog to attack a teenager whom he then stabbed to death was sentenced Friday to at least 24 years in jail for murder.

Munich diocese faces "tsunami" of abuse claims (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 09:07 AM PDT

Elke Huemmeler, the head of the new Munich diocese sexual abuse prevention, is seen in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, March 19, 2010. Huemmeler estimates there are about 120 cases on the record to date, around 100 of them at the nearby Ettal monastery boarding school, run by Benedictine monks. She stresses, however, her role is not to deal with the old cases, but help set up the prevention program. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)AP - Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis, the head of its new sex-abuse task force said Friday.

Dirty cop completes jail term in Spain (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:41 AM PDT

AP - A former Spanish police chief convicted of embezzling the equivalent of euro10 million ($14 million) became a free man Friday after serving 15 years in prison, and immediately faced — and dodged — the question on many Spaniards' minds: where'd he stash the money?

Dutch fuming at retired US general's gays comment (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:17 AM PDT

Retired US General John Sheehan listens during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, DC on Thursday. Sheehan on Thursday said Dutch UN troops defending Srebrenica in the Bosnian war failed to prevent the 1995 genocide partly because their ranks included openly gay soldiers.(AFP/Getty Images/Alex Wong)AP - The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as "irresponsible" a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe's worst massacre since World War II.

Rome to display ancient Greek silverware (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 08:10 AM PDT

AP - Ancient Greek artworks — pieces of silverware with gold detail dating to the third century B.C. — are going on display in Rome after being returned by the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Talks between BA, union break down (AP)

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 07:20 AM PDT

AP - Talks between British Airways and the union representing its cabin crew have collapsed.

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