I, Lee Jay Walker, Tokyo correspondent for The Seoul Times, was asked to publish this letter from the Pakistan Christian Congress (PCC). I would like to comment that many Christians in Pakistan have suffered deeply, including brutal killings of Christians, women being raped, and other terrible crimes against humanity.

Therefore, please read this important petition by the Pakistan Christia...

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In Shakespeare’s day, a play’s genre was easy to define—if it ended with a wedding, it was a comedy. If it began with one, a tragedy. But what label fits a play with the sudden matrimony of strangers at its center?

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US indie band MGMT has demanded compensation from French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party for using one of their hits as a campaign soundtrack without permission, their lawyer said Wednesday.

MGMT's lawyer took action last week against Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement for using the hugely popular track Kids at its national congress in January, during a field trip by the party le...

Early Saturday morning, Februrary 14, like the majority of Buffalonians, I was watching the news about the crash of Flight 3407. I had received phone calls not only from friends and family on the West Coast but from the county of my national origin, Iran. Somehow it did not feel good each time I said, “We are okay, thank God.” The crash of yet another plane came too close to home this time ...

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A Long Island, N.Y., surgeon's bid to seek $1.5 million for the kidney he donated to his estranged wife "not only runs afoul" of public policy, but may expose him to criminal prosecution, a Nassau County, N.Y., court referee ruled Wednesday.

"At its core, the defendant's claim inappropriately equates human organs with commodities," Referee A. Jeffrey Grob wrote in Batista v. Batista, Jr...

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Federal authorities brought charges in two major securities fraud investigations Wednesday, saying one scheme fell apart because of publicity about the Bernard Madoff scandal.

In that case, New Jersey fund manager James Nicholson, 42, was accused of defrauding investors of as much as $900 million since 2004.

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Full page spreads in the national newspapers have announced the opening of Vancouver's Shangri-La Hotel. They started me thinking about imaginary places we like to, you know, imagine. The repeated phrase "you know" annoys me sufficiently that I use it here to test its effect on, you know, you. Listening to some speeches and lect...

The former boyfriend of Jenny Deaves claims he was used as a decoy so she could continue a secret incest relationship with her father.

Shayne Farrell, who lived with Ms Deaves and her father John Deaves in South Australia for several months, said the pair continued to share a "weird bond" despite announcing their split in New Idea magazine last November.

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On Feb. 19 the Jackson Township Council sponsored a seminar to discuss the topic that has been on the mind of many people as they deal with the nation's significant economic recession. A group of about 50 residents turned out for the meeting.

"We know that everybody is running into difficult times; as we watch the news every day, it gets worse and worse," council President Mike Kafton sa...