On October 20, Pope Benedict XVI approved a plan wherein the Pope will issue an apostolic constitution, a form of papal decree, that will lead to the creation of "personal ordinariates" for Anglicans who convert to Rome.John Hooper of the UK Guardian reports: "More than half...
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The Shanaakht (Identity) Festival returned to Karachi on Monday. It is a three day festival organized by the Citizen's Archives of Pakistan. Each morning of the festival is reserved for visiting school children...
Women are becoming increasingly involved in the Latin American drug trade. Narco-wives as they have been dubbed are often the family of male drug dealers that become directly involved in the drug trade...
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"Women are paid less than half as much as men in some parts of the UK, according to statistics published today that reveal huge regional variations in the pay gap between male and female workers." Some recent reading had led me to believe that this was a situation that was...
"The number of Down's syndrome pregnancies has risen by more than 70% over the last 20 years, university researchers say. The sharp rise reflects the growing number of older women becoming pregnant, when there...
"The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts. These pairings are more likely to go the distance, particularly if neither has been divorced in the past, according to the Bath University team....
"A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened with rape. A single mother who blogged about "the daily ins and outs of being a mom" was threatened by a cyber-stalker who...
"The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. Over the past two years, the wages...
"The first successful human womb transplant could take place within two years, British scientists have said. London-based experts say they have worked out how to transplant a womb with a regular blood supply so it will last long enough to carry a pregnancy." Personally, I...
"Reported rapes have fallen to the lowest level in 20 years as DNA evidence helps send more rapists to prison and victims are more willing to work with police and prosecutors, victims advocates and crime researchers say."In some respects, I’m not entirely sure why I’m...
"More than 30,000 single mothers have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army, the most heavily deployed branch of the military, gives women just four months to stay stateside with their newborns before deploying to the war zone, leaving them little time to bond with or...
"According to a major just-released report (PDF) from the Guttmacher Institute, increased use of contraception has helped decrease unintended pregnancy worldwide. Abortions, ergo, are down as well, from an estimated 45.5 million procedures in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003. In...
"A lip gloss that comes with a date rape drug testing kit has been launched in the UK with plans to make it available in vending machines in bar and club toilets."When I first saw this headline, I thought that it was possibly satirical, possibly in poor taste, possibly even...