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President Offers Dialogue in Web Video to Iranians

22 hours 20 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 20) -- President Barack Obama issued an online video to the Iranian people today as they celebrate the Persian new year, saying the United States wants them to have more cultural exchanges for ...

Photo Sparks New Search in Natalee Holloway Case

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(March 20) -- Authorities in Aruba said today they would launch a new search in the Natalee Holloway case after a Pennsylvania couple came forward with an underwater photo that they believe may show ...

British Airways Flights Canceled as Crews Strike

19 hours 13 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 20) -- Thousands of British Airways flights have been canceled amid a three-day strike by cabin crew that's throwing a kink into vacation plans for tens of thousands of travelers beginning the ...

How a Coloratura Soprano Saved the Metropolitan Opera

4 hours 10 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 20) -- Two weeks ago, the Metropolitan Opera in New York found itself in a predicament. Ten days before the opening night of "Hamlet," a French opera that had not been performed there for 103 ...

Pope Expresses 'Shame and Remorse' to Irish Catholics

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(March 20) -- Pope Benedict XVI sent an impassioned and unprecedented pastoral letter to the people of Ireland Saturday, apologizing for decades of clerical sexual abuse but placing the blame squarel ...

Magnitude-5.6 Quake Rattles Cuba

9 hours 19 minutes ago |AP

HAVANA (March 20) -- A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were r ...

World's Most Useful Tree Purifies Water, Too

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(March 20) -- A widely cultivated and useful tropical tree may provide a solution to the diminishing supply of safe drinking water in many parts of the world, a researcher says. The seeds of the Mori ...

Atom Smasher Smashes Energy Record

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(March 19) -- From broken down to record breaking, the Large Hadron Collider -- the world's largest, most expensive particle accelerator -- just achieved yet another milestone on the quest to discove ...

Psychiatrist: Pope's Archdiocese Ignored Abuse Warnings

1 day 17 hours ago |AOL News

(March 19) -- A German archdiocese led by the future Pope Benedict XVI ignored repeated warnings in the early 1980s from a psychiatrist treating a pedophile priest that his patient should not be allo ...

Blogs Descend on Gitmo Deal Report

1 day 12 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 19) -- President Barack Obama is reportedly closer than ever to delivering on a key campaign promise: closing the Guantanamo Bay prison. But he may be forced to compromise on one of his key na ...

'Tsunami' of Abuse Cases Hits Pope's Old Archdiocese

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(March 19) -- Pope Benedict XVI today signed a long-awaited pastoral letter about "healing and repentance" for clerical sex abuse in Ireland just as a similar scandal grew even more explosive in the ...

Can a Pope Quit? Yes, but Don't Bet on It

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(March 19) -- Recent revelations about Pope Benedict XVI's conduct regarding a German priest who had molested numerous young boys have prompted some critics to call for the pope's resignation. In 198 ...