China’s former security chief Zhou Yongkang has been charged with bribery, abuse of power and disclosing state secrets, making him the most senior official being prosecuted in decades.
Zhou is the most prominent victim of President Xi Jinping’s much-publicised anti-corruption drive, which has targeted high-level “tigers” as well as low-level “flies”.
“The defendant Zhou Yongkang… took advantage of his posts to seek gains for others and illegally took huge property and assets from others, abused his power, causing huge losses to public property...
Friday, April 3, 2015
Garissa attack: Bodies still on ground; victims face down, shot in back of head
The ambulances come and go through the gates of Garissa University College, as townspeople strain from a distance to see what's going on.
Soldiers shoo and drag them away, but they keep coming back.
In this small town, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) from the Somali border, nothing much usually happens.
But not so Thursday, when Al-Shabaab militants raided the Kenyan campus, leaving 147 dead.
A day later, there are still bodies on the school grounds waiting to be transported off.
A medic said most of the victims had been shot from behind,...
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Jerusalem seminary defaced with anti-Christian slurs, torched
A
seminary belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church was torched and defaced
in Jerusalem on Thursday, and police suspect it may be the work of
radical right wing Israelis.
A day earlier, a mosque in the West Bank was set on fire.
In both cases, the buildings were defaced with anti-Christian and anti-Arab slurs.
In
the Wednesday incident, words denigrating Jesus and the phrase
"redemption of Zion" were written on the wall in Hebrew, police
spokeswoman Luba Samri said.
"There is
no room for such deplorable activity in Jerusalem," Jerusalem...
Boko Haram + ISIS = Marriage from Hell
For
sheer cruelty, they are well matched. They also share an apocalyptic
"end-of-days" vision. Now there are signs that Boko Haram -- the most
feared group in West Africa -- may be edging toward a formal pledge of
allegiance to the self-declared Caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi.
Observers of Boko
Haram, which has inflicted years of terror on northern Nigeria, note
that its actions in the last six months have frequently mimicked...
Actually, that's not in the Bible
Finding Jesus: Faith. Fact. Forgery. 01:00
Science and archaeology offer insights into ancient artifacts that could be linked to Jesus Christ. "Finding Jesus: Fact. Faith. Forgery," premieres Sunday Night, March 1 at 9pm ET/PT on CNN.
(SWB)NFL
legend Mike Ditka was giving a news conference one day after being
fired as the coach of the Chicago Bears when he decided to quote the
Bible.
"Scripture tells you that
all things shall pass," a choked-up Ditka said after leading his team to
only five wins during the previous season. "This,...
