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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- When Shaquille O'Neal was 10 years old, his father made a prediction....
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) -- Worries would seem to be few and far between in Bay St. Louis, a community of sandy beaches and monthly art walks that bounced back strong after 2005's Hurricane Katrina all but wiped it out. But the death of the city's well-respected police chief who shot himself in the chest after being suspended from duty has shaken many in the small Mississippi Gulf Coast community....
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple may not become an automaker, but it still wants to develop its own self-driving technology....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kanye West brought his "Saint Pablo Tour" to the small stage at a New York Fashion Week party, where he performed under smoky, dark lights, and ended his set with some outspoken words, per usual....
NEW DELHI (AP) -- A boiler exploded and triggered a fire at a packaging factory near Bangladesh's capital, leaving at least 12 people dead and 16 others injured on Saturday, officials said....
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran began building its second nuclear power plant with Russian help on Saturday, the first such project since last year's landmark nuclear deal with world powers, state TV reported....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's latest nuclear test, its most powerful to date, is a game-changer ... according to North Korea....
Vatican City, Sep 9, 2016 / 09:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During the general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis blessed a framed picture of Mother Angelica, the foundress of EWTN.“She's up there (in heaven) because she was a great woman,” the Holy Father said Sept. 7 to the EWTN employees who will now take the picture to their new offices to be opened in Cologne.The director of EWTN in Germany, Martin Rothweiler, commenting on the meeting with the Pope, said that he blessed the picture with “great cordiality and sympathetic feeling.”This is not the first time the Holy Father has referred to Mother Angelica.In February he sent her a blessing while traveling to Mexico; in March he blessed another picture of the religious, and in July he commented that she was “a holy woman” in a meeting with an American priest who currently lives in Rome.The beloved and well remembered religious died March 27 at 92 years of age.
Vatican City, Sep 9, 2016 / 09:04 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- During the general audience on Wednesday, Pope Francis blessed a framed picture of Mother Angelica, the foundress of EWTN.
“She's up there (in heaven) because she was a great woman,” the Holy Father said Sept. 7 to the EWTN employees who will now take the picture to their new offices to be opened in Cologne.
The director of EWTN in Germany, Martin Rothweiler, commenting on the meeting with the Pope, said that he blessed the picture with “great cordiality and sympathetic feeling.”
This is not the first time the Holy Father has referred to Mother Angelica.
In February he sent her a blessing while traveling to Mexico; in March he blessed another picture of the religious, and in July he commented that she was “a holy woman” in a meeting with an American priest who currently lives in Rome.
The beloved and well remembered religious died March 27 at 92 years of age.
BEIJING (AP) -- They have been praised by the leader of al-Qaida and wooed by the head of the Islamic State group. They have distinguished themselves on battlefields in Syria and are accused of carrying out a devastating bombing in Thailand....
NEW YORK (AP) -- For quite a while, Novak Djokovic's opponent in the U.S. Open semifinals, Gael Monfils, looked as if he didn't want to win - or even be there at all....
