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(Vatican Radio) North Korea confirmed on Friday it tested a fifth nuclear device in defiance of a UN resolution. The nuclear test came on the same day as the country’s National Day, celebrating the founding of the current regime.Listen to Devin Watkins’ report: North Korea’s state run news agency said the country carried out ‘a higher level’ nuclear test explosion, just hours after US president Barack Obama departed from his tour of Asia.Pyongyang said the test had been of a miniaturized nuclear warhead capable of being mounted on a ballistic missile. That claim is unconfirmed.What is known is that the test came on the north’s National Day honoring the founding of the current regime.Also, the US Geological Survey reported a 5.3-magnitude ‘artificial’ earthquake in the same area where four previous nuclear tests were carried out.The explosion appears to have been on the surface in the northeast of the country. Previous test...
London, England, Sep 9, 2016 / 12:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- There are severe ethical shortcomings in a British doctor's proposal to help unconscious patients die so their organs can be used for transplants, one critic has said.“The killing of an innocent human being is always wrong – even when a patient, such as the hypothetical patient discussed here, asks that he be put to death,” Edward Furton, Ph.D., an ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, told CNA.“Killing patients so that their organs can be used by others is equally bad.”He suggested the argument showed the weakness of a worldview that sees no inherent value in the human body.“If one approaches moral questions from the perspective of atheism or agnosticism, and then invokes a utilitarian calculus, the human body only has value as an object of use by others,” said Furton, who is also editor-in-chief of The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.Dr. Zoe Fritz, a clinical...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Bill Cosby has long preached the gospel of personal responsibility to fellow blacks, irritating those who fault racism for holding the community back....
NOME, Alaska (AP) -- The giant luxury cruise liner was anchored just off Nome, too hulking to use the Bering Sea community's docks on its inaugural visit....
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the children lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying. They are the latest victims of Boko Haram's Islamic insurgency....
CHAMONIX, France (AP) -- Dozens of tourists, including a 10-year-old child, were safely rescued Friday after being trapped in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps overnight....
A stampede and crush killed more than 2,400 pilgrims at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia last year. Some of the survivors recount their experience:...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Marching with thousands of other pilgrims at last year's hajj in Saudi Arabia, 23-year-old Sobia Noor of Pakistan felt the crowd get tighter and the air grow thicker in the scorching heat. Suddenly, there was shouting and crying along the narrow street bordered by tall metal barriers....
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Republican activists are trying to "make America great again" - from inside a Jewish settlement deep in the West Bank....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- House conservatives have wasted no time since returning from their summer recess showing just how tough they can make life for Speaker Paul Ryan - and for Democrat Hillary Clinton if she becomes president....
