THE HOLY ROMAN ...
Here is the text of the address Benedict XVI gave today when he received a delegation from the Anti-Defamation League in audience.
Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations, delivered a talk Tuesday before the second committee of the 61st session of the General Assembly. The committee is studying the "Follow-up to and Implementation of the Outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development."
... EMPIRE OF THE GERMAN NATION
Chancellor Angela Merkel indicated on Thursday the government was looking for private German investors to buy a stake in European aerospace company EADS and help secure its future.
President Vladimir Putin was rebuffed in his desire for a bigger Russian stake in aerospace firm EADS. Bavarian state premier Edmund Stoiber said he had talked to Putin about EADS and told him there were limits to foreign investments in sensitive sectors. Stoiber's comments were a clear warning to Putin.
Moscow sees German-Russian cooperation as an engine for the eastward opening of Europe. In this Spiegel online interview, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov speaks about the energy business, concerted responses to international crises, and the conflict with the Georgian Republic.
Remember the European Union constitution? German Chancellor Angela Merkel does -- and she wants to revive it when she takes over the EU helm in January.
The conservative Austrian People’s Party (APP), led by Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel, suffered its biggest ever losses in national parliamentary elections held last Sunday.
MIDEAST/AFRICA/ASIA
A senior Jordanian government official has said the country plans to construct a fifth minaret on the Temple Mount in early 2007. The minaret, planned to be one of the tallest on the mount, will be the first to be built in more than 600 years.
Iraq's parliament approved a law that sets out the mechanics of forming federal regions, an issue Sunni minority leaders fear might tear the country apart in sectarian civil war.
POUNDING PERSIA
Prime minister discusses Iranian, North Korean nuclear threat to Israel with top security officials, says he backs plans to impose sanctions against Iran for rejecting compromise by western nations.
US Air Force General reveals details of possible US aerial offensive against Iran should diplomacy fail to solve dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambition; says 'doing it alone' is not an option for Israel.
Experts are urging the Bush administration to use patience and caution in its approach to Iran over its nuclear ambitions. The comments by former U.S. weapons inspector David Kay and others at an event on Capitol Hill Wednesday came as President Bush and other officials reiterated a call for Iran to end its uranium enrichment efforts and reach a peaceful and negotiated solution.
HOUSE OF ISRAEL
Bush has been vilified by the Left, but his harshest critics should be on the Right. One of the most momentous consequences of the Bush presidency is the destruction of the philosophical core of modern conservatism.
ECONOMY
The housing industry has underwritten consumer spending and GDP growth in the United States for the last five years. When the housing industry turns down...so do a lot of other things.
The world’s stockpiles of wheat are at their lowest level in more than a quarter century, according to the US Department of Agriculture, which on Thursday slashed its forecasts for global wheat and corn production.
MISC
It advances an agenda that reveals a hidden truth, even if the audience is unaware of it. As Tenney writes on his website, "'One Night With the King' preaches the Gospel in a subtle and nonconfrontational way. I call it 'sneaky' preaching."
Karim Aga Khan IV, descendant of the prophet Muhammad and spiritual leader of 20 million Ismaili Muslims, discusses the foundations of his faith, the controversy over the pope's recent statements about Islam and ways of preventing a global clash between religions.
We ask ourselves whether "work" and "ethic" even belong in the same sentence anymore.
Doctors tried everything they knew -- and failed. With standard techniques exhausted, Eddy turned to a treatment used by ancient Sumerian physicians, touted in the Talmud and praised by Hippocrates: honey. It is formed when bees swallow, digest and regurgitate nectar, and contains approximately 600 compounds, depending on the type of flower and bee.
