The Guardian:
My four-year-old says he wants to be baptised, but my ex-husband feels he's too young to decide. Should I nip this in the bud or embrace our son's spirituality?The dilemma When our sons were born, my ex and I decided to allow (Read More)
The Guardian:
In a desperate attempt to secure its electoral base, the government is shamefully wooing religious extremistsAs every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Brita (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people…Peter Carey – novelistKamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition a (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
YERINGTON, Nev. -- Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.But she can look through the window from her kitchen t (Read More)
BBC News Player | World:
Dozens of Somali-Americans have been disappearing from the Minneapolis area, amid fears they are being recruited by extremists. (Read More)
The Blog:
The endless tangle of questions about bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and has obsessively fascinated, if not (Read More)
Washington Post:
KIEV, UKRAINE -- One night at the height of the panic over what people here call the California flu, as 24-hour news stations tracked a rising death toll and politicians speculated about a mystery lung plague, Ukraine's prim (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Robert Crumb's straight retelling of Genesis lacks his trademark humourIt's the old story. Milton tried to retell the Bible and discovered that Satan was a more interesting character than God, and now, three centuries later, (Read More)
The Guardian:
Police rule out stranger attack but reject honour killing theory despite misgivings by Asian women's groupsEvery day, staff at Sunrise Radio were greeted with a smile from Geeta Aulakh, the receptionist who had dreamed as a y (Read More)
SF Gate:
Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery Ashton is Europe's first foreign policy chief, the international representative of half a billion people, with a 7 billion euro ($10.5 billion) budget and a salary of more than (Read More)
The Guardian:
BFI Southbank to exhibit paintings and sketches of 'Freudian ballet' created for the film by Hein HeckrothThe Red Shoes, Powell and Pressburger's 1948 masterpiece, is one of the most visually spectacular movies in British his (Read More)
Gawker:
Having covered breast healthcare issues all week, the papers move south to other ladyparts today. But forget all that, buy the tabloids, and read about a foot model cast out into the street (almost) for her princess-and-paupe (Read More)
SFGate: C.W. Nevius:
The mystery continues. The shadowy character who has been threatening local residents who put up lost pet flyers is still prowling the streets, but he's pushing his luck. In some San Francisco neighborhoods, pet owners who pu (Read More)
Reuters: Lifestyle:
TAIPEI (Reuters Life!) - Jade Mountain, northeast Asia's highest peak and Taiwan's sole finalist for a "New 7 Wonders of the World" award, remains an alluring mystery due to its remoteness and tough permitting rules.
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CNN:
For all the intrigue that's passed through this medieval city, from Roman battles to papal wars, Perugia is now in the throes of a modern mystery. (Read More)
Boing Boing:
It's actually quite pretty (again, relatively speaking), but this slug is most likely an Arion rufus, a species that's native to Europe, but has been found in British Columbia and is apparently now also at large in Ontario. H (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless a (Read More)
India Times:
The probe into LeT operative David Coleman Headley's visit to several Indian cities is now trying to zero in on a mystery woman who had allegedly been in touch with Headley while he was in Delhi and Mumbai. (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
From Goldfrapp to Badly Drawn Boy, from Karen O to Nick Cave, more and more big names are lining up to write music for films. What makes the process so appealing?'When you're writing a song, it's like you're the director, scr (Read More)