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Pope on 2018: forget life's useless baggage, work for peace
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Monday recommended jettisoning life's “useless baggage” in 2018, including what he called “empty chatter” and banal consumerism, and focusing instead on building a peaceful and welcoming world, particularly for refugees and migrants.
Ratchaburi struggles to keep the faith
News, Nauvarat Suksamran, Published on 06/01/2018
» A small Catholic community nestled in the orchards of Ratchaburi is making plans to patch up the worn social fabric evident in a steady drop in the number of churchgoers.
Artificial intelligence
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 12/01/2018
» There are Vatican scholars. Then there are novelists who research the Vatican library to give the plots of their imaginative religious stories the aura of authenticity. It turns out that the lay writers usually pen more interesting books. Less authentic, yet more believable.
Tip of the iceberg
News, Alan Dawson, Published on 14/01/2018
» Myanmar's government and entirely out-of-touch military soiled themselves again, over the Rohingya issue of course.
Pope stuns Chile with victim-blaming comment
Published on 19/01/2018
» SANTIAGO: Pope Francis has accused victims of Chile's most notorious paedophile of slander, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that has cost the Catholic Church its credibility in the country.
Legendary chef Paul Bocuse dies
Published on 20/01/2018
» PARIS: Paul Bocuse, the master chef who defined French cuisine for nearly half a century and put it on tables around the world, has died at 91.
The innocent isle
B Magazine, Published on 21/01/2018
» A country just beginning to realise its tourism potential can be a wonderful place to visit. You can enjoy its natural delights free of the scams and overcrowding associated with more famous destinations that have had their charms tainted by the very industry that first put them on the map.
Chinese break key barrier by cloning monkeys
Published on 25/01/2018
» LONDON: Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans.
Chinese clone monkeys, but no humans yet
Gary Boyle, Published on 25/01/2018
» LONDON: Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans.
At least 41 dead in Korea hospital blaze
AFP, Published on 26/01/2018
» SEOUL: A huge fire tore through a South Korean hospital on Friday killing at least 37 people, the government said, in the country's worst blaze for a decade.