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With the countdown clock to World Youth Day down to the small double digits, reports are emerging of gay groups being questioned by police about their activities and growing disquiet over emergency WYD laws.


Australians are apparently a godless lot, according to a survey published by the Bertlesman Group. This isn't a good thing, apparently, as we're trying to present our best face to the thousands of Catholic pilgrims due for World Youth Day.
There'll be a plethora of Pope-age in Sydney during World Youth Day (err, Week).

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Ice found on Mars

20 June 2008 | 12:55 - By Miguel D'Souza

The NASA Phoenix Mars Lander probe has confirmed a finding that is set to change current thinking on the red planet.


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It's the mystery that has police in Canada's British Columbia wracking their brains for leads on. All they have is six feet, none related, all variously shod in socks, shoes and all washed ashore on islands in the Strait of Georgia.

Police in Canada's British Columbia reckon they have a theory to explain why six 'disarticulated' feet have washed ashore on that region's coastline.

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Cricket's switch-hit turns fans inside out

18 June 2008 | 12:07 - By Miguel D'Souza

It's a stroke (literally) of brilliance by England cricketer Kevin Pietersen that has got cricket bloggers talking about whether a batsman changing his stance - literally going from being a left to right hander - is legal or not.


Cricket fans are abuzz about the MCC's decision to decree England batting ace Kevin Pietersen's remarkable switch-hit legal.
"MCC believes that the 'switch-hit' stroke is exciting for the game of cricket. Indeed, the stroke conforms to the Laws of Cricket and will not be legislated against", read the MCC's statement overnight.

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The term 'the morality of altitude' was coined to apply to bomber pilots who released their payloads on victims they couldn't see, without ever feeling any sense of remorse or empathy for the people whose lives, families, homes and property they destroyed.


A new initiative by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of the journal Science could well give the term a completely opposite and far more positive meaning.
A project launched by the AAAS aims to use satellite imagery to provide evidence of human rights atrocities that have been denied by the governments that perpetrate them.

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