Militia Threatens To Close Airport In Somali Capital

(CNN) -- Islamist fighters battling for control of Somalia have threatened to close Mogadishu's only airport, warning all airlines to stop flights into the Somali capital by early Tuesday.

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Inside The Terror Plot That 'Rivaled 9/11'

What really happened in the case that led airlines to bans liquids and gels.

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U.S.: Letters detail al Qaeda infighting

Appeal Denied In Crosses Lawsuit

LAS CRUCES -- Appeals were denied Friday in two lawsuits that argued the city of Las Cruces and the public schools violated the U.S. Constitution by using Christian crosses on city logos and buildings.

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Charles Darwin To Receive Apology From The Church Of England For Rejecting Evolution

The Church of England is to apologise to Charles Darwin for its initial rejection of his theories, nearly 150 years after he published his most famous work.

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Humanists sue as exam agency blocks GCSE

Pope Condemns 'Pagan' Love Of Money, Power

PARIS - Pope Benedict XVI condemned unbridled "pagan" passion for power, possessions and money as a modern-day plague Saturday as he led more than a quarter of a million Catholics in an outdoor Mass in Paris.

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Benedict XVI faces tough decisions as CEO of vast empire

Radical Muslims Warn Of Another 9/11

Muslim extremists have held a meeting at the heart of the area where the liquid bombers lived in which they warned of a British September 11.

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Taliban Attacks Kill Afghan Doctors, Police

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The Taliban has claimed responsibility for two separate attacks in Afghanistan over the weekend that killed doctors and police officers.

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New Delhi Blasts Death Toll Rises To 21

NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The death toll in a string of explosions that ripped through busy marketplaces in India's capital has risen to 21, police said Sunday.

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Five Blasts Put Delhi on High Alert

Remote Brainwaves Predict Future 'Eureka' Moment

ScienceDaily -- Real-world problems come in two broad flavors: those requiring sequential reasoning and those requiring transformative reasoning: a break from past thinking and restructuring followed by an insight (also known as Eureka or "Aha!"), which is a process by which a problem solver abruptly, through a quantum leap of understanding with no conscious forewarning, moves from a state of not knowing how to solve a problem to a state of knowing how to solve it.

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'Big Bang' Experiment Starts Well

Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Big Bang.

They have now fired two beams of particles called protons around the 27km-long tunnel which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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The Origins of the Universe: A Crash Course

Sleek Probe To Map Earth's Gravity

ScienceDaily -- The European Space Agency is launching a new satellite to map variations in the Earth's gravity field with unprecedented accuracy. The satellite will give UK scientists vital information about ocean circulation and sea level change needed to improve climate forecast models.

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'Values Voter Summit' Tries To Push Churches Into Illegal Partisan Politicking, Says Americans United

The ADF, the nation's largest Religious Right legal group, is asking pastors to endorse or oppose candidates from the pulpit on Sept. 28 in violation of federal tax law.

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FFRF Files Motion to Delay Oral Arguments

Based on comments to the media by the Green Bay mayor indicating the city may adopt a policy to place only secular decorations at City Hall, the Freedom From Religion Foundation has asked the judge to delay oral arguments scheduled for Monday, Sept. 15, in its Green Bay nativity scene lawsuit.

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Chicago Here FFRF Comes!

Priest Accused Of Dealing Coke From Church

(CBS/ AP) A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory.

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62-Year-Old Woman Accused Of Burning Historic Church

MEDFORD, Mo. -- Authorities have arrested a 62-year-old Holden, Mo., woman in connection with a blaze that destroyed a 101-year-old Medford church.

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The suspect told Millstead that God had told her to hold church services at her house, Millstead said.

The suspect also told Millstead that God had told her to "get rid of all the bad people," Millstead said.

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Colorado Meatpacking Plant Lays Off 100 Muslim Workers

GREELEY, COLO. -- A meatpacking company Wednesday laid off about 100 Muslim immigrant workers who walked off the job last week in protest of the firm's refusal to give them time to pray during the holy month of Ramadan.

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UK's First Hindu School Opens

Krishna-Avanti Primary School, due to open in Camrose Avenue on Monday, has drawn criticism from religious and secular groups for its promotion of Hinduism over other faiths.

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Bahrain Teacher 'Insulted Islam'

MANAMA: An American woman was referred to the court yesterday by the Public Prosecution after being charged with insulting the Prophet Mohammed.

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Saudi OKs Killing "Immoral" TV Execs

(AP) Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV networks that broadcast immoral content.

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Car Bomb Kills 32 North Of Baghdad

(AP) A car bomb ripped through a crowded commercial district in a mainly Shiite town north of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 43, Iraqi officials said.

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Earlier Friday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a Shiite mosque farther north in Sinjar as worshippers left prayers at midday, killing two civilians and wounding 15, police chief Col. Awad Kahlil said.

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