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One-quarter of eligible undocumented youth have already applied for deferred deportation
Illegal immigration: Who's applying for Obama's 'DREAM Act' deferrals? (via The Christian Science Monitor) About one-quarter of the young undocumented immigrants eligible for the two-year deportation deferral established by President Obama have applied since the program started Aug. 15 Statistics released last week by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services…
Pope publishes final volume of Jesus biography
Pope Benedict XVI has published the third and last volume of his biography of Jesus Christ, a highly personal work written under the theologian pope’s own name of Joseph Ratzinger. The tome devoted to Jesus’s childhood is being published in nine languages with a first edition of around a million…
Israel drops leaflets warning Gaza residents to leave homes for ‘own safety’
Israel’s air force dropped leaflets across Gaza City on Tuesday urging people to evacuate their homes “immediately” amid fears the military was poised to launch a ground operation. “For your own safety, you are required to immediately evacuate your homes and move toward Gaza City centre,” the Arabic-language leaflet said,…
Foreigners work to save Spain’s Cava sparkling wine
Foreigners are throwing a lifeline to Catalonia’s famous bubbly, Cava, as it struggles against a Spanish recession and the risk of a boycott. Cava is a bit fruiter and about half the price of its posher French cousin champagne, with an average bottle going for about six euros ($8). It…
Dolphins arrive in Singapore after activists fail to block transfer from Philippines
A first batch of dolphins has arrived at a new oceanarium in Singapore after activists failed to have the animals’ transfer from the Philippines blocked, officials said Tuesday. A spokesman for the Marine Life Park, part of the Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) casino, told AFP that the bottlenose dolphins had…
UN: AIDS-related deaths fall worldwide
The number of AIDS-related deaths worldwide fell for the fifth year in a row last year, dropping 5.6 percent from 2010 and a full 24 percent compared to 2005, to 1.7 million people, the UN said Tuesday. The number of people living with HIV meanwhile rose slightly to 34 million…
U.S. home construction rose in October
US home construction rose again in October following September’s strong surge, the Commerce Department said Tuesday in a further sign of recovery in the housing market. Housing starts rose 3.6 percent from October, surprising analysts who had expected a fall after the big September jump. The government trimmed its September…
Nudists vow to defy anti-nudity law in San Francisco
Nudists vow to reject order from ‘bunch of uptight Americans’ to cover up but city officials cautiously optimistic ban will pass San Francisco nudists said on Monday they would continue to walk the streets naked regardless of a proposed law that would order them to cover up. City authorities are meeting…
Moody’s downgrades France’s credit rating
Moody’s credit rating agency has stripped France of its coveted AAA rating and declared that the country’s economic outlook remains “negative”. In what will be a severe blow to Socialist president François Hollande, the agency said it was reducing the country’s rating from AAA to AA1, claiming France’s ability for economic…
Genius or clown? Paris show weighs Dali legacy
Twirling his waxed moustache, Salvador Dali’s larger-than-life figure was beamed into millions of homes in the 1960s, his televised antics bringing huge fame, but burning his bridges with the art world. Now a major new Paris exhibit aims to reinstate that legacy, putting Dali’s media stunts — burying himself in…
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