Shades of the fight over Kennewick Man. Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, are outraged because administration officials have moved to give two 10,000-year-old skeletons to a Native American tribe. The local Kumeyaay tribe has asked for the skeletons, which were discovered in 1976. University of California president Mark Yudof [...]

Concern is growing that Wahhabist Muslims from Sudan and Nigeria are infiltrating and transforming Islam in Cameroon. Professor of Islamic religion Father Krzysztof Zielenda spoke about the problem.
He explained that “it is moving from the traditional Islam of fraternities, to an Islam marked by the Wahhabite movement,” a Muslim sect founded in Arabia in [...]

Screech, mascot of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles hockey team, has been kidnapped.
Club officials reported Screech missing after a worker found a supply room door unlocked Tuesday. It showed signs of forced entry. Despite a frantic search, no one could find the $5,000 costume used to pump up the crowd during games. It was last [...]

Because, as we all know, women never spend more than they earn.
That inane claim was made by a co-host of a morning TV talk show in Britain.

Pope Benedict XVI has ruffled the feathers of Western public health officials for saying that condom distribution exacerbates the problem of AIDS—even though scientific studies back the pope’s position.
And I thought public health officials are interested in helping people to avoid getting sick.
The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) in a 2003 study indicated that condoms [...]