There are now more Muslims than Catholics in the world according to a statement from the Vatican made on Sunday. Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, who compiled the Vatican’s newly-released 2008 yearbook of statistics, said Muslims made up 19.2 percent of the world’s population and Catholics 17.4 percent.
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Osama bin Laden’s contention that Pope Benedict XVI had played a role in a worldwide campaign against Islam is “baseless,” the Vatican said Thursday.

When Benedict led a Holy Thursday ceremony in Rome’s St. John in Lateran Basilica in the evening, there was no noticeable step-up in already heavy Vatican security for the pontiff’s public appearances.

The Italian Interior Ministry’s anti-terrorism committee planned to analyze bin Laden’s message in a meeting Friday, the ANSA news agency reported. Continue Reading »

Serbia’s President Boris Tadic demanded that police find out who is behind calls to boycott Albanian-owned bakeries in response to Kosovo’s declaration of independence. I’m guessing that there is a new militant group, the Veggies, that are vegans out to stop the use of milk products in the bakeries. Since there’s no proof of this, it’s only based on current speculation from the bloodthirsty-ness that vegans must endure. Continue Reading »

Large quantities of inmates at Afghanistan’s main jail, which holds Taliban prisoners, are reportedly on hunger strike with some having sewn their mouths shut, a parliamentarian told AFP Tuesday. For years the Taliban men have been trying to get their women to stop talking, it appears they finally have turned into the women they oppressed.

Afghan media said the strike began after guards arrested visitors to the Pul-i-Charki prison following the escape of some inmates. Authorities have posted extra security outside the prison on the outskirts of the capital. Continue Reading »

A recently released study on sexual habits in France showed than women are becoming as aggressive, and in some cases more aggressive in their pursuit of sex. The two sociologists who compiled the research said that the French had fewer sexual taboos and inhibitions than ever before.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Criminal charges have been filed against a company that prosecutors say imported and distributed nearly 90,000 tubes of Chinese toothpaste containing a poisonous substance and a wholesaler that supplied local stores with the tubes, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo announced Thursday.

Selective Imports Corp. sold the toothpaste containing diethylene glycol to distributors nationwide between December 2005 and May 2007, prosecutors said. Vernon Sales Inc. is accused of buying some of the tubes and reselling them to Los Angeles stores. Continue Reading »

Three human feet are washing ashore on remote west coast Canadian beaches over the last six months. The last foot washed ashore on Valdez Island, and all have been found on separate islands along the Strait of Georgia.
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German soldiers are overweight, smoke too much and do not engage in enough sports, according to a report published Tuesday by the parliamentary commissioner for the military. For people aged 18-29 military personnel are in worse condition than their civilian counterparts, with 40 per cent of soldiers overweight versus 35 per cent in the general population.
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French actress Marion Cotillard who one an Oscar for playing Edith Piaf in the French film “La Vie En Rose,” cited the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 as a government conspiracy, sayiung: “I tend to believe in the conspiracy theory.” Not content with declaring the September 11th attacks as being a government conspiracy the actress went on to declare her belief that the moon landings was likely a hoax. Continue Reading »

Sure polar bears look cute when you play with them and they don’t grow up to be kittens. The once cuddly bear now weighs over 315 pounds and has six inch claws and apparently an appetite for small children.
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