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Pope Francis tells Benedict: 'We're brothers'

Pope Francis tells Benedict: 'We're brothers'


Pope Francis tells Benedict: 'We're brothers'

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 10:35 AM PDT

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets Pope emeritus Benedict XVI in Castel Gandolfo Saturday, March 23, 2013. Pope Francis has traveled to Castel Gandolfo to have lunch with his predecessor Benedict XVI in a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church. The Vatican said the two popes embraced on the helipad. In the chapel where they prayed together, Benedict offered Francis the traditional kneeler used by the pope. Francis refused to take it alone, saying "We're brothers," and the two prayed together on the same one. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, HO)Pope Francis traveled Saturday south of Rome to have lunch with his "brother" and predecessor Benedict XVI, a historic and potentially problematic melding of the papacies that has never before confronted the Catholic Church.


U.S. Senate narrowly passes first budget in four years

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 08:06 AM PDT

The U.S. Capitol Building is pictured in WashingtonThe Senate on Saturday narrowly passed its first federal budget in four years, a move that will usher in a relative lull in Washington's fiscal wars until an anticipated summer showdown over raising the debt ceiling.


Syria rebels take control of strategic southern base

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 08:04 AM PDT

Free Syrian Army fighters carry their weapons as they sit in attention during the declaration of the formation of Al-Liwaa brigade in BinnishRebels seized an air defense base near Syria's strategic southern international highway on Saturday, activists said, a gain that could bolster opposition fighters trying to secure supply routes to Damascus.


Greece: 2 hurt, 11 escape in prison shooting

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 06:36 AM PDT

Kostas Tassios, a coffee shop owner, points at a bullet hole in the window his coffee shop near the city of Trikala, central Greece, on Saturday, March 23, 2013. At least 11 inmates escaped from a Greek prison after gunmen brazenly attacked the site with grenades and automatic weapons, kicking off a nightlong standoff between police and prisoners. Two guards were injured, one of them seriously. The attack was the latest dramatic incident at Greek prisons, which are suffering from serious overcrowding and staff shortages as the country struggles through financial crisis and a recession that started in late 2008.(AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)At least 11 inmates escaped from a Greek prison after gunmen brazenly attacked the site with grenades and automatic weapons, kicking off a nightlong standoff between police and prisoners. Two guards were injured, one of them seriously.


Indian actors face trial over killing of rare deer

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:24 AM PDT

FILE – In this July 17, 2007 file photo, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan poses during the soundtrack release of the film "Marigold" in Mumbai, India. An Indian court will try five Bollywood actors, including Khan, for allegedly killing two rare deer in a western India wildlife preserve 14 years ago. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh, File)An Indian court will try five Bollywood actors, including action hero Salman Khan, for allegedly killing two rare deer in a western India wildlife preserve 14 years ago.


Egypt officials negotiating to free 2 tourists

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 08:08 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 photo an Egyptian guide takes a break after climbing to the summit of Mount St. Catherine in south Sinai, Egypt. Egyptian intelligence officials say they are negotiating with Bedouin gunmen to free two tourists, an Israeli man and Norwegian woman, kidnapped Friday, March 22, 2013 along a main road in Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa )Egyptian intelligence officials say they are negotiating with Bedouin gunmen to free two tourists kidnapped along a main road in the south of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.


What happens if Cyprus collapses?

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:34 AM PDT

Protesters hold an EU flag during a protest outside the Cypriot parliament, Friday, March 22, 2013. Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches Friday to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country urgently needs to avoid bankruptcy within days. The European Union, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank and the country's leaders are trying to find a deal to secure a 10 billion euro ($13 billion) loan for Cyprus and stave off a failure of its banking system.


W.Va. delegate fighting to reinstate death penalty

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 06:37 AM PDT

This image provided by West Virginia Legislative Services shows Del. John Overington, R-Berkley, In Charleston, W. Va. The 2013 legislative session marks the 27th consecutive year that Overington has introduced a bill to reinstate capital punishment in West Virginia. (AP Photo/West Virginia Legislative Services)With neighboring Maryland about to become the sixth state in as many years to abolish the death penalty, one West Virginia delegate is on a quixotic quest to resume executions in his state for the first time in a half-century.


China punishes North Korea as US asks for more

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 03:12 AM PDT

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Chinese paramilitary policemen build a fence near a concrete marker depicting the North Korean and Chinese national flags with the words "China North Korea Border" at a crossing in the Chinese border town of Tumen in eastern China's Jilin province. China is trying to punish ally North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests, stepping up inspections of North Korean-bound cargo in a calibrated effort to send a message of Chinese pique without further provoking a testy Pyongyang government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)China is trying to punish ally North Korea for its nuclear and missile tests, stepping up inspections of North Korean-bound cargo ...


Jeff Bezos' salvaged rocket engines reach shore after ocean recovery

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 06:43 AM PDT

Jeff Bezos' Salvaged Apollo Rocket Engines Reach Shore After Ocean RecoveryReturning to Cape Canaveral for the first time since they were used to launch a giant Saturn V moon rocket, the recovered parts from two colossal F-1 engines arrived on shore after more than 40 years spent lost at sea.


Northern Irish police defuse car bomb near G8 venue

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 07:01 AM PDT

BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Irish police defused a bomb in a car on Saturday close to where G8 leaders will meet at a summit in June and said that the device was likely to have been intended for a police station nearby. Army bomb disposal experts defused the device after a security operation that lasted almost 36 hours in the county Fermanagh town of Enniskillen. The Group of Eight leaders meet just outside the town in three months' time. ...

In Moscow, new Chinese leader Xi warns against meddling

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 05:48 AM PDT

Chinese President Xi claps during his address to students at the Moscow State Institute of International RelationsChinese President Xi Jinping warned against foreign interference in the affairs of other nations during a speech in Moscow on Saturday ...


Push for Assad's ouster in Syria weakened

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 02:54 AM PDT

Assad vows to rid Syria of Muslim extremistsFoes of Syrian President Bashar Assad are distracted by fragmentation within their ranks, foreign meddling and new finger-pointing over chemical weapons as the regime more firmly entrenches itself ...


Congolese warlord arrives at war crimes court jail

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 05:47 AM PDT

(Blank Headline Received)A Congolese warlord known as "the Terminator" who is accused of murder, rape and other atrocities arrived at the International Criminal Court's jail in the Netherlands early on Saturday ...


Boyle: Queen volunteered for Olympics Bond spoof

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 01:35 AM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is shown round the carriage of a parked train at Baker Street underground station in London, for a visit to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, Wednesday, March 20, 2013. The Queen made her first public engagement in more than a week Wednesday after cancellations following her hospitalization for a stomach bug. The British head of state joined her husband Prince Philip and their granddaughter-in-law, Kate, for the event marking the 150th anniversary of London's sprawling subway system, affectionately known as the Tube. (AP Photo/Chris Radburn, Pool)Queen Elizabeth II needed no convincing to appear in a James Bond-themed skit during the opening ceremony of the London Olympics — in fact, she volunteered, according to the show's director.


Police arrest 2 teens in Ga. baby killing

Posted: 23 Mar 2013 09:54 AM PDT

This photo provided Friday, March 22, 2013 by Sherry West, of Brunswick, Ga., shows her son Antonio Santiago celebrating his first Christmas in December of 2012. West says a teenager trying to rob her at gunpoint Thursday asked "Do you want me to kill your baby?" before he fatally shot 13-month-old Antonio in the head. West was walking with Antonio in his stroller near their home in coastal Brunswick. The mother was shot in the leg and says another bullet grazed her ear. Police are combing school records and canvassing neighborhoods as they search for the gunman and a young accomplice a day after the slaying Thursday. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Sherry West)BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) — The mother of a baby gunned down in his stroller says she has no doubt a teenage suspect jailed in the slaying is the man who killed her 13-month-old son, but family members say he wasn't anywhere near the scene.


Statue of Liberty security post being moved

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 07:26 PM PDT

The Statue of Liberty is seen from this aerial view after Liberty Island was hit by Hurricane SandyThe National Park Service is relocating security operations for the statue over the objections of the New York Police Department.


More people have access to cell phones than toilets

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 06:08 PM PDT

A new United Nations study has found that more people around the world have access to a cellphone than to a working toilet. The study's numbers claim that of the world's estimated 7 billion people, 6 billion have access to mobile phones. However, only 4.5 billion have access to a toilet. At a press conference [...]

Highly illogical: IRS says 'Star Trek' parody a mistake

Posted: 22 Mar 2013 07:12 PM PDT

This video image from an Internal Revenue Service video shows an IRS employee portraying Mr. Spock a scene from a video parodying the TV show "Star Trek" that was made for a 2010 IRS training and leadership conference. The agency says the video, filmed at an agency studio in Maryland, along with a training video that parodied the TV show "Gilligan's Island," cost about $60,000. The "Star Trek" video accounted for most of the money. The IRS on Friday, March 22, 2013 said it was a mistake for employees to make the six-minute video. (AP Photo/IRS)A training video made by the federal agency apparently lacks training value.


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