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Worried about its dwindling numbers, the Roman Catholic Church in southern India is exhorting its flock to have more children, with some parishes offering free schooling, medical care and even cash bonuses for large families.

HARARE (AP):Anglican bishops are receiving death threats and one worshipper who refused to follow an excommunicated leader was killed, according to a document viewed by The Associated Press yesterday that the worldwide head of the Anglican church gave...

RAMALLAH (AP):Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners are refusing food to pressure authorities into providing better conditions in their most defiant protest in years, spreading through Israeli prisons and beyond.The hunger strike has rolled through most...

YANGON (AP):Myanmar's newly elected civilian government announced yesterday that it will release more than 6,300 prisoners in an amnesty that could help patch up the country's human-rights record and normalise relations with Western nations...

The Associated Press news agency is reporting that the death certificate for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs shows he died of respiratory arrest linked to the spread of his pancreatic cancer.

Cairo, Egypt (AP): Egypt's Coptic church blasted authorities yesterday for allowing repeated attacks on Christians with impunity as the death toll from a night of rioting rose to 26, most of them Christians who were trying to stage a peaceful protest in...

MILWAUKEE (AP):Prosecutors have filed two homicide counts against a Milwaukee woman they accuse of abducting another woman and cutting a full-term fetus out of her womb, killing both of them.Thirty-three-year-old Annette Morales-Rodriguez faces one...

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP):Connecticut officials are not giving up on requiring Internet sellers to collect state sales taxes, despite signs from online retailer Amazon.com that it has no immediate plans to abide by the state's new Internet tax...

CAIRO (AP):Fierce clashes erupted yesterday between Christians protesting a recent attack on a church and the Egyptian military, leaving at least 19 people dead and more than 150 injured, health ministry officials said....

LONDON (AP):Britain's defence secretary apologised yesterday for blurring the lines between his professional role and personal friendships, trying to soften criticism he is expected to face in Parliament today.Liam Fox denied any wrongdoing but admitted...

Jurors hearing the involuntary manslaughter case against Michael Jackson's doctor on Friday heard the physician begin to describe his relationship with the singer in detail for the first time.

A message purportedly from deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi yesterday slammed the legitimacy of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council (NTC).