For a lot of Filipinos, dogs are food, not friends. The illegal dog meat trade continues to thrive in the Philippines with nearly 300,000 canines butchered each year, the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the Philippine National Police said Tuesday on the heels of an operation against dog meat traders in Pangasinan.
Pope Benedict XVI fired a 52-year-old Slovak bishop for apparently mismanaging his diocese in a rare show of papal power over bishops that could have implications for U.S. sex abuse cases.
The start of haute couture week in Paris is a must on any self-respecting fashionista’s calendar. But day one of the French capital’s fall-winter 2012 shows was different: It’s what’s called a fashion event.
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will pay $3 billion in fines — the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history — for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs that are taken by millions of people.
Even for infants born full-term, a little more time in the womb may matter.
What better way to bond with your gal pals than by getting a smudge-proof manicure-pedicure and solving your bad-hair day with a quick blow-dry—both treatments with a glass of wine in hand?
“There is something sun-like within us,” the great psychiatrist and founder of the school of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, once said. He was talking about how the sun begins to rise at dawn, to reach its summit at noon, and then to begin its descent.
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