On Sunday, a mass was held at St. Peter`s Square in Vatican City to mark a year since the passing of "the Polish pope", John Paul II, who for nearly 27 years sat on the throne of St. Peter as head of the Roman Catholic church. John Paul II died a year ago Sunday, after a long bout with Parkinson`s disease.

Public and private businesses are going to give a different kind of gift this year during the holiday season. With the after-effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita still affecting the lives of many Americans, with images of the earthquake in Pakistan, Community Voice Mail, a grassroots charity, is going to donate money.

The United States, South Korea and Japan threatened serious consequences if North Korea test launched a missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland, even as several members of the former Clinton administration and even a former U.S. presidential candidate called for President George W. Bush to launch a military strike at the missile site in the reclusive, Stalinist nation.

According to one member of Parliament in London, Labour`s Tom Harris, there needs to be specific laws forbidding "denial of service attacks" where floods of emails are used to wreck computer systems. The goal is to get cyber crime treated seriously by the court system of Britain.

The Irish Aviation Authority has seen yet another plane diversion in less than one week, and this time it was an Aer Lingus flight from Chicago to Dublin which was forced to make an emergency landing in northern Canada on April 16. Last week, a flight from London to the western city of Galway was diverted to Glasgow Airport in Scotland due to a bomb hoax.

It would be reasonable for Dallas Cowboys center Andre Gurode to try and avoid Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth.

Ever think about sports and gambling? Sure you have. With the baseball season slowly approaching the Fall Classic, online casino odds are being posted on which teams will make it to the post-season safely, which will be the wild cards, and which will be left in the season?s dugout.

Puntland President General Addeh Museh announced in a surprise move that his semiautonomous region in northeastern Somalia will adopt the rule of Islamic law

Marchex, Inc. has signed a contextual advertising agreements with CurtCo Media and ITtoolbox.

The pressure to stay in Russia did not affect Evgeni Malkin who signed his first NHL contract ever making him a Pittsburgh Penguins player. No further negotiations or elaborate tricks were needed to bring Malkin to Pittsburgh. The 20-year old hokey player signed the contract he wanted, and will play for the team that he wants to play for.

Business companies are now able to create professional looking presentations easily and quickly. A marketing firm now offers a simple and affordable way of creating very powerful business presentations in a short amount of time.

With training camp opening yesterday, who are the players least likely to stay with their current team by the start of the season? The number one candidate would have to be Paul Pierce. Even though Danny Ainge insists that there is no truth to the rumors that Pierce is on the trading block, numerous GM?s claim that he is.

Todd Haley, passing games coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, is suing McDonalds on behalf of his wife and au pair after the two claimed that they ate from a salad containing a dead rat and became violently ill after doing so

In an attempt to increase the ability of birds to avoid this deadly obstacle, Duncraft`s Living with Nature catalog is now offering reflective window alert decals, hawk decals, and feather guards. "Birds see much better than humans," expert says.

TemplateMonster, a leading website templates provider, announces the results of a successful trade-in campaign, a program whereby website authors who wished to upgrade their sites did so without delay, at low cost. The campaign began on September 22, 2004 and ended on October 3, 2004.