SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict met four Australian victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Monday at a private Mass, an unscheduled meeting that underlined his weekend public apology and condemnation of sexual abuse in the Church.

Pope Benedict XVI greets World Youth Day volunteers during an event to thank them at the Domain in [...]

(Dikemas kini) PUTRAJAYA: Perkembangan terbaru dalam isu syor muzakarah Umno-PAS!
Hari ini, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi mengesahkan beliau telah pun mengadakan pertemuan dengan pemimpin-pemimpin PAS sebanyak tiga kali bagi membincangkan soal agama Islam dan perpaduan orang Melayu.
Ia turut disahkan oleh dua pemimpin kanan PAS masing-masing Presidennya, Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang dan Timbalannya, Nasharudin Mat Isa kepada mStar [...]

KOTA BAHARU: Mursyidul Am PAS, Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat mengingatkan pemimpin kanan parti, yang membuat pertemuan dengan pemimpin Umno, hanya boleh mengadakan pertemuan melibatkan perbincangan peribadi dan bukannya melibatkan isu politik kedua-dua parti.
Namun Menteri Besar Kelantan itu menyatakan kesediaannya untuk bertemu dengan pemimpin Umno untuk membincangkan isu agama atas kapasiti peribadi tetapi tidak [...]

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(Mutakhir) PUTRAJAYA: Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hadir di Ibu Pejabat Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) di sini pagi ini untuk kali kedua dalam seminggu untuk memberi keterangan berhubung laporan polis dibuatnya 1 Julai lalu.
Anwar telah memberi keterangan buat kali pertama Rabu lalu berhubung laporan polis yang dibuat terhadap Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Musa [...]

KUALA TERENGGANU: Menteri Besar Terengganu, Datuk Ahmad Said hari ini mempertahankan tindakan kerajaan negeri membeli 14 kereta Mercedes E200 Kompressor sebagai kenderaan rasmi anggota Exco dan pegawai kanan kerajaan negeri dalam usaha menjimatkan kos perbelanjaan tahunan.
Ahmad berkata, pembelian kereta itu menggunakan peruntukan yang disediakan sebelum ini dan bukan menggunakan wang royalti minyak.
“Ia tidak melibatkan royalti [...]

PUTRAJAYA: PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim arrived at the Anti-Corruption Agency headquarters here at 9.50am Monday to continue giving his statement on the alleged fabrication of evidence in the “black eye” incident of 1998.
He was accompanied by lawyers R. Sivarasa and Param Cumaraswamy.
In Anwar’s report lodged on July 1, he had alleged that Inspector-General [...]

PETALING JAYA: With Datuk Ong Tee Keat announcing that he will be going for the MCA top post, the attention has shifted to the Batu Pahat and Bakri divisions in Johor.
Both divisions are expected to ask the two Chuas to go for the division chief posts, which would be a stepping stone to their bid [...]

MORE than 20,000 people are expected to gather in Bukit Jalil Stadium in the name of peace from Oct 17 to 19.
They will be taking part in the Global Peace Festival 2008 during the three-day event.
Jointly organised by the Universal Peace Federation Malaysia (UPF), the United Nation Association of Malaysia (UNAM) and Pure Love & [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The naked body of a Chinese national was found with both wrists slashed at a service apartment in the city centre.
Kiang Wei, 33, believed to have been repeatedly raped, was found sprawled in a pool of blood at an apartment in Jalan Pasar in Pudu.
At 1.30am yesterday, a security guard on his rounds [...]

PETALING JAYA: Dr Konrad Ng is amused that his Malaysian roots got noticed halfway round the world, thanks to his link to Democrat candidate Barack Obama.
An assistant professor at the University of Hawaii in Manoa (UHM), Ng, whose family originally comes from Sabah, is married to Obama’s half-sister Maya Soetoro.
Not too long ago: Watching [...]