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Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern makes a statement in Dublin yesterday regarding the cover up of child abuse within the Catholic church

Dublin Archbishops colluded over abuse

Catholic Church apologises as report reveals how senior clerics protected priests from scandal despite 'perversion of power and trust visited on helpless and innocent children'

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Naked man questioned over deaths  new

Friday, 27 November 2009

A man arrested for questioning about three murders in Limerick sat naked for several hours while he was being quizzed by detectives earlier this week.

The Kunduz air strike has resulted in the resignations of General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Franz Josef Jung

Merkel under fire as general resigns over Kunduz massacre

Friday, 27 November 2009

Commanding officer and ex-defence minister stand down as video reveals Germany covered up civilian deaths

Abuse: why did the Vatican remain quiet?  new

Friday, 27 November 2009

Victims campaigners have reacted with anger and disbelief after it emerged the Vatican and papal nuncio in Ireland ignored repeated requests from investigators for information on clerical sexual abuses cases.

Johnny Hallyday performing in Paris on Bastille Day this year

Johnny goes to Hallywood

Friday, 27 November 2009

France's veteran rock star hopes to conquer the US at last, writes John Lichfield

Gunman opens fire on students in Hungary

Friday, 27 November 2009

A student opened fire at a university in the southern Hungarian city of Pecs yesterday, killing one student and wounding three others.

Church 'had immunity to conceal sex abuse'

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Authorities enjoyed a cosy relationship with the Church and did not enforce the law as archbishops protected abusers.

Irish church has suffered dramatic fall from grace

Thursday, 26 November 2009

David McKittrick: Even the most faithful have been shocked to the core by the relentless revelations.

Litany of abuse 'eroding trust in Catholic Church'

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Mass-goers in the heart of the Dublin Archdiocese today claimed that the devastating clerical abuse scandals were wiping out trust in the Catholic Church.

The inhabitants of the windswept Danish island of Samso have achieved a decade-long target of self-sufficiency

The little island and its big, green victory

Thursday, 26 November 2009

The Danish haven of Samso is one of the world's first industrialised places to become energy self-sufficient – a great boost for a country about to host a summit on climate change. Tony Paterson visits the windy isle.

Bailed Polanski to stay under house arrest for £2.7m

Thursday, 26 November 2009

Roman Polanski was granted $4.5m (£2.7m) bail yesterday, clearing the way for the film director to move within days from a Swiss jail to house arrest and electronic monitoring at his chalet in an Alpine resort.

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