Germany
BIRMINGHAM, England - Pope Benedict XVI beatified Cardinal John Henry Newman at an open-air Mass on Sunday and marked the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a personal reflection on the evil of the Nazi regime, praising those who "courageously" resisted it.
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is criticizing controversial remarks about Israel by veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas.
BERLIN - A German court says that a Berlin high school doesn't have to provide a 16-year-old Muslim student with a private room to pray in during school hours.
Army Capt. Michael P. Cassidy
The last time Michael Cassidy was home on leave - two weeks in the middle of his deployment to Iraq - he took the daughters who his wife said were the "apples of his eyes" to the Carowinds theme park in South Carolina.
