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...quarter-million pilgrims who've flocked to Sydney to celebrate World Youth Day are, well... young. But the 2,000-year-old Church that still prints official documents in Latin and the 20-year-olds snapping photos of the Pope on disposable cameras seem to be having a blast together. "The task of young people is to bring fire into the Church," Pell said on Wednesday, after joining 4,400 priests and 145,000 exuberant worshipers for Mass beside Sydney Harbour...
...short life, Valujet had had more than its share of accidents and mishaps. Its planes repeatedly overshot runways and suffered from collapsed landing gears. Planes took off in weather that kept pilots of other airlines on the ground. Fires broke out on planes. Engines exploded. In one blast, the engine spewed shrapnel into the fuselage of a plane, piercing the metal and injuring seven people inside...
...City of Light: Bashar at a summit for Mediterranean leaders, Asma at the Louvre and Centre Pompidou, and both of them as official guests of French President Nicholas Sarkozy at Bastille Day celebrations on Monday. From all the high-wattage smiles, it's clear they're having a blast...
...There have been scores of bombings and suicide attacks in Pakistan this year, but the capital had mostly been exempt from the violence until a blast in a popular Italian restaurant on March 15 killed a Turkish woman and wounded 10 others, including four FBI agents. Just over a month ago militants bombed the Danish embassy, killing six. Another bomb attempt was foiled a few days later when police captured a vehicle carrying large amounts of explosives...
...help draw millions of visitors to Dubai each year. But for many seasoned travelers, they make a trip to the city-state sound as alluring as a holiday in Hell. Dubai's breathless p.r. machine neglects to mention the construction din, monstrous traffic jams, and overpriced chain hotels that blast synthetic music by the pool...