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Your article highlights the obvious source of all religion: the human imagination. At its best, religion is applied for the greater good, to regulate society and provide simple rules that benefit the majority. At other times, and less happily, it is hijacked to further the greedy, political or capricious aims of the few. Understanding this basic principle - and that we all have a fundamental choice between tolerance and belligerence - would be a much needed step towards eliminating religious conflict, and with it, human suffering. Rik Hofland, MUSCAT...
...Late Wednesday, investigators grimly announced that at least 50 graves had been disturbed. Four of the cemetery's employees, including its former manager, were swiftly arrested on an assortment of charges, including dismembering a human body. The most obvious motive was simple greed. Space was not an issue: there are still vast stretches of unused land at the cemetery, which opened in the 1950s and is predominantly African American...
...reasons for the tension between these two democracies are too numerous to count and too deeply rooted to understand in their entirety. But the most obvious is probably that France, frequently an outspoken critic of Israel, is home to a left-wing that, as the voice of one of Europe’s largest Arab and Muslim populations, is historically anti-Zionist...
...North Korea isn't behind the attacks, who else could it be? China is one obvious suspect. Although Beijing bristles at the accusation, U.S. officials say Chinese hackers have repeatedly attacked American networks, including the nation's power grid. The People's Liberation Army takes cyberwarfare very seriously, but China also has legions of freelance hackers, who attack global networks for fun. Russia, too, has both state and private hacking capabilities...
...This is more than a tribute, this is Michael's last masterpiece," Randy Phillips, CEO of AIG Live, told TIME. "The obvious date is August 29 - it's his birthday, and that's what we're shooting for." Phillips says the show would include "the brothers, possibly Janet" and the existing band against a backdrop of hours of Jackson video. The location: London's 02 Arena, where the tour was originally supposed to start on July 13. (See pictures of people around the world mourning Jackson...