The trial of Archbishop Kenneth William (Seraphim) Storheim, highest-ranking cleric in the Canadian diocese of the Orthodox Church in America, began in Winnipeg Monday. The archbishop is accused of sexually assaulting two brothers in the mid-eighties.

Entrepreneur Jamen Shively held a press conference in Seattle on Thursday and, with former Mexican president Vincente Fox by his side, said he's going ahead with plans to market a national brand of marijuana. He believes he can be the Starbucks of pot.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney joined a list of people calling for the release of a member of the Russian band, Pussy Riot. McCartney wrote on his website that Maria Alyokhina's punishment should end. Two members of the band are still in prison.

The media's latest blow-up of a Justin Bieber story has come in the form of a visit he paid, out of respect, to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. It's where Frank hid from Nazis for so long, eventually being captured and sent to her death in a camp.

While some media jumped the gun and erroneously reported Cardinal Timothy Dolan would not be partaking in the Democrats convention next week, Dolan in fact will. He'd been asked by the Democrats to lead the closing prayer and will do so.

If soccer balls could talk this one would tell a story about floating and floating and then floating. It is from a school in Japan and was swept out to sea in last year's Tsunami and, after a year of floating, it has turned up on an Alaskan shore.

Brad Pitt, a father of 6 and the mate of Angelina Jolie, as well as a gifted actor, might not have all of that if he didn't take a trip to Morocco and he didn't quit smoking pot. He recently opened up to a well-known magazine about that and marriage.

The former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has spoken out against Alaska Airlines for their intended removal of prayer cards which have long been part of their service. The cards are given to passengers with in-flight meals.

Today is Veterans Day. It is a day of honor, a chance for Americans to show its gratitude to the men and women who have served in the armed forces.

Two Polynesian islands in the South Pacific are running so low on water its residents expect to run out of drinking water within one to two weeks. Tokelau and Tuvalu are typical tropical islands of paradise but now they face an environmental crisis.

This coming Monday marks the 43rd anniversary of civil rights activist Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis Tennessee, April 4,1968.

New guidelines released by the U.S. CPSC recommend gutting thousands of home tainted by corrosive, potentially unhealthy Chinese drywall. Some samples of the drywall emit 100 times as much hydrogen sulfide as drywall made elsewhere

An Italian-American radio host is in trouble for lashing out at the entire Filipino nation including Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, calling him illiterate and for implying that the Philippines is a nation of whores

Former WWE superstar Eddie "Umaga" Fatu, who had his contract with the WWE terminated in June, died today of a suspected heart attack, according to WWE's site.

Popular Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao appeared in the 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' show Tuesday and entertained his fans with his rendition of popular 70's song 'Sometimes When We Touch'. Pacquiao is training for his fight with Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas

Manny Pacquiao breaks his silence by saying that he has a good chance of beating Miguel Cotto in their 'Firepower' match and hopes to become the first boxer in the world to win seven different titles in seven weight divisions

An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off Samoa resulted in a tsunami hitting the islands five minutes later. Locals did get warning, but that time span wasn’t enough. The capital of American Samoa, Pago Pago, looks like a bomb site.

In a recent swine flu-related study. Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have concluded that pregnant women who get the dreaded virus are four times more likely to be hospitalized as compared to other swine flu patients.

The Al Qaida-linked extremists group, Abu Sayaff who threatened to behead one of their hostages at 2 p.m. yesterday were silent today on their original threat. The military command in the area could not say if the hostages are still alive.

It’s one thing to have a ring through your nose, but how about an infection that gives you hepatitis? An ornamental needle through a belly button might seem sexy at first, but wouldn’t with skin infections later that can lead to death.