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Pastor Cai was abducted from a bus stop and dragged into a van by three plain-clothed State Security officers on September 11 2004. According to a former fellow inmate, Pastor Cai was repeatedly tortured with electric shocks and forced to give false confessions to serious charges. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...ina-jailed.html

Democrats scored big victories in the Virginia and New Jersey governors races Tuesday. Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine defeated Republican Jerry Kilgore in Virginia and Sen. Jon Corzine easily beat businessman Doug Forrester in New Jersey. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...com/id/9972632/

Syria accused Israel on Tuesday of seeking to exploit intense U.S.-led pressure on Damascus to reject calls for peace talks over the Golan Heights. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ges/643093.html

When Imad Abu Assad gazes at his daughter Lujain bouncing on his knee, he sees not only a gurgling four-month-old infant, but a "freedom fighter." Abu Assad, one of the few remaining senior Islamic Jihad leaders in Tulkarm, prophesies a long and bitter fight against Israel, one that has taken a bloody upsurge over recent weeks. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...le1026220.shtml

As urban riots are spreading all over France and gaining momentum, Europen leaders are becoming increasingly concerned that France's woes may spread, particularly to neighbouring countries with large immigrant populations. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ver.com/9/20277

A dozen AIDS activists have been arrested after invading a Christian organization's Washington headquarters and chaining themselves to objects in the lobby. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...sp=irresistible

Three gunmen in a speeding car killed a lawyer for a co-defendant in Saddam Hussein's trial and wounded another attorney Tuesday in Baghdad, a member of the defense team and police said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...aq_x.htm?csp=34

France's Cabinet authorized curfews under a state-of-emergency law Tuesday in an extraordinary measure to halt the country's worst civil unrest in decades after violence raged for a 12th night. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...le1022297.shtml

The Pentagon announced Monday that more than 92,000 troops will be in the next rotation of U.S. forces in Iraq, and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said its exact size will not be decided until after the Dec. 15 election of a new Iraqi government. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...itary&printer=1

In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the US media became preoccupied with a key question: "Why do they hate us so much?" A fair-minded people, the Americans believed there must be a good, rational explanation why 19 educated, economically comfortable young men would ram planes into buildings, killing themselves along with thousands of innocents. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

President Bush voiced his support on Monday for expanding the Panama Canal to allow bigger ships and more cargo to pass through the shortcut between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ush-canal_x.htm

Four American soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, and the U.S. command announced that five soldiers from an elite unit were charged with kicking and punching Iraqi detainees. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://.../iraq&printer=1

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday reiterated that Israel would sign no peace agreement with Syria, regardless of the outcome. He added that "talk about retreating from the Golan Heights was a grave mistake." http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

France was struggling to overcome one of its gravest post-war crises last night as every major city faced the threat of fierce rioting that began 12 nights ago and now seems to have spun out of control. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...l=/news/2005/11

Iran has strongly protested what it said was the United States' use of unmanned aerial drones over its territory and said two of them had crashed this summer within its borders, according to diplomatic letters circulated at the United Nations yesterday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...0701450_pf.html

One month after South Asia's massive Oct. 8 earthquake, the regional death toll jumped to 87,350 Tuesday following a new count of Pakistan's casualties, officials said. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...rint?id=1290870

The Rev. Murtala Marti Dangora began his Christian life 25 years ago with a baptism of fire. While many people in Nigeria become Christians without difficulties, Rev. DangoraDisgruntled Cypriot doctors are threatening to sail away from the Mediterranean island to stage a strike if their demands for better working conditions are not met. http://www.worthynews.com/christian-persec...OCTORS-DC-html/

Disgruntled Cypriot doctors are threatening to sail away from the Mediterranean island to stage a strike if their demands for better working conditions are not met. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...OCTORS-DC-html/

A Colorado man who had a panic attack when he found he was glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot restroom has sued the home improvement giant for negligence, saying staff ignored his plight. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...D-GLUE-DC-html/

A Swedish postcard bearing a lottery number arrived 50 years after being sent to a retirement home on the Baltic island of Gotland. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...STCARD-DC-html/

A hand grenade being used instead of a ball in a game of catch exploded early on Saturday killing three youths in this Bosnian town, police and news agencies said. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...RENADE-DC-html/

For 40 exhausting minutes, Wayne Goldsberry of Arkansas, in the United States, battled a deer with his bare hands in his daughter's bedroom. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/in...5309466C427174/

A cruise liner that was attacked by pirates over the weekend docked safely on this Indian Ocean archipelago Monday after changing its course to escape. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ao...00010000000001/

Judy Trainer thought she was going on a routine pizza delivery. But when she got to a local motel, she says her sixth sense kicked in. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ab...int-id-1280704/