Across northern England and Scotland, a do-or-die battle is being waged against an aggressive invader: the American gray squirrel.

Researchers have discovered that the gray squirrel is threatening Britain's red squirrel by destroying its habitat and spreading disease. Miles Barne, chairman of the London-based European Squirrel Initiative—yes, there is such a thing—says Victorians first ...

We're all probably familiar with the Roman Catholic Church's list of seven deadly sins: pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath, and sloth. But did you know the Roman Catholic Church recently added seven more? Pope Benedict XVI was concerned about the "decreasing sense of sin" in today's world, evidenced by the declining interest in the disciplined act of confession. The list, published in the Vatican ...

Construction worker Patrick Lawler thought he had a toothache. For almost a week, he tried painkillers and ice packs to reduce the swelling. When nothing he did brought relief, he finally went to the dental office where his wife works. Only after the dentist took an x-ray did Patrick learn the true source of the toothache. He had a four-inch nail in his head.

When the dentists reported their discovery ...

Changing Lanes tells the story of lives Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful lawyer who has been grandfathered into the firm of his wife's father. Now on the inside, he finds out just how corrupt the firm is.

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As she talks with him over lunch at a stylish restaurant, Cynthia lifts up her mother as a good example of how to deal with moral uncertainty.

Cynthia asks, "Did you know that my father ...

When I was in seminary, I saw the film The Servant, which featured the great English actor Dirk Bogarde. The film tells the story of the second son of an entitled and wealthy British family. The son has come back to England after serving in the army in India…. The film takes place in England some time in the early 20th century at the height of British imperial power. Returning home, the young man ...

Man on Fire is the true story of Creasy (Denzel Washington), a burned-out, ex-CIA operative and assassin who has given up on life. He is invited by his friend Rayburn (Christopher Walken) to come to Mexico City and be a bodyguard for a 9-year-old girl, Pita Ramos (Dakota Fanning), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist family from America. Creasy reluctantly takes the job but ultimately finds his ...

Rafiq Abdul Mortland clearly needed to choose another career. The 38-year-old found that what he was doing put him under pressure, not to mention that the work was illegal. Mortland committed a string of robberies in Hennepin County, Minnesota. After capture, he received a sentence of eight to ten years in prison for holding up eight local businesses.

During his crime spree, Mortland received the nickname ...

However strong a castle may be, if a treacherous party resides inside (ready to betray at the first opportunity possible), the castle cannot be kept safe from the enemy. Traitors occupy our own hearts, ready to side with every temptation and to surrender to them all.

—Theologian John Owen (1616–1683)

"It's not the ship in the water but the water in the ship that sinks it. So it's not the Christian in the world but the world in the Christian that constitutes the danger."

—Evangelist and pastor J. Wilbur Chapman (1859-1918

Rising mortgage rates had nothing to do with Nur Malena Hassan moving into a glass box. The 24-year-old Malaysian woman's residence was temporary, as she tried to break the existing world record of 32 days, held by a woman from Thailand. The catch? Hassan's glass home included 6,000 scorpions.

On August 21, 2004, the crowd at a shopping mall witnessed Hassan step into the box, showing no outward signs ...