A Cornishman admits shooting dead his sister’s 10-year-old donkey after an argument.

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Man shoots sister’s donkey dead

The simple mobile game Angry Birds has spawned an entire genre of real-life projects: People recreate the game in felt ( like my sister ) or as stop-motion animation or use it as a metaphor for the Middle East peace process . But this father-son project is the best (i.e. cutest) implementation I’ve seen: It’s a playable birthday cake created with obvious love by tech journalist Mike Cooper for his son. And if you want to try your hand at this, Cooper has now posted a step-by-step guide to building your own Angry Birds cake. Via Joe Brown

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A Playable Angry Birds Birthday Cake for One Lucky Kid

These days it seems every film about Queen Elizabeth II or her family gets nominated for an Oscar, so expect to see more of them in the near future, especially if The King’s Speech wins Best Picture. The latest movie about The Queen was just announced, and it will star Dakota Fanning in yet another story inspired by true events. It’s called Girls’ Night Out, and Fanning will play a teenage Princess Margaret (Elizabeth’s sister) in the “romantic fairytale” that follows Margaret and her sister Elizabeth when they’re allowed out of Buckingham Palace for one night to celebrate V.E. day in 1945. Naturally, their night out will be filled with everything from romance to danger, and it looks to be a very different from the British royalty tales that have… Read More Read Comments

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As a young woman in the 1960s, Sister Cecilia Dwyer came to an isolated Benedictine monastery in western Prince William County to begin her life as a nun.

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From pastures to bedroom community, rapid growth in Linton Hall mirrors state

When Madeline Murphy Rabb of Chicago arrived in Egypt on January 25 with the group Grannies on Safari and her sister, she did not plan to spend her birthday trip witnessing that country’s uprising against its longtime leader, Hosni Murabak. But for the arts consultant and longtime civil rights activist, being in Egypt during the uprising is a birthday gift she will not soon forget, she said by phone from a hotel in Luxor, Egypt on Sunday, read more

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American Tourist in Egypt Sees Parallels Between Egyptian Uprising, US Civil Rights Movement

And now, a word about brotherhood from Alabama Governor Robert Bentley: There may be some people here today who do not have living within them the Holy Spirit. But if you have been adopted in God’s family like I have, and like you have if you’re a Christian and if you’re saved, and the Holy Spirit lives within you just like the Holy Spirit lives within me, then you know what that makes? It makes you and me brothers. And it makes you and me brother and sister.” ”Now I will have to say that, if we don’t have the same daddy, we’re not brothers and sisters,” he continued. “So anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their savior, I’m telling you, you’re not my brother and you’re not my sister, and I want to be your brother.” I will let Goldblog’s Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, and Wiccan readership speak up for themselves (yes, this blog has Wiccan readers; at least two of whom I’m aware). The wonderful thing about the world today is that so many Christians understand, in ways Christians didn’t understand before, that Jesus was a Jew, and a rabbi, as well, that he lived as a Jew, preached to Jews, and died as a Jew, and during his life, and after, his followers were Jews who lived as Jews. I like to imagine that if Jesus came to Earth as Messiah (or back to Earth as Messiah, which is not this blog’s understanding, but one that is respected by here nonetheless) he would look around and ask the leaders of Christianity, “What, exactly, were you all thinking when it came to the treatment of my people?” I would like to imagine that he would feel comfortable in my synagogue, that he would find it far more familiar than he would, say, Robert Bentley’s church.  

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Sweet Home, Alabama, Unless You’re Not Christian

The brother of missing Georgia woman Kristi Cornwell has found his sister’s body, almost 16 months after she disappeared. Cornwell’s body, partially buried and burned, was found nine miles from where police believe she was abducted. She was taken while…

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One of my earliest memories is sitting on the couch with my mom as she read Charlotte’s Web to me and my sister. Thinking back on the book, I don’t remember all of the details, but I do remember that Charlotte (the spider) was helping save her friend Wilbur (the pig) from being killed. I remembered there was a mischievous rat named Templeton that I thought was cool.I also remember me and my sister crying as my mom read us the end of the book. read more

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Reading Charlotte’s Web as a Parent and an Activist

The 14-year-old hitman known as “El Ponchis” was arrested with his sister by Mexican authorities around midnight Thursday attempting to board a plane to Tijuana. The siblings said they intended to cross the border into San Diego to visit their mother….

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Outside a baby shower in Landover three years ago, Erik Kenneth Dixon snapped. As he argued with his sister and her boyfriend in a parking lot, the 25-year-old man whipped out a .45-caliber Glock and shot her in the leg. Then he chased down her boyfriend, firing between cars and at the running ma…

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Tracing Secrets

He must be a pro at weddings by now: Kody Brown, star of TLC’s polygamist reality-TV show Sister Wives, has tied the knot with his fourth wife, Robyn Sullivan, who appears on the show as Brown’s fianc

West End hit musical Sister Act is set to open on the New York stage next year, it has been announced.

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