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| Pope dragged to floor but unharmed at Mass incident
December 24, 2009 at 10:30 pm
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| VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A woman the Vatican described as unstable jumped over a barricade, lunged at Pope Benedict and dragged him to the floor at the start of his Christmas Eve mass in St Peter's Basilica. |
| Pilgrims crowd Bethlehem on warm Christmas eve
December 24, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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| BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of pilgrims and dignitaries crowded into Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity for a Christmas Mass, where Latin Patriarch Fuad al-Tuwal urged visitors to return home bearing a message of peace for the Holy Land. |
| U.S. father, son home after Brazil custody battle
December 24, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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| ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - The 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle arrived back in the United States on Thursday after being reunited in Brazil with his American father at the end of a five-year dispute that tested bilateral ties. |
| Pope falls down but unharmed in incident at mass
December 24, 2009 at 5:29 pm
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| VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A woman jumped over a barricade in St Peter's Basilica at the start of Pope Benedict's Christmas Eve mass on Thursday and the pope slipped and fell, but got up and then began the service, a Vatican spokesman said. |
| Iran security clashes with cleric mourners: website
December 24, 2009 at 2:59 pm
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian security forces clashed with supporters of dead dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri in the northwestern city of Zanjan on Thursday, a reformist website said. |
| Brazil custody battle ends, boy given to U.S. father
December 24, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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| RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The 9-year-old boy at the center of an international custody battle was reunited in Brazil with his American father on Thursday and boarded a plane to the United States, ending a five-year dispute that tested bilateral ties. |
| Military to scrap pregnancy punishment
December 24, 2009 at 12:19 pm
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Iraq will scrap a policy early next year that has led to the punishment of some soldiers serving in Iraq for becoming pregnant, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq said on Thursday. |
| Madoff treated for face, rib injuries: report
December 24, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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| CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was hospitalized late last week and treated for facial fractures, broken ribs and a collapsed lung, a Raleigh, North Carolina television station reported on its Web site on Thursday. |
| Suicide car bomb kills 8 in Afghan south
December 24, 2009 at 11:45 am
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| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide car bomber killed eight Afghan civilians on Thursday when he detonated his explosives outside a guest house frequented by foreigners in southern Kandahar city, a police official said. |
| Pilgrims crowd Bethlehem on warm Christmas eve
December 24, 2009 at 11:21 am
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| BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Thousands of Christians crowded into Bethlehem on an unseasonably warm Thursday evening, before celebrating Christmas midnight mass in the Church of the Nativity at the birthplace of Jesus. |
| Attacks kill at least 23 across Iraq
December 24, 2009 at 10:55 am
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| BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 23 people died in attacks across Iraq on Thursday, including a provincial leader and pilgrims observing a major Shi'ite religious ritual, police and officials said. |
| China decries Western "meddling" in dissident trial
December 24, 2009 at 9:35 am
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| BEIJING (Reuters) - China denounced foreign diplomatic "meddling" in the trial this week of Liu Xiaobo, a dissident facing up to 15 years in prison for authoring works calling for greater civil and political freedoms. |
| Iran bans services for dissident cleric: websites
December 24, 2009 at 7:28 am
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| TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have banned memorial gatherings for a leading dissident cleric, with the exception of those in his birthplace and the holy city of Qom, opposition websites reported on Thursday. |
| Yemen says Fort Hood-linked imam may be dead
December 24, 2009 at 7:27 am
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| SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni air raid may have killed the top two leaders of al Qaeda's regional branch on Thursday, and an American Muslim preacher linked to the man who shot dead 13 people at a U.S. army base may also have died, a Yemeni security official said. |
| Russia to work on new nuclear missiles: Medvedev
December 24, 2009 at 6:06 am
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| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will work on a new generation of nuclear missiles to ensure its nuclear deterrent remains effective, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. |
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