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New Orleans` Shooting 19 Wounded Including 2 Kids at Mother`s Day Parade

Nine people were taken to the area's University Hospital, eight of them having sustained gunshot wounds, according to WWLTV. Three are said to be critical condition.

(NEW ORLEANS) - At least 17 people were reportedly wounded during a Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday.

Among the victims was a 10-year-old girl who was grazed by a bullet.

Hey Google, What`s That Smell?

New Google Smell Search - the latest, not the greatest.

(MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA) - Millions are seeing the new Google scent search option, and grossing out over all kinds of unexpected surprises. But hey, whoever thought we could search by odor?

It is the latest brainchild of the company that delivers billions of pages of information and knowledge all over the world each day.

Obama Expresses Frustration, Condemns Drone Warfare in Candid Interview

"We are killing more children than suspected terrorists"

(LEXINGTON KPLN Channel 4) - In what can only be described as an unusual turn of events, President Obama made what appears to be an attempt to distance himself from the war policies of the United States government.

This seems to be more than just face-saving, with the President expressing deep misgivings over the wars and his inability to carry out his campaign promises to end the wars.

Thousands to Pray & Walk - Over 5 Hours for Government Attention

26th Annual Good Friday Dramatization on Mumbai's Streets.

(MUMBAI, India) - Thousands of Christians will trudge a grueling and arduous 7 kilometer walk in scorching heat, starting at Sacred Heart Church in suburban Mumbai's Khar West, while a troupe of Christian activists will enact scenes, believed to have happened on the first Good Friday.

The walking pilgrimage will start in the morning at around 10 am and conclude in the evening.

INDIA: Government Urged to Exempt Christians from 30th and 31st March Due to Easter Weekend

According to Joseph Dias, Christian employees will find it difficult to fulfill their religious obligation...

(MUMBAI) - The Catholic-Christian Secular Forum (CSF), India's apex activist community NGO, has urged the prime minister and finance minister of the country to declare at least Easter Sunday if not Holy Saturday preceding it as a sectional holiday.

The CSF general secretary, Joseph Dias issued a memorandum detailing what the holiday means to Christians.

Shamrock Shenanigans: Luck or Skill?

Let us depend less on the myth of elusive luck and instead sharpen up our skills regularly.

(SALEM) - Each of us has a "personal beef" in the many cliches we hear in everyday conversation.

People do not generally mean to be misleading or inaccurate. Yet that pitfall is very hard to avoid. How many of us fall automatically into wishing "Good Luck" to somebody facing a new challenge?

Can We Avoid the Valentine Void?

We need to invent a social support network to validate lost souls as worthy of continued respect if not affection.

(SALEM) - If Love truly makes the world go around, there must be plenty of people out there sadly missing the mark.

Who among us will address the void of those widows and widowers?

Happy New Year 2013

I enter to see a city being disfigured and 5,000 years of its history slowly destroyed or disfigured.

(BETHLEHEM) - Obama was reelected president of the USA, a country still under Israeli occupation.

So he fails to make Israel accountable for violating International Law and even American law. US law prohibits funding a country that persistently violates human rights. Israel goes on doing just that on a daily basis.

Mob Attacked Christians on Christmas day

Police have not arrested Muslim attackers but are twisting incident in communal riots.

(ISLAMABAD) - Christmas traditionally means carol singing, new clothes, and celebrations; unfortunately for Pakistani Christians things have become much more difficult since the blasphemy laws are hanging like a sward on the neck.

Its misused is clearly seen in Rimsha’s case in Islamabad. Christians living in the same neighborhood say they are facing a bleak and joyless Christmas, crushed b poverty and harassed by Muslims.

Two Dead Following Downtown Sacramento New Year`s Eve Shooting

It appears to have been random; the midnight fireworks display is canceled.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Sacramento police say two people were killed in a shooting that happened shortly after 9:30 p.m. tonight near 2nd and K St, at an event held to commemorate the new year. Approximately 35,000 people were in the area. The crowded gathering saw many people suddenly trying to determine what was taking place.

One witness told KCRA Channel 3 News that eight shots were clearly heard, and that the shots were not something they could easily have confused with fireworks.