The late-night Senate vote saw the measure forbidding torture passed by 90 to nine, with most Republicans backing the measure. Most senators said the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal and similar allegations at the Guantanamo Bay prison rendered the result a foregone conclusion.
Telegraph (thanks for the reminder WU).
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The Vatican will allow gay men into the priesthood if they can show they have been celibate for at least three years, a report in leading Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera said on Friday.
But the Vatican will ban men “who publicly manifest their homosexuality” or show an “attraction” to homosexual culture “even if it is [...]

The new indictment accuses DeLay, a Texas Republican, of illegally circumventing the state’s law against corporate campaign contributions, and was issued by a newly empanelled Travis County grand jury on the first day of its term.
Boston Globe.
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Keith Alcorn, senior editor at the HIV information charity NAM, said it had been thought that HIV would increase in virulence as it passed through more and more human hosts.
But the latest study suggested the opposite is actually true.
“What appears to be happening is that by the time HIV passes from one person [...]

Price of gasoline got you down? If you’re driving a diesel vehicle in the South Pacific, you may be in luck. Vanuatan entrepreneur Tony Deamer has adapted his fleet of rental cars to run on coconut oil, a plentiful local commodity. Unlike with many biofuels, coconut oil doens’t need to be transesterized - mixed with [...]