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Blaze rages in London’s Soho district

A massive fire engulfed the four-story offices of a major film company in central London on Friday, sending clouds of white smoke over the city skyline, the London fire department said. Two firefighters with minor injuries were taken to the hospital as a result of the Future Films building on Dean Street in the city’s Soho district, London ambulance services said.

In Egypt, Invoking Islam to Combat Sexual Harassment

Doaa Kassem, like most Egyptian women, is used to being catcalled and grabbed at by men in the crowded streets of Cairo. The 24-year-old executive secretary is well versed in women’s rights, having studied the subject in Sweden, and she is bolder than most when it comes to dealing with her harassers

The Pope on Capitalism: Encyclical ‘Charity in Truth’

Ever wondered what God makes of the current global economic crisis? We’ll never know, of course, but the man the Roman Catholic Church deems the Almighty’s “pastor in chief” has finally weighed in with his own take: Pope Benedict XVI offers neither stock tips nor bailout plans in Caritas in Veritate , but the long-awaited third encyclical of his papacy is a wide-ranging commentary on the sources of our economic woes and a holy blueprint for recovery based on something greater than the once mighty dollar.

Nigerian militants claim pipeline blast, tanker crew’s seizure

Nigerian militants said Monday they had blown up an oil pipeline and captured six crew members of a chemical tanker. The crowd of 200 to 300 — mostly women and elderly — quickly formed as local authorities were taking members of the media on a tour of a neighborhood that was heavily damaged during riots over the weekend, witnesses said.

Fresh protests follow Uyghur crackdown

Several hundred people staged a new protest in Urumqi on Tuesday, demanding the release of relatives detained in connection with weekend demonstrations by ethnic Uyghur residents in China’s far western Xinjiang region.. The crowd of 200 to 300 — mostly women and elderly — quickly formed as local authorities were taking members of the media on a tour of a neighborhood that was heavily damaged during riots over the weekend, witnesses said