New York saints hailed as good news for beleaguered Catholics
BUFFALO - Upstate New York Catholics on Monday cheered the canonization of two women from the region as welcome good news for a church that has been more used recently to making headlines about sex scandals and controversies over doctrine.
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Pilgrims arrive in Mecca for haj amid regional turmoil
MECCA - Millions of pilgrims arrive this week in Mecca for Islam's annual haj pilgrimage, which starts on Wednesday, with Saudi authorities warning they will stop any disruptive protests over the conflict in Syria.
Thirteen Italians die in bloody start to hunt season
ROME - Italian hunting enthusiasts have killed 13 people and wounded 33 in shooting accidents since the season opened in September, increasing pressure to reform antiquated hunting laws.
National Geographic photos, works of art to be sold at auction
NEW YORK - Historic and contemporary photographs and works of art from the archives of the National Geographic Society are expected to fetch more than $3 million when they are sold for the first time at auction in December, Christie's said on Monday.
South African photographer who chronicled apartheid dies
JOHANNESBURG - Alf Khumalo, a South African photographer whose pictures of the brutalities of the apartheid regime piled pressure on the white-minority government, has died of renal failure at the age of 82.
Poland's oldest former Auschwitz prisoner dies at 108
WARSAW - Antoni Dobrowolski, who was the oldest Polish survivor of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, died at the age of 108 on Sunday, Auschwitz Museum officials said.
North Dakota's oil boom
Thousands of people have flooded into North Dakota to work in the oil drilling industry.