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In an interview with Mexican television N+, Pope Francis revealed that he will not be buried inside the Vatican, but that he asked to be buried in the royal church of Santa Maria Maggiore, which is located near Rome’s main railway station Termini. In this church is the Byzantine icon of the Virgin Salus Populi Romani, “for the salvation of the Roman people”, in front of which the Pope kneels and prays when he returns from every trip.

Chris Rock summed up the black experience in the United States kind of perfectly during his HBO special Never Scared more than a decade ago: “If you’re black, you got to look at America a little bit different,” he joked, stone-faced. “You got to look at America like the uncle who paid for you to go to college but who molested you.” Since then, that “generous” uncle has moved from molesting to killing, with the list of victims growing by the day: the Charleston 9. Freddie Gray. Michael Brown. Rekia Boyd. Eric Garner. Tamir Rice. John Crawford III. Yuvette Henderson....

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/jimmy-carter-picture.jpg Think of all the laughs we've had because of this clown, including his recent snubbing in North Korea by Kim Jong Il* *Time Magazine (in usual form) mentioned that trip, but left out the snubbing

Militants 'will fight to the last drop of blood' By Harry de Quetteville in Shatila camp, Beirut Last Updated: 1:20am BST 25/05/2007 Islamic militants besieged inside a refugee camp in Lebanon will fight "to the last drop of blood", supporters of their leader said yesterday. Some of the refugees who left the Nahr al-Bared camp. Thousands remain trapped inside as the militants threaten to fight on The warning came as Lebanese troops clashed again with the Fatah al-Islam fighters led by Shaker al-Absi in the Nahr al-Bared camp on the outskirts of Tripoli. Al-Absi, a 52-year-old jet pilot turned Islamic...