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Just in time for Easter, we've rounded up 10 of mankind's most awe-inspiring odes to faith. Consider this slide show a little piece of heaven on Earth. Whether or not you're religious, there's no denying that churches are among man's most spectacular creations. From a modern glass-and-pine place of worship deep in the Arkansas countryside to a wooden stave church dating back to the Middle Ages in Norway, we scoured the globe to identify the most breathtaking churches in the world.

Everyone knows views are best from above. That's why we asked pilots and flight attendants who've racked up millions of sky miles to locate the world's most beautiful approaches. You'll definitely want a window seat on these flights. Philipsburg, St. Maarten (see photo 1 of 2) Princess Juliana International Airport is one of the most infamous—and photographed—in the world because its runway starts on a peninsula just hundreds of feet off St. Maarten's shore. "The airport is framed by the beautiful water to the right and front, and the hills that rise in the background," says Captain Bob Raleigh, the...

Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008 I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents over the last few years. This latest incident takes the biscuit. Ironically, by the end of the flight I would have gladly paid over a thousand rupees for a single biscuit following the culinary journey of hell I was subjected to at thehands of your corporation. Look at this Richard. Just look at it: [see image 1, above]. I imagine the same questions are racing through your brilliant...

The video portrays the Republican as a hero but the message may be tarnished as he is filmed smoking a cigarette. In the footage an emotional and shirtless McCain passes a message to his wife saying he will get well and loves her. He also describes being shot down over Hanoi in 1967, and parachuting into a lake. At times, when speaking of his family, McCain's lower lip trembles and his voice breaks. "I was on a flight over the city (Hanoi) ... and I was bombing and I was hit by a missile or anti-aircraft fire, I'm not sure...

...A major turning of the page -- an historic cultural turnover, a generational changing of the guard -- would happen with an Obama victory. I wish there was some way to analogize this without comparing Team Obama -- a fairly unradical bunch with moderately progressive ideas and intentions -- to 20th Century communists, but the fact is that the "reds" in this country -- dominated by the insufficiently educated rurals over 55 -- are opposed to Obama in much the same way that the counter-revolutionary "white" Russians were opposed to the Bolsheviks, the conservative, plantation-owning Cubans were opposed to Castro,...

Paris in the month of May was in full aphrodisiac bloom. The girls were swinging along the boulevards in their short, flowery skirts, their hair flowing loose behind them. On the radio, the singer Tino Rossi - France's answer to Rudolph Valentino - belted out his latest romantic favourite. But a few short weeks later, on June, 14, 1940, the German army marched into the capital and occupied it for four years. France has never forgotten its humiliation - or its bewilderment - in having to adjust to a life of close proximity to the old enemy, with all the...

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions. What...

BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) -- Countries around the world have expressed their support to the Chinese government on its handling of the recent riots in Lhasa, capital city of China's Tibet Autonomous Region. A spokesman of the Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday strongly denounced the unsavory elements of their moves to seek "the independence of Tibet" and scuttle the upcoming Beijing Olympics. He expressed support to the Chinese government in its efforts to ensure social stability and the rule of law in Tibet and to defend the fundamental interests of the Tibetan people....

Some 50 stalwarts of the political right privately met with Mitt Romney minutes after he dropped out of the Republican nominating race to discuss the former Massachusetts governor becoming the face of conservatism, as Ronald Reagan became en route to his 1980 election win.

Americans are fed up with the Iraq War. Even we Iraq War supporters don't know how to answer when asked how we view the Iraq War in its current state. On one hand we don't want to give the media or Bush haters any ammunition to further undermine support for the war, but on the other hand we want to register our disapproval with the politically correct manner in which it's being fought. If we answer "No" to the question about if we approve of the way Bush is handling the Iraq War it will be painted with a broad...

>Caleb Pegues left his home in Parker and headed to Ponderosa High School on April 20 with a backpack containing his books, his homework and an empty 20-ounce drink bottle. A few minutes later, he stopped at a Wal-Mart and bought cinnamon rolls for a fellow student riding in the car with him. According to a police report, he also bought some household products that can be used very differently from the way they were intended. The 17-year-old, who'd done mission work with his mother in Thailand and Vietnam, is suspected of combining those products in the plastic drink bottle...

LONDON - He's an eccentric English aristocrat with a lavish 13th century mansion that boasts three lakes, a ballroom and hundreds of cattle - but lacks one key feature: an heir. After an 18-month search for a relative to inherit his $15 million home, Sir Benjamin Slade, a childless baronet, has found an unlikely candidate: a rock star from Colorado. Isaac Slade, front man with The Fray, a Denver band that enjoys success on both sides of the Atlantic, contacted Sir Benjamin and jetted in for a two-day visit, trading sweat- soaked clubs for strolls through the picturesque 150 acres...

Awash in snow, path to Pikes Peak summit proving dangerous Last May, Teresa Taylor was watching climbers pad up to the summit of Pikes Peak in shorts and sneakers. This year, she’s warning everyone that beyond Barr Camp, you’d better be dressed for the worst. This is the snowiest spring on Pikes Peak in more than a decade. Barr Camp recorded 231 inches of snow this winter. (It only saw 50 inches in 2006.) Hikers venturing above treeline will find that the peak is more wintry this May than it usually is in January, and they should be prepared. “The...

Boston, MA - Governor Mitt Romney issued the following statement on today's U.S. Senate agreement on immigration reform: "I strongly oppose today's bill going through the Senate. It is the wrong approach. Any legislation that allows illegal immigrants to stay in the country indefinitely, as the new 'Z-Visa' does, is a form of amnesty. That is unfair to the millions of people who have applied to legally immigrate to the U.S. "Today's Senate agreement falls short of the actions needed to both solve our country's illegal immigration problem and also strengthen our legal immigration system. Border security and a reliable...

Most people call what happened that day in 1864 a massacre. But a firsthand account from a soldier simply calls it war. This morning in a grassy valley in eastern Colorado, members of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and officials from the National Park Service will formally dedicate the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. At the same time, the Old Colorado City Historical Society will rerelease an out-of-print book that argues that the massacre wasn’t a massacre at all. “I realize even suggesting that isn’t very popular, but things aren’t as simple as they are made out to be,”...

Anybody else get tired of "the point". Can you politicians (Republicans and Democrats) just agree to resist your political urge on this? It makes you look as fake as a 3 dollar bill. This is a bit ridiculous.

A man has been treated in hospital after nailing his hand to a coffee table in a freak accident. It is believed that Brett Tearne suffered the injury while he was with a group of friends. An ambulance was called to his house in Morriston, Swansea, where medics found him with a nail going through his left hand and into a coffee table. Police told the South Wales Evening Post they were not treating the incident as suspicious and that it was an unfortunate accident. One neighbour told the newspaper: "We heard a lot of noise and saw the ambulance...

Slick streets. Missed work. School snow days. Endless shoveling. Yet another storm in the forecast, followed by extreme cold. A long-term prognosis for wetter-than-usual weather through the winter. This week’s sunny days were a brief reprieve, but the warm-up won’t last long enough to melt the remnants of the past two storms. Does all this white make you feel blue? If so, you’re not alone, according to area therapists. “People get squirrely when they can’t go anywhere,” said Randee Anderson, a marriage and family therapist. “It puts some people in survival mode, which scares a lot of people. A lot...

Around this time every year, Joe Fenton’s mind wanders back to the preview he had of the destruction that would be unleashed on Pearl Harbor. Just 17 years old and six months removed from boot camp, Fenton was an oiler on the USS Boise as it escorted five merchant ships carrying air base construction materials across the Pacific to the Philippines. After midnight on the morning of Nov. 28, 1941, the light cruiser’s loudspeakers blared with orders for crew members to man their battle stations. Fenton scrambled to the deck and saw two dozen ships of unknown origin about 3...

Are you the poster who embodies the caricature that left-wingers have established of Freepers? I just wasted an hour viewing some left-wing sites, and I noticed a lot of Freeper-bashing. I've noticed this before, of course; but it got me to wondering who exactly they're talking about. The DU'ers, etc have plenty of negative adjectives for and descriptions of Freepers, but they never specify who exactly on Free Republic fits these descriptions. So in the spirit of bipartisanship that is swarming over Washington I figured I might help them out. Once we decide who fits the caricature they have of...