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  Vatican researcher says faint writing on Shroud of Turin proves its authenticity
01:24:04 AM (ET), Saturday, November 21, 2009
(AP Photo) Byline: ANTONIO CALANNI

A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.Barbara Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, says in a new book that she used computer-enhanced images of the shroud to decipher faintly written words in Greek, Latin and Aramaic scattered across the cloth.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009
  • Vatican researcher says faint writing on Shroud of Turin proves its authenticity

  • Friday, November 20, 2009
  • Florence museum: lost Galileo relics, a tooth and 2 of astronomer's fingers, found again
  • Floods batter UK's Lake District, policeman dies, hundreds rescued; Ireland also hard hit
  • Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates are losing patience, could kill them within a week
  • Spokesman says world's largest atom smasher circulates beam of protons after yearlong repairs
  • Diplomats from 6 world powers urge Iran to accept UN nuclear plan
  • Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates are losing patience over ransom demand, may kill them
  • Italian prosecutor: US student 'harbored hatred' for Briton; killed her in sex game
  • 'Rompuy-pumpy' and Cathy Who?: Critics underwhelmed by EU's choice for new top jobs
  • Former Soviet leader Gorbachev criticizes Kremlin, hints at political comeback
  • Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip mark 62 years of marriage _ quietly
  • British man found not guilty of strangling his wife of 40 years during nightmare over intruder
  • Report: Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race with reliance on old technology
  • Police say midday shooting near Paris Gare du Nord train station kills 1, wounds 2 others
  • UN war crimes court appoints British lawyer as standby counsel for Radovan Karadzic
  • Russian Orthodox priest shot dead in Moscow church, assistant wounded

  • Thursday, November 19, 2009
  • 2 lions kill rare white tiger in zoo in northern Czech Republic
  • 'Oui were robbed!' Luckless Irish demand justice as referee hands World Cup spot to France
  • Alleged CIA prison in Lithuania at center of probe and speculation
  • Germany's Merkel calls for binding climate change deal next year if none reached at Copenhagen
  • Diplomats say EU leaders chose unknown Belgian for new full-time president post
  • Anglican leader in Rome for first talks with pope after Vatican openly invites converts
  • French court acquits subsidiary of Total, ex-factory chief in huge plant blast that killed 31
  • US war crimes envoy addresses international court's ruling body in sign of softening hostility
  • Russia's Constitutional Court extends moratorium on death penalty until its complete ban
  • Hundreds of thousands bid farewell to Patriarch Pavle, late leader of Serbian Orthodox Church

  • Wednesday, November 18, 2009
  • Antiracists, far-right youth battle in Moscow after slaying of activist known as 'Bonebreaker'
  • Pomp, ceremony and politics: Queen Elizabeth II opens new session of Parliament
  • Schwarzenegger says he won't run for another office when term ends next year
  • UN food official questions world's commitment to fighting hunger
  • Swedish museums return Maori remains to New Zealand at ceremony in Goteborg
  • The powers of new EU president, foreign minister
  • German government to extend Afghanistan mission, parliamentary approval needed
  • Dalai Lama says there'll be a setback in the Tibetan cause when he dies
  • Historic toll bridge spanning River Thames goes up for auction in London
  • British judge: Some evidence can be kept secret in Guantanamo detainees' suit against UK
  • NATO: Talks on generating new forces for Afghanistan delayed until next month
  • Austria says 'so long' to Fu Long as celebrity panda heads to China
  • Pope marks anniversary of UN treaty on rights of child, prays for all kids who suffer
  • California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visits native Austria

  • Tuesday, November 17, 2009
  • Renowned academics withdraw support for Vienna Wiesenthal Institute
  • Slovakia says it will double number of troops serving with NATO in Afghanistan to about 500
  • Czechs celebrate 20th anniversary of Velvet Revolution sweeping away communist regime
  • Police: French boy takes rifle to school, plans to shoot teachers; no one hurt
  • Former SS sergeant, 90, charged with killing of 58 Jewish laborers in wartime Austria
  • Officials: Nuclear physicist with suspected al-Qaida contacts discussed targeting French army
  • Prosecutors: Rwandan Hutu extremist group leaders arrested in Germany
  • A look at recent prosecutions of suspected Nazi war criminals in Germany
  • A list of the world's most corrupt and least corrupt countries, according to watchdog group
  • Campaigner against hate crimes shot and killed in the Russian capital
  • EU won't support the Palestinian plan for seeking recognition as an independent state

  • Monday, November 16, 2009
  • Mussolini's mistress diary: dictator was fierce anti-Semite, wanted to 'destroy them all'
  • UK war criminal says troops kicked and punched Iraqi prisoners
  • Libya's Gadhafi tries to convert 200 young Italian women, paid by modeling agency, to Islam
  • Police: French bank heist suspect turns himself in after 11 days on the run
  • Environmentalists say bluefin tuna catch quota too high, threatening survival of species
  • Reports: Startup of Iran's Russian-built nuclear reactor delayed until next year
  • Former basketball star Dennis Rodman detained in Germany for alleged unpaid euro3,400 hotel tab
  • Report: Extremist Muslim leaders are recruiting followers, smuggling propaganda from UK jails
  • EU officials question Afghan government's ability to face up to country's challenges
  • Swine flu infects Ukraine's presidential elections as candidates accused of scaremongering
  • Germany launches databases on fate of dead, missing POWs from Russia, Germany
  • Thousands of Serbs pay last respects to popular patriarch
  • Scotland Yard makes arrest after its longest serial rapist investigation
  • US hopes for significant Czech Republic's role in reworked missile defense plan
  • Greek police arrest fugitive who escaped from prison by helicopter
  • Berlusconi's tax fraud trial resumes in Italy, premier not attending
  • Life sentence of Swede convicted of California double murder is reduced to 45-year term

  • Sunday, November 15, 2009
  • Kosovo holds peaceful 1st vote since independence, Serbs take part despite call to boycott
  • Italian police nab one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives after 15 years on run
  • French President Sarkozy's envoy says talks with North Koreans addressed sensitive issues
  • Serbian Patriarch Pavle, advocate of tolerance and peace in the Balkans, dies at age 95
  • Iran's first lady makes rare public appearance, speech in Rome for UN hunger summit
  • Think tank: British government has failed to stop Muslim prisoners being radicalized in jails
  • Britain to apologize for mistreatment of child migrants sent to 'better life' overseas

  • Saturday, November 14, 2009
  • Sweden returns 22 skulls to native Hawaiian community in solemn ceremony in Stockholm
  • Mock funeral procession marks Venice population decline, but few dare call city history
  • Officials say renowned climber Tomaz Humar found dead after getting stranded in the Himalayas
  • UN food chief stages hunger strike ahead of summit; sleeps on HQ floor in scarf, coat
  • A president for Europe? Continent hoped for tough leader but now is thinking smaller
  • Bishop of Malta says Pope Benedict XVI will visit island April 17-18
  • British soldiers being investigated for fresh claims of abuse in Iraq
  • Explosions rock arms depot in Russian province, killing 2; dozens emerge safe from shelter
  • Officials say Russian forces kill 20 militants in Chechnya; bomb kills 3 in Dagestan

  • Friday, November 13, 2009
  • Syrian president says Israel isn't a serious partner in stalled peace talks
  • Russian policemen turn to YouTube to air allegations of abuse and trumped-up charges
  • Turkey announces new steps in bid to reconcile with Kurds after years of conflict
  • Nighttime theft of Munch artwork is latest in string of heists targeting Norwegian painter
  • Total UK pleads guilty to 3 charges in massive oil depot fire in 2005
  • Diary of British reporter who sacrificed reputation to expose Stalin's famine goes on display
  • UK: Boy attacked by another toddler with car jack wins gov't compensation
  • Report: Somali terrorism suspect arrested in Netherlands had US green card
  • Italy investigators fear reluctant witness may withhold key testimony in Guantanamo trials
  • Russian officer accused of throwing twin daughters from 8th-floor window
  • Reports: High-speed train derails in western Turkey, no immediate reports of injuries
  • German prosecutors drop probe of Russian businessman linked to poisoned spy case
  • Britain's prime minister says NATO nations may contribute 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan

  • Thursday, November 12, 2009
  • Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair to be questioned publicly about Iraq war
  • It gets late early: Russia may slash some of its 11 time zones to make economy efficient
  • Facebook, Wikipedia execs to brief Vatican, Catholic bishops about Internet, youth culture
  • APNewsBreak: Diplomats say Iran began intermittent building of nuke plant 7 years ago
  • Hearings in case of NY student allegedly beaten by Serb to start in December in Belgrade
  • Italy's top security official: Algerian cell financing terror smashed with 17 arrests
  • Sarkozy says 'no place' for full-body veils like burqas or oppression of women in France
  • Former French interior minister says Chirac, others aware of secret arms trafficking to Angola
  • Injured Slovenian climber stranded in the Himalayas, rescue attempt under way, colleague says
  • Iran exile says major security changes designed to boost power of Khamenei
  • Group: Work half done to clear the world of land mines, a decade after treaty's signing
  • War criminal Biljana Plavsic says she's glad to see Bosnian Serb ministate is thriving
  • Suspects on trial in Spanish court deny knowledge of plan for Barcelona suicide attacks
  • Parliament mulls bill to trim trial length; critics say it just helps Berlusconi's legal woes
  • UN appeals panel cuts sentence of Serb general convicted in Sarajevo siege by 4 years

  • Wednesday, November 11, 2009
  • Irish priest freed from monthlong captivity in Philippines; governments say no ransom paid
  • Red Cross says displacement camps for people uprooted by conflict, disaster can cause problems
  • Netanyahu open to Syria talks but no breakthrough on settlement dispute with French leader
  • Iran condemns Oxford over scholarship honoring slain student Neda, icon of election protests
  • IRA suspect charged with 1977 murder of undercover British Army intelligence officer
  • Man convicted of German court stabbing of Egyptian woman, sentenced to life in prison
  • France turns Armistice Day into friendship day by inviting German chancellor
  • UK government proposes to hold DNA profiles of innocent people in database for 6 years
  • Scottish widow who loved music and birds leaves millions to Met Opera, wildlife charity
  • Russia launches program to save tigers around the world by raising $1 billion for protection
  • British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Obama will announce Afghan troop decision within days
  • UN food agency chief calls for hunger strike to push leaders to act for world's 1b hungry
  • United Airlines pilot charged with being over alcohol limit while on the job
  • Red Cross chief calls for immediate, unconditional release of 2 workers kidnapped in Africa
  • Pope Benedict XVI tells Europeans to defend their cultural and religious heritage