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Jehovah's Witnesses Came Calling With The Watchtower and Awake MagazineWhere it all started (above)The Watchtower Society misprophesied that the world would end in 1914. In this photo Charles Taze Russell, Joseph Rutherford and others of Watchtower's main heads along with family members are on the Mount Of Olives in Jerusalem. Why? Because they believed Christ was about to return and start resurrecting people there....

By DAVID STRINGER, Associated Press David Stringer, Associated Press Tue Dec 14, 6:30 pm ET LONDON – A British judge ordered Julian Assange released on 200,000 pounds ($316,000) bail Tuesday, but the WikiLeaks...

British Court Orders Leader of WikiLeaks Freed on Bail By RAVI SOMAIYA and Alan Cowell from Berlin LONDON — After a week in detention facing possible extradition, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks antisecrecy group, was ordered released on $310,000 bail by a court on Tuesday as he challenges a Swedish prosecutor’s demand that he return to Stockholm for questioning about alleged sex offenses....

"When Paster Charles Taze Russel the founder of the Witnesses died in 1916 he was buried with a marker a few feet away by his tomb sculptured as a large pyramid five to six feet high, with the Mason logo embossed on it and remains to this day for all to see. Although putting up a smoke screen by writing articles in the Watchtower magazine that he was the editor of, against the Masons, evidence shows without a doubt...

It would be nice to get an instant lottery win, but a more realistic option and one that would really turn things around is a golden opportunity. And these come your way on a daily basis. Look up and expect something wonderful. One day in the not too distant future, you will look back to now and realize that it was a lucky turning point in your life. http://boothstars.com/category/leo/Sniff of death’ taints...

Leo- Friday, December 10, 2010 Assuming that something which went wrong is all your fault is not the right attitude to adopt. Mistakes are stepping stones to wisdom. What happened, although it caused disappointment, was a necessary prelude to a wonderful change that is about to take place. Look at all you have achieved and be proud of it.http://boothstars.com/category/leo/ ...

Leo- Sunday, December 5, 2010 An adjustment needs to be made now that circumstances have changed. You’re settling into a new environment with which you are not very familiar. Looking back and thinking about how you miss the past won’t do you one iota of good. Trust your abilities and look forward optimistically to where this change is taking you. ...

INDEPTH: CRIMEMelissa Friedrich: Internet Black Widow They call her the Black Widow. For Melissa Friedrich, it's another name on a long list that includes killer.Melissa made headlines in Canada in 1991 when she was arrested and charged with murdering husband Gordon Stewart in Nova Scotia.Known as Melissa Stewart at the time, she fed her husband a lethal dose of liquor, pills and rubbing alcohol. Then she ran...

Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.1960 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.2006 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled...

The Year 2010 In PicturesPhoto Viewer - thestar.com Madoff appears to hold his victims in contempt, snapping: "**** my victims. I carried them for 20 years, and now I'm doing 150 years." The journalist who wrote the piece said in an interview that the impression he got was that Madoff was being treated like a "rock star" in prison: "He was a celebrity, he had groupies, he had people clamouring for his...

November 17, 2010 By Bryan BorzykowskiGas prices in Toronto may have jumped 4.4 cents yesterday to $1.08 a litre, but in Peterborough the cost stayed at just 98.9 cents a litre.What's going on, readers wonder? How can it cost a dime less a litre in more rural areas with presumably less competition?Jason Parent, a senior associate with MJ Ervin & Associates, a London, Ont.-based petroleumm consulting firm, says it...

Check Out WagJag Deals HereBy ROBERT LEE HOTZResearchers on Thursday said they had bred microbes that absorb the notorious poison arsenic into their DNA, in an experiment that could rewrite the rules of life. Until now, all organisms were thought to have six essential elements in common: oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, sulfur, carbon and phosphorus. The researchers say the bacteria they grew in...