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Today is the anniversary both of Elvis’s ’68 Comeback Special and the awful Indian Bhopal disaster where, in 1984, a chemical leak killed thousands and injured hundreds of thousands. The Guardian has a photo series.
Today we also sing happy birthday to Eamonn Holmes and remember International Day of Disabled Persons.
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Gays won’t go to heaven, says cardinal
Over in the Telegraph is the latest skirmish in the battle between Catholics and homosexuals.
“Transsexuals and homosexuals will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven and it is not me who says this, but Saint Paul,” said Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, 76. In remarks which outraged gay rights groups, he claimed that people were not born gay, but chose to embrace homosexuality of their own free will.
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