VIOLENT drug gangs in Mexico, which kill thousands of people a year, fund the building of churches in impoverished villages to try to win over locals, a senior Catholic bishop said
STEADY downpours for two weeks have triggered massive floods in northern Brazil killing at least 15 people and forcing 50,000 to abandon their homes, Civil Defense officials said today
US authorities have removed 52 girls from a polygamous sect`s compound in western Texas and questioned the remaining members of the breakaway Mormon church
Smooth sailing ... David Hicks flew home on a Gulfstream G550 jet plane similar to this one / Supplied
