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Abercrombie & Fitch Faces Lawsuit Over Muslim Headscarf (Time.com)
French find prehistoric animal worship site (AFP)
Ukraine: hotel plan for Nazi killing field opposed (AP)
Pope visits Czech Republic with many nonbelievers (AP)
'Pretty Woman' takes Hindu names for kids: report (AFP)
Portugal says Pope Benedict XVI to visit Fatima (AP)

Abercrombie & Fitch Faces Lawsuit Over Muslim Headscarf (Time.com)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:55 AM PDT

Time.com - A young Muslim woman is suing Abercrombie & Fitch after the company allegedly declined to hire her because she wears a hijab. Does she have a case?

French find prehistoric animal worship site (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:34 AM PDT

AFP - French archaeologists have discovered the oldest known place of worship dedicated to the dugong, or sea cow, on an island just north of Dubai, two research centres said Thursday.

Ukraine: hotel plan for Nazi killing field opposed (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 11:37 AM PDT

AP - Jewish groups condemned Thursday a plan by authorities in the Ukrainian capital to build a hotel on what a leading scholar said was a killing field in the Babi Yar massacre, a horrific chapter of the Holocaust.

Pope visits Czech Republic with many nonbelievers (AP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:56 AM PDT

AP - Pope Benedict XVI is going to the heart of central Europe 20 years after the fall of communism ended restrictions on religion. But what he will find is a Czech Republic where nearly half the population professes to be nonbelievers.

'Pretty Woman' takes Hindu names for kids: report (AFP)

Posted: 24 Sep 2009 06:38 AM PDT

AFP - The children of Hollywood star Julia Roberts have been given Hindu names during shooting for her latest blockbuster in India, which has upset some locals over its use of a temple, reports say.