THE DECISION, REACHED IN SECRET BY A SMALL CADRE OF VATICAN OFFICIALS, was sure to add to the problems of the 77-million-strong Anglican Communion as it seeks to deal with deep doctrinal divisions that threaten a permanent schism among its faithful.

The change means conservative Anglicans from around the world will be able to join the Catholic Church while retaining aspects of their Anglican liturgy and identity, including married priests. Until now, disaffected Anglicans had joined the church primarily on a case by case basis. "THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH DOES NOT REQUIRE A UNIFORMITY THAT IGNORES CULTURAL DIVERSITY, AS THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY SHOWS," said Cardinal William Levada, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in announcing the decision.

The spiritual leader of the global Anglican church, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, was not consulted about the change and was informed only hours before the announcement. The decision could undermine decades of talks between the Vatican and Anglican leaders over how they could possibly reunite. Although Levada insisted such discussions remain a priority, THE VATICAN MOVE COULD BE TAKEN AS A SIGNAL THAT THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ECUMENICAL TALKS IS TO CONVERT ANGLICANS TO CATHOLICISM.

Yet, it says most developing countries spend less than 2% of their national budgets on mental healthcare. The warning comes as the first Global Mental Health Summit starts in Athens, Greece.

WHO figures reveal that currently, over 450 million people are directly affected by mental disorders or disabilities, MOST OF WHOM LIVE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. The five-day summit in Athens will provide the opportunity to address what the organisers are calling a crisis in global mental healthcare.

"WHO figures clearly show that the burden because of depression is likely to increase - so much so that in 2030 this will be the single biggest cause for burden out of all health conditions," Dr Shekhar Saxena of the Department of Mental Health at the WHO, told the BBC World Service.

On Thursday, 7.9 million people in Britain headed home or found alternative berths from which to switch on the BBC's late-night weekly politics show, almost three times the program's normal viewership and around half of the total TV audience for the 10:35pm slot. They were drawn like moths by a fiery controversy over the BBC's decision to invite Nick Griffin, the leader of THE EXTREMIST BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY, to join the debate.

The taxi driver was determined to share his opinions on the matter, no matter that his passenger was dreamily communing with her iPod. "I'm not a BNP supporter," bellowed the cabbie, craning round to make sure he had my full attention. "BUT AT LEAST THE BNP TALKS ABOUT WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY: THE SPECIAL DISPENSATIONS TO MINORITIES. Nobody speaks for people like me."

The sense of grievance articulated by this cabbie is widely held, and is especially potent among white, working-class Britons, who believe they are IN COMPETITION WITH IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITIES FOR LIMITED JOBS AND RESOURCES, AND THAT THE POLITICAL CLASSES GIVE PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO THOSE GROUPS.

But for some white Britons, especially those in poorer areas, at least part of the BNP message resonates: that, as Griffin puts it, they are "shut out in their own country." DISENFRANCHISED AND ALIENATED, SUCH VIEWERS WILL HAVE DRAWN A DIFFERENT LESSON FROM QUESTION TIME. They saw Griffin attempting to hold his own as politicians from Britain's mainstream parties, showing a rare unanimity of purpose, attacked and belittled him. YET POLITICIANS IN BRITAIN ARE AT BEST DAMAGED GOODS, their authority sapped by constant partisan skirmishing and their reputations tarnished by recent revelations of Westminster's venal expenses culture. In that context, their joint assault on Griffin, heartfelt as it was, COULD READ LIKE THE ESTABLISHMENT CONSPIRING TO PROTECT ITS VESTED INTERESTS AGAINST AN OUTSIDER.

With British parliamentary elections due by June 2010, party tacticians may be tempted to borrow from the BNP's populist playbook, talking tough on immigration and integration. Such rhetoric often proves a vote winner. But exploiting voters' discontent can simply stoke it. UNTIL MAINSTREAM PARTIES FIGURE OUT HOW TO EARN BACK PUBLIC TRUST AND RESPECT, THE LUNATIC FRINGES WILL GAIN GROUND. That might be good news for BBC ratings, but it's bad news for British democracy.

The site houses both the al-Aqsa mosque and the Jewish holy site, the Western Wall. A spokesman said police did not enter the al-Aqsa mosque itself. The clashes came amid rising tensions in the past weeks over the area.

On Saturday, Jerusalem police announced they would strengthen policing around the Temple Mount after Muslim leaders urged Palestinians to defend Jerusalem against "Jewish conquest." There have been rumours among Palestinians that Jewish extremists were planning on harming the holy site - though no such attempt has been made.

Israel has rebuffed Obama's request for a complete freeze on settlement construction, while Arab states, whose own peace offer has gathered dust since 2002, have brushed off his calls for goodwill gestures toward the Jewish state. Sceptics point to a rightwing Israeli cabinet more focused on threats from Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas than on making peace with Palestinians mired in rivalry between Islamist militants ruling the Gaza Strip and their Fatah foes in the West Bank.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave her boss a status report on Thursday which appeared to confirm widespread doubts inside and outside the region that progress is possible. "THIS REPRESENTS A CLEAR FAILURE BY A PRESIDENT WHO TRIED TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE AND, A YEAR ON, ADMITS HE HAS FAILED," Yossi Beilin, an Israeli architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, told Israel's army radio on Friday. Washington still hopes to relaunch peace talks that stalled in December if it can forge a deal on their terms of reference

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has, with evident distaste, bowed to US pressure to talk of negotiating the creation of a Palestinian state, BUT ONLY IF IT IS DEMILITARIZED AND IF PALESTINIANS RECOGNIZE ISRAEL AS A JEWISH STATE. Palestinians see this demand as prejudicing the claims to return or compensation of refugees displaced in the 1948 war over Israel's creation, and as undermining the status of Israeli Arabs who make up a fifth of its population.

The prime ministers of regional giants China and India also looked to foster unity on the sidelines of the summit in Thailand after months of trading barbs over long-standing territorial issues. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said a proposed East Asian community involving all 16 countries should aspire to take a leading role as the region makes an early rebound from the global economic crisis.

"It would be meaningful for us to have the aspiration that East Asia is going to lead the world and with the various countries with different regimes cooperating with each other towards that perspective," Hatoyama, who took office last month, told the Bangkok Post newspaper. He described Japan's alliance with the United States as the cornerstone of its foreign policy, but said the region should "try to reduce as much as possible the gaps, the disparities that exist amongst the Asian countries".

China would "doubtless" grow further, particularly economically, "but I do not necessarily regard that as a threat," Hatoyama said. Officials said separately that East Asian nations would carry out a feasibility study for a huge free trade zone covering ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea and a larger group involving India, Australia and New Zealand.

The declaration that Obama signed late Friday means Health and Human Services chief Kathleen Sebelius to bypass federal rules when opening alternative care sites, such as offsite hospital centers at schools or community centers, if needed. Hospitals could modify patient rules — for example, requiring them to give less information during a hectic time — to quicken access to treatment, with government approval.

The declaration, which the White House announced Saturday, allows HHS in some cases to let hospitals relocate emergency rooms offsite to reduce flu-related burdens and to protect noninfected patients. Administration officials said the declaration was a pre-emptive move designed to make decisions easier when they need to be made. Officials said this was not in response to any single development on an outbreak that has lasted months and has killed more than 1,000 people in the United States.

The quake struck at a depth of 92 miles (148km), USGS reported. Indonesia issued but later withdrew a tsunami alert. Indonesia sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire, one of the world's most active areas for earthquakes and volcanoes. IT HAS RECENTLY BEEN STRUCK BY STRING OF DEADLY EARTHQUAKES. In September, dozens were killed by a tremor off Java, while a quake which hit Sumatra left more than 1,000 people dead.

According the the USGS, Saturday's earthquake struck 138 miles (222km) from Saumlaki, in Indonesia's Tanimbar islands. Indonesian authorities reportedly put the quake's magnitude at 7.3.

"Those earnings are not the achievement of risk-takers," Mr Soros said. "These are gifts, hidden gifts, from the government, so I don't think that those monies should be used to pay bonuses. THERE'S A RESENTMENT WHICH I THINK IS JUSTIFIED." Mr Soros, who joins a transatlantic chorus calling for limits on risk, leverage and compensation at big banks, said proprietary traders belong at hedge funds, not at banks, and that the compensation at Wall Street companies should be limited to prevent excessive risk.

"With the too-big-to-fail concept comes a need to regulate the payments that employees receive," said Mr Soros, who will elaborate on his views in lectures in Budapest next week. Some bankers have argued that limits on pay would make it difficult for them to retain their most talented risk-takers. Mr Soros agreed and said this would be a good thing.

"That would push the risk-takers who are good at taking risks out of Goldman Sachs into hedge funds, where they actually belong, BECAUSE HEDGE FUNDS TAKE RISKS WITH THEIR OWN CAPITAL, NOT WITH DEPOSITS AND NOT WITH GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES," he said.

He said Labour's relaxation of controls was A DELIBERATE PLAN TO "OPEN UP THE UK TO MASS MIGRATION" but that ministers were nervous and reluctant to discuss such a move publicly for fear it would alienate its "core working class vote". As a result, the public argument for immigration concentrated instead on the economic benefits and need for more migrants.

Critics said the revelations showed a "conspiracy" within Government to impose mass immigration for "cynical" political reasons. Mr Neather was a speech writer who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, in the early 2000s.

Writing in the Evening Standard, he revealed the "major shift" in immigration policy came after the publication of a policy paper from the Performance and Innovation Unit, a Downing Street think tank based in the Cabinet Office, in 2001. Some 2.3 million migrants have been added to the population since then, according to Whitehall estimates quietly slipped out last month.

Sir Andrew Green, chairman of the Migrationwatch think tank, said: "Now at least the truth is out, and it's dynamite. Many have long suspected that mass immigration under Labour was not just a cock up but also a conspiracy. They were right. THIS GOVERNMENT HAS ADMITTED THREE MILLION IMMIGRANTS FOR CYNICAL POLITICAL REASONS CONCEALED BY DODGY ECONOMIC CAMOUFLAGE."

WND has reported multiple times on the background of Jennings, who founded the "Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network," which promotes homosexuality in public schools across the nation. "The real story here is not the corruption of Harvard – that's old hat – the real story is THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CHOOSING A MORALLY CHALLENGED ANTI-CATHOLIC HOMOSEXUAL TO JOIN HIS TEAM.

That Jennings belongs to, and sponsors, an urban terrorist organization, should alone disqualify him from public service at a municipal level. And remember, Obama did not choose him to monitor global cooling – HE WAS CHOSEN TO INSTRUCT YOUTH ON MORAL MATTERS," Donohue said. "Catholics deserve to know why Obama likes Jennings."

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Regional analysts say that Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Recep Erdogan seeks to re-establish Turkey's historical influence in the Turkic countries of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan by perpetuating a peacekeeping role where it either ruled or dominated for centuries.

As pointed out in the G2B's June 29 article titled, "Turkey losing interest in EU," Turkey's apparent foreign policy shift may be due in part to a new generation of advisers surrounding Erdogan. Turkey's new foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, for example, is one such influential adviser who has outlined what he calls a "multidimensional policy" contrary to what has been practiced.

Previous Turkish leadership has been more Western leaning, focusing entirely on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Europe and the United States.

Maimonides, the renowned Torah giant known as the Rambam, later wrote of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, "We left Acco for Jerusalem under perilous conditions. I entered into 'the great and holy house' [the Temple Mount] and prayed there on the sixth day of the month of Cheshvan." The Rambam further wrote that he visited the Machpelah Cave on the 9th of Cheshvan, and that he vowed to make both those dates "a special holiday [to mark the occasions] on which I will rejoice with prayer, food and drink."

The event is being held on the backdrop of the closure of the holy site to all Jews throughout the weeklong Sukkot holiday, when many had planned on visiting. The police explained that they had no choice but to close it because of the Arab riots in the area. Hundreds of Jews visited the site after the holiday.

The rabbis and public figures will also protest the "invasive and humiliating" police checks that leading rabbis have recently been forced to undergo when they wish to ascend to the Mount – checks to which non-religious Jews and other visitors are not subject. Organizer Yehuda Glick said, "We will declare with a loud and clear voice that CLOSING THE TEMPLE MOUNT TO JEWS BECAUSE OF ARAB VIOLENCE IS CLEARLY NOT ACCEPTABLE in a Jewish and democratic state."

The reasoning is that if we use greener biofuels in place of gasoline, it will significantly enhance our effort to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But the question is, ARE BIOFUELS REALLY GREEN? A pair of new studies in the October 22 issue of Science damningly demonstrate that the answer is no, at least not the way we currently create and use them.

In the first study, a team of researchers led by Jerry Melillo of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, projected the effects of a major biofuel expansion over the coming century and found that it could end up increasing global greenhouse-gas emissions instead of reducing them.

In the second paper, another team of researchers led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University uncovered a potentially damaging flaw in the way carbon emissions from bioenergy are calculated under the Kyoto Protocol and in the carbon cap-and-trade bill currently being debated in Congress. If that error in calculation goes unfixed, a future increase in biofuel use could end up backfiring and derailing efforts to control global warming, according to the paper.

"Biofuels can be an important part of the portfolio of climate-change activities," says Steve Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund and a corresponding author on the second Science paper. "But we have to make sure we incentivize the right way, or we could end up with perverse outcomes."

Knowing they will face unyielding GOP attacks for voting to increase the eye-popping debt, Democrats are considering ATTACHING A DEBT INCREASE PROVISION TO A MUST-PASS BILL, possibly the Defense Department spending bill, according to Democratic and Republican sources.

Adding it to the defense bill would allow Democrats to argue that they voted for the measure to help troops in harm's way — and downplay that their vote also expanded the limit for how much money the country can borrow.

The strategy has not yet been finalized, aides and senators said. The House already approved a debt limit increase of $925 billion — above the $12.1 trillion ceiling Congress approved as part of the economic stimulus package last February — but Democrats may seek to increase the limit further so they don't have to revisit the politically treacherous issue until after the 2010 midterm elections.