The Financial Times is reporting that before an unauthorized trader at the Swiss investment firm UBS lost $2 billion in trades, he posted on his Facebook account: “Need a miracle.” Although the firm has yet to identify the alleged rogue trader, police reportedly have taken into custody 31-year-old Kweku Adoboli. On his Linkedin account, he lists that he works…

“God is everything to me,” says Ideaner Harden Moore Walker, who just turned 100 years old. “God is great in His goodness.” “I’ve been praying since I was 6 years old,” she told the Orangeburg, S.C., newspaper the Times and Democrat, “and I have received some big blessings. When I was little, I prayed for my father…

Angel Food Ministries, which in the past has delivered discounted food to as many as 5,000 churches in 43 states, has cancelled September’s deliveries and suspended refunds of pre-payments. A statement on the ministry’s website reads:  We regret to inform you that Angel Food Ministries will not be holding a food distribution for the month of September. Full refunds are now…

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has reversed a pledge to Saudi, European and Egyptian officials to hold off on asking the United Nations to recognize as a new state Israel’s occupied Palestinian territories. Sources told the middle eastern news website DEBKAfile that Abbas has decided to go through with his application to the U.N. Security Council…

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