The rally was organised by both pro-Beijing and pro-democracy political parties Thousands of people have joined a rally in Hong Kong to express their anger at the Philippines' handling of last week's tourist coach hijacking.

They are demanding an explanation of how eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in the hostage-taking in Manila.

Their coach was hijacked by a disgruntled ex-policeman, Rolando Mendoza, who was killed as police attempted to rescue…

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Editor's Note: Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World," is a regular CNN Belief Blog contributor.

By Stephen Prothero, Special to CNN

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sland County, Washington (CNN) -- Colton Harris-Moore returned Thursday to a setting with which he is all-too-acquainted: a Washington State courtroom. After two years on the run, Harris-Moore, 19, heard the charge and possible jail time he faces for stealing a plane.

The teen had been on the run since he walked away from a juvenile halfway house in Renton, Washington, in 2008.

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Workers picketed a Halifax-area Farmers Dairy plant on Sunday, with the workers saying they had been locked out and the company saying the workers were on strike.

A Farmers Dairy spokesman said the Nova Scotia-based firm would continue processing milk at the plant for the duration of the job action.

Many of the affected employees work at the company's processing and packaging plant on Hammond's Plains Road near Bedford, N.S., the site of the picket…

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