Justine Sacco apologizes for unpleasant AIDS tweet after being fired

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Justine Sacco, the PR Executive at InterActiveCorp, who tweeted "going to Africa, hope I do not get AIDS' has written a statement, apologizing for making the expensive joke. She wrote the statement to South African paper, The Celebrity, a day after she got fired by IAC. The apology after the break...

DISGRACE: Cardinal Finally Apologizes For His "Improper Sexual Conduct"..And He Wanted To Be The Pope

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A cardinal at the center of an international scandal over alleged sexual abuse reversed course Sunday, acknowledging wrongdoing.

"I wish to take this opportunity to admit that there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal," Cardinal Keith O'Brien said in a statement.

Until days ago, O'Brien was the archbishop of Scotland.

O'Brien has been dogged by allegations he abused four men studying to be priests in the 1980s.

"In recent days certain allegations which have been made against me have become public. Initially, their anonymous and non-specific nature led me to contest them," O'Brien said.