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Don't take "holy" water onto pope plane
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has warned journalists who will travel with Pope Benedict to Lourdes next month not to put the revered water from the shrine in their hand luggage on the papal plane or it may be confiscated.
Source:Don’t take “holy” water onto pope plane
Museum defies pope over crucified frog
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian museum Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.
Source:Museum defies pope over crucified frog
Dutch say Pisa no longer Europe's most leaning tower
BEDUM, Netherlands (Reuters) - The Tower of Pisa is being challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe’s most steeply leaning tower.
Source:Dutch say Pisa no longer Europe's most leaning tower
Woman wearing veil told to leave Italian museum
ROME (Reuters) - The head of one of Venice’s most prestigious museums apologized on Wednesday to a Muslim woman asked to leave the building by a guard because she was wearing a veil over her face.
Source:Woman wearing veil told to leave Italian museum
Rat meat in demand as inflation bites
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - The price of rat meat has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people, officials said on Wednesday.
Source:Rat meat in demand as inflation bites
Police to shame jaywalkers on TV
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai police will post photos and videos of jaywalkers in newspapers and on TV in a bid to shame them out of breaking traffic rules, local media reported on Thursday.
Source:Police to shame jaywalkers on TV
