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Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square Gets 720-ton Sand Nativity Scene
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters)
The traditional nativity scene in St. Peter's Square won't be so traditional this year. For the first time, it is...
Festive Fun or Festive Fail? Christmas Classics Cause Offence
By Rachel Savage
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Music is as much a part of the Christmas season as nativity scenes, snow and Santa grottos
But some seasonal...
Traveller Women in Britain Risk Abuse and Isolation
By Sonia Elks
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
Roma and traveller women in Britain face high levels of domestic abuse and rarely seek help beyond their close-knit...
Finnish Game Maker Supercell Launches Free Coding School to Combat Labor...
HELSINKI (Reuters)
Finland's Supercell, maker of the Clash of Clans mobile game, said on Wednesday it would fund a new software programming school free of...
EU Ministers Fail to Break Digital Tax Deadlock
By Leigh Thomas
BRUSSELS (Reuters)
European Union finance ministers failed to agree a tax on digital revenues on Tuesday, despite a last minute Franco-German plan to...
Italy Police Arrest Alleged New Mafia Boss in Sicily
By Wladimir Pantaleone
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters)
Police arrested the suspected new head of the Sicilian mafia and 45 other alleged gangsters on Tuesday, dealing a major...
