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'Virtual Life': EU's three year, 3.3 million euro 3D virtual world project
Virtual constitutions and nations, a 3D world, democracy and censorship: these are the keywords of a virtual reality project in the style of Second Life financed by the European Union for a total of three million euros. Welcome to Virtual Life
pope benedict xvi, second life, privacy, structural funds, culture, comics, censorship
Condoms worsen the AIDS epidemic in Africa
Pope Benedict XVI began his Africa tour on 17 March. The European press criticises his statement, made in Cameroon, that the distribution of condoms was worsening the Aids epidemic rather than helping to stop it. Views from the UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Germany
Benedict XVI, stuck in the Middle Ages?
The catholic church is in trouble. On the one hand the raging controversies with other religions and the non-religious world have been reduced to a minimum. On the other hand however there is a fraction in the Pope's internal world
Italy: coma patient Eluana Englaro dies after Berlusconi row
After more than 16 years in a persistent vegetative state, 38-year-old Eluana Englaro has died in the 'La Quiete' clinic in the northern Italian city of Udine after doctors removed her feeding tubes. The European press discusses the political intrigues surrounding her death
pope benedict xvi, silvio berlusconi, press review, death, health, medicine, euthanasia
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