QUIRKY WORLD ... Pope all dolled up as bobble head of the Catholic Church
The World Meeting of Families website features posters, T-shirts, and life-sized cutouts depicting the 78-year-old Francis in his trademark white cassock and zucchetto.
The Pope’s nine-day visit to the US and Cuba ends with a two-day stop in Philadelphia on September 26-27.
He’s scheduled to visit inmates, speak on religious freedom and immigration, and celebrate Mass with an anticipated crowd of more than 1m people.
Among the other items for sale online are travel mugs featuring the World Meeting logo and My First Rosary baby toys.
Authorities seized a 45-tonne Panther tank, a flak cannon, and multiple other Second World War-era military weapons in a raid on a 78-year-old collector’s home in northern Germany, prosecutors said.
Kiel prosecutor Birgit Hess said the collector is being investigated for possibly violating German weapons laws, but remains free while the probe is ongoing.
Investigators also seized a torpedo and multiple other military items in addition to the Panzer V ‘Panther’ tank and 88mm flak gun, Hess said. German military engineers were called in to haul the tank out of the underground garage of the house in Kitzeberg, near Kiel.
The collector came to authorities’ attention in an investigation into black market Nazi-era art that in May turned up two massive bronze horse statues that once stood in front of Adolf Hitler’s chancellery. Those were in the possession of another man, who maintains he is the rightful owner.
#Germany authorities seize suspect illegal #WWII Panther tank, 8.8cm Flak AA & torpedo from Heikendorf villa pic.twitter.com/9QBRdL3m9B
— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) July 3, 2015
The tank owner has made no secret of his collection, and
Kristin Schroeder told the local Kieler Nachrichten newspaper that the man had even fired up the tank during the bad winter of 1978-79 and helped move snow.
“It was well known, at least to all the older Kitzebergers, that he had a tank,” Schroeder said.
Colombia’s government plans to carry out lie detector tests on senior civil servants who allocate contracts to private companies as it tries to clamp down on widespread corruption and embezzlement of public funds.
Polygraphy will be used initially to test executives in the 72 government departments that have so far signed up to a transparency pact. The executives will be tested before and after concluding contracts for provision of goods and services to the government.
The country’s vice president, German Vargas Lleras, is promoting the lie detector tests as a means of boosting investor confidence as the government allocates contracts to upgrade the national road network, estimated to cost more than $20bn (€18bn).
Spiders are able to travel across water like ships, using their legs as sails and silk as an anchor, scientists have learned.
The arachnids were already known to take to the air on “ballooning” flights, using their silk to catch the wind and carry them up to 30km a day.
Now tests carried out on trays of water show that many species adopted elaborate postures, such as lifting a pair of legs, to take advantage of wind currents.
A man robbed a New Jersey bank four months after he was released from prison for robbing the same place five years earlier, according to prosecutors.
Keith Ney, 54, had been released from prison on December 9 and was still on supervised release.
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