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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu[3] (pronounced [aɡˈnɛs ˈɡɔndʒe bɔjaˈdʒiu]), was an Indian[4] Catholic nun of Albanian[5][6] origin who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries. Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.[7][8]

By the 1970s, she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary and book Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counselling programs, orphanages, and schools.

She has been praised by many individuals, governments and organizations; however, she has also faced a diverse range of criticism. These include objections by various individuals and groups, including Christopher Hitchens, Michael Parenti, Aroup Chatterjee, Vishva Hindu Parishad, against the proselytizing focus of her work including a strong stance against contraception and abortion, a belief in the spiritual goodness of poverty and alleged baptisms of the dying. Medical journals also criticised the standard of medical care in her hospices and concerns were raised about the opaque nature in which donated money was spent.

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Pamplona bans vuvuzelas for bull run

World Cup instrument made famous in South Africa deemed irritating and dangerous by organisers

It is one of the biggest and loudest parties on the planet, but organisers of the nine-day San Fermín fiesta in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona have decided there is one thing that it can not cope with – the ear-shattering vuvuzela horn made famous by South Africans during the World Cup.


As the partying in Pamplona kicked off at midday today with the traditional chupinazo, when thousands of people pack into the main square and start drinking, the town hall has announced a ban on traders selling vuvuzelas.


"Given that vuvuzelas produce noise levels that are both irritating and dangerous, sale of them has been expressly forbidden," a town hall statement said, adding that police would confiscate any found on sale.


The Pamplona town hall has provided its own definition of what a vuvuzela is. "It is a sort of elongated trumpet, normally made of plastic, that makes a sound similar to the trumpeting of an elephant or the buzz of a bee," it said, adding that the instrument had become "widely known for the deafening noise it makes in the stadiums of the World Cup in South Africa".


San Fermín is famous, above all, for the daily bull runs that start tomorrow and last for eight days.


Last year a runner from the central Spanish town of Alcalá de Henares, 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno Romero, became the first person to die in the bull runs for 14 years after being gored through the neck. Fifteen people have died over the past century.


Pamplona's annual fiestas attract huge numbers of foreign visitors, with between 2,000 and 3,500 people a day running along the 848-metre stretch of street with six half-ton bulls. Organisers say that excessive drinking causes as many health problems during the fiestas as the bull run itself.


The town hall has this year produced a set of rules for runners, which ban those drunk or on drugs from taking part and advises runners that one of the most dangerous things they can do is stop and stand still.

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Sir Alfred Mehran, the Man who lives at the Airport since 1988

Mehran Karimi Nasseri, also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran (yes, including the comma), is an Iranian refugee who has been living in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport since August 8, 1988. After he was later imprisoned, tortured and expelled from his country, he applied for asylum in many European countries without luck. When he decided to go to the United Kingdom, he claimed that he was mugged, and his shoulder bag stolen while waiting at the RER platform to go to Charles de Gaulle Airport to take a flight to Heathrow. Nasseri managed to board the plane, but when he arrived at Heathrow without the necessary documentation, Heathrow officials sent him back to Charles de Gaulle. Nasseri was unable to prove his identity or his refugee status to the French officials and so he was moved to the Zone d'attente (waiting zone), a holding area for travellers without papers. Nasseri was reportedly the inspiration behind the 2004 movie The Terminal. Unlike Tom Hanks' character in the movie, and since at least 1994, Nasseri does not live in the duty-free transit area but simply in the departure hall, in the circular boutiques and restaurants passage on the lowest floor. He can at least theoretically leave the terminal at any moment, although, since everyone knows him, his departure might not remain unnoticed. He does not seem to speak with anyone normally. With his cart and bags, he almost looks like a traveler, so people either do not notice him or ignore him as if he were a homeless person.