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/ 8 September 2005
Critics and public at the Venice film festival have made the George Clooney directed Good Night, and Good Luck the clear favourite to win the two-week event’s prestigious Golden Lion award, to be announced on Saturday. With just a few of the 20 films in the official competition yet to be screened, Clooney’s film remains the most popular with critics and public alike.
A popular clamour for Pope John Paul II to be quickly canonized as a Catholic saint erupted in St. Peter’s Square on Friday toward the end of the funeral mass for the pontiff. The crowd chanted ”santo, santo” over and again, briefly holding up the ceremony, and some people held up large banners demanding the quick canonisation of the late pope.
John Paul II revolutionised the papacy with his formidable energy and intellectual abilities but his most lasting memorial was to be achieved in the field of politics: the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The pope, who died on Saturday aged 84, gave the papacy a higher profile than it had ever had before.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) warned on Tuesday over the effects of an oil and gas project on the ”critically endangered” western grey whale. The IWC adopted a resolution that ”strongly recommends” that subsidiaries of Exxon, Royal Dutch Shell and BP halt seismic exploration activity.
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