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In northern Israel, Arab and Jewish children are finding common ground in an unusual way - at the only youth circus of its kind in the country. Based in the town of Carmiel, the Galilee Circus aims to bring the two communities together by teaching friendship and co-operation through the performing arts. There are 50 Arab and Jewish performers, from mainly Jewish Carmiel and Israeli Arab villages, who meet for classes twice a week in a community centre gymnasium. BBC published testimony of participants . Fourteen-year-old Manar Asadi is from the village of Dir El Assad. She said she never met any Jewish children before she joined the circus. "At first I thought they were bad, but when I met them at the circus I found they were good and beautiful people," she said. "I think the circus is a good idea because it is doing something special and it's good for our future”. Shair Ben Yosef, 14, an Israeli Jew from the village of Atzmon, said he also met Arab children for the ...

Dr Watson has drawn severe criticism over remarks he made in a British newspaper at the weekend. In the interview, he was quoted as saying Africans were less intelligent than Europeans. The Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory had already distanced itself from the scientist's comments but its trustee board has now suspended him. Dr Watson was due to give a lecture at the Science Museum in London on Friday as part of a book tour. But the museum cancelled the event, saying the scientist had gone beyond the point of acceptable debate. The Bristol Festival of Ideas has also cancelled an appearance by Dr Watson. And further critical comment of Dr Watson's views has come from Dr. Craig Venter, the scientist/businessman who led the private effort to decode the human genome. Dr. Venter said. "There is no basis in scientific fact or in the human genetic code for the notion that skin colour will be predictive of intelligence." In his Sunday Times interview, Dr Watson was quoted as sa...

Giant new church at Fatima shrine Thousands of pilgrims have flocked to a ceremony in Portugal to consecrate one of the world's biggest church. The Church of the Holy Trinity is at the shrine of Fatima, where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to three shepherd children in 1917.The church can accommodate nearly 9,000 worshippers and has no internal columns. Pope Benedict XVI given a televised address to the congregation on Sunday. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican's secretary of state, and about 40 other cardinals and bishops from around the world attended Friday's opening ceremony. The site, 113km (70 miles) north of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, took three years to build and is said to be the world's fourth biggest church. Designed by Greek architect Alexandros Tombazis, it has 13 doors, said to represent Christ's last supper with the 12 apostles. More than 250,000 pilgrims attended the inauguration this weekend of a new chu...