Weekly news round-up - a regular feature spotlighting interesting stories from the week:


British troops temporarily invaded Spain when a landing exercise on Gibraltar went wrong.

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A male sexuality class at The University of California at Berkeley has been suspended after the campus newspaper published allegations that students watched their instructor have sex at a strip club and participated in an orgy at an extracurricular party.

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The Vatican said Tuesday it would neither confirm nor deny a report that Pope John Paul II has now carried out three exorcisms during his papacy, the latest in September. The Rev. Gabriele Amorth, an exorcist for the Rome diocese, told La Stampa newspaper, that the most recent exorcism involved a young woman who appeared to be possessed during the pope’s general audience.

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A Filipino man was killed and his friend seriously wounded after they sarcastically applauded a student for singing Frank Sinatra’s classic “My Way” off-key, according to a newspaper report.

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Their lawsuit in Johnson County District Court alleges that the previous homeowners and the real estate professionals had a duty to disclose that a “gruesome murder” had occurred in the house they were buying just north of 95th Street on High Drive.

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