The idea came to the young lovebirds during the celebration of the New Year's eve. The families of the two talked about a holiday to Italy, which pretty much entertained Mika and Anna-Lena. The next morning, when their parents slept, the three children slipped out of the house and walked about a kilometer (0.6 miles) to the nearest tram station at Langenhagen, where the trio took a tram for Hanover central station, reports BBC News.

The Vatican on Friday condemned as "unjustified and inopportune" a claim by a church official that pressure from Jewish organizations is delaying the beatification of Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff who critics say didn't do enough to stop the Holocaust.

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"What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know an answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life." - Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam: Querido Verlag, 1934. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the 'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security. - New York Post, 28 November 1972

German Gold is an artist with a compassionate, bleeding Jewish heart and a deep Russian feeling for man and for nature. He is an artist who stands out among fellow artists thanks to a harmony of talent and appealing modesty. German Gold - a Jewish artist of Ukraine. Oils, watercolors, pastels. Member of the National Artists' Union of the USSR from 1964. Honored Painter of Ukraine.

Bilingual website (English and German) with a lot of facts of medical prevention and diagnosis.