ewbury Park Primary School, located in Redbridge, northeast London, has a competitive edge that no other school in the world can probably equal-it teaches its 850 students 40 languages. According to British newspaper The Independent, the school has adopted a policy of teaching each language spoken by the 40 ethnic groups represented in the school.

In an attempt to give moral and ethical behavior more significance to current times, the Vatican has recently announced seven new deadly sins, published in an issue of the L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper. The revision of the list comes after 1,500 years, with Vatican officials explaining that the new items address a global "secular" society bent on the concerns in the age of globalization. The sins are said to be an address to the "decreasing sense of sin" in the modern world.

Italian priests are currently undergoing a course in confession, where they are taught the proper way of communicating with sinners and bringing them back to confession. The program was launched to respond to reports of a decline in the number of people going to confession. After identifying one of the reasons as the inappropriate reactions of priests upon hearing of the people's confessions, the "grave crisis" was taken into account and the Vatican is currently attempting to remedy the damage through the lessons.

Danes are up in arms over the manner in which Swedish home furnishing manufacturer IKEA is naming its products. The Danes resent the naming of its lower-end products like doormats and carpets after Danish towns, while christening high-end products after Swedish names. The Danish resentment arose out of an analysis by two Danish academics who performed a thorough analysis into IKEA's naming system. Klaus Kjoller of the University of Copenhagen told a Danish newspaper, "Doormats and runners, as well as inexpensive wall-to-wall carpeting are third-class, if not seventh-class, items when it comes to home furnishings. "

eing stingy cost an Iranian man more after he was ordered by the court to buy his neglected wife 124,000 red roses worth a total of $265,000. Local newspaper Etemad reported that a woman named Hengameh claimed her mahr, or dowry after being married for ten years to her husband Shahin who according to her is so stingy that he cannot even pay for her coffee.