• If they jumped vertically with no run up, their centre of mass would clear 3.5m compared to humans' 60cm.

    BBC: Gibbons' extraordinary jumps 'down to technique'

  • By digitising the outline of each jumping gibbon frame by frame, they revealed how its centre of mass moved, and they calculated the forces needed to propel 6kg (a stone) of hairy ape through the air.

    BBC: Gibbons' extraordinary jumps 'down to technique'

  • The largest crowd during the Pope's stay is expected on Sunday, when he will say an open-air mass in Blonie, near the centre of Krakow.

    BBC: Pope pleads for peace and mercy

  • Several hundred Harland and Wolff workers have marched from their shipyard to the centre of Belfast for a mass meeting.

    BBC: Shipyard workers hold mass meeting

  • In its first 32 years (after which Congress curbed mass immigration), 16m immigrants passed through the centre.

    ECONOMIST: Developing New York

  • But Pope Benedict held a feet-washing Mass at the same Casal del Marmo youth detention centre in Rome in 2007.

    BBC: Pope Francis to wash feet of prisoners in pre-Easter Mass

  • The centre will integrate expertise in cell biology, mass spectrometry, proteomics, "big-data" analytics, drug discovery and computer science to exploit the potential of the human genome project for healthcare and the development of safer drugs.

    BBC: Dundee University awarded ?700,000 for DNA data project

  • The list of about 260 firms worldwide that have business dealings with countries involved with terrorism and weapons of mass destruction was compiled by Washington-based Investor Responsibility Research Centre.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • In 2001, many bosses swallowed their doubts about the conflicts of interest inherent in Mr Berlusconi's ownership of Mediaset, which controls the three main private television channels, and about the mass of legal cases outstanding against him, because they hoped that a centre-right government with a substantial majority by some claims, the first such government since the war would pursue a programme of Thatcherite reforms.

    ECONOMIST: Italy's election

  • Pope Francis will celebrate Mass on Thursday next week by washing the feet of prisoners in a youth detention centre in Rome, the Vatican has said.

    BBC: Pope Francis to wash feet of prisoners in pre-Easter Mass

  • We set up at a mass grave, a modern hotel, outside a former presidential palace, in a centre for victims of rape and HIV, and inside a football stadium.

    BBC: About BBC News | This is BBC News | Here's one I made earlier

  • Meanwhile, Leicestershire Police, working in co-operation with specialist officers from Scotland Yard, said they had asked the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem to send witness statements and evidence that implicate Kalejs in mass murder in his native Latvia.

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