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50 ships, with thousands of people, trapped in Baltic Sea ice

A total of about 50 ships, including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board, were stuck Friday in ice, after gale-force winds built up large ice masses in the Baltic Sea off Sweden's east coast, officials said.

Vatican rocked by usher's gay sex scandal

One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in the Vatican's St Peter's Basilica have allegedly been involved in an organized network of gay prostitution.