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Thursday 14 February 2013

Vatican planned to move to Portugal if Nazis captured wartime Pope

Secret plans were drawn up by the Vatican to elect a new Pope and flee to a friendly country should Hitler have carried out his threat to kidnap the wartime Pontiff, it was claimed yesterday.

By Nick Squires in Rome and Simon Caldwell

6:55PM BST 21 Apr 2009

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Australian surfer Marti Paradisis rides a wave near Pedra Branca Rock, south of Tasmania in the Southern Ocean. Paradisis won the 'Biggest Wave' section of the Australasian Big Wave Awards, which included $20,000 prize-money. Picture taken November 2012.  

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Pope Benedict XVI

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A devotee offers prayers after a dip in the Yamuna River, polluted by industrial effluent, during Karthik Purnima in New Delhi, India. Karthik Purnima is celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu calendar month of Karthik and considered very auspicious.  

Karthik Purnima festival

Australian surfer Marti Paradisis rides a wave near Pedra Branca Rock, south of Tasmania in the Southern Ocean. Paradisis won the 'Biggest Wave' section of the Australasian Big Wave Awards, which included $20,000 prize-money. Picture taken November 2012.  

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