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.

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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.

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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

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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