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Pope’s ex-student to welcome his mentor to Madagascar quarry 'cathedral'
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Three times a year, Father Pedro Opeka celebrates Mass in a vast grey quarry in the hills above Madagascar's capital. This week, he will welcome his old teacher, Pope Francis, to see the chiselled granite altar from where he ministers. -
In watershed discovery, skull of ancient human ancestor unearthed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists on Wednesday announced the landmark discovery in Ethiopia of a nearly complete skull of an early human ancestor that lived 3.8 million years ago, a species boasting an intriguing mixture of apelike and humanlike characteristics.