A film based on the life of a priest is drawing large crowds in Colombia. La pasión de Gabriel is about a priest in a rural town whose passions include a search for justice in an area hemmed in by armed groups: far-right paramilitaries, Leftist guerrillas and security forces.

• In early August, indigenous artists from the Australian state of Queensland collaborated in an exhibition. They wove thousands of metres of discarded fishing nets into sculptures. Much marine life gets trapped in these nets.

• Switzerland's data protection watchdog demanded that Google immediately withdraw the "Street View" facility it has started offering on its map of Switzerland. The country's data protection and transparency officer Hanspeter Thuer warned the US-based Internet giant was not respecting personal privacy in Switzerland.

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In June this year, an environmental group invaded an EU meet in Manchester, UK. Four members of the group released personal attack alarms attached to helium balloons and shouted anti-aviation slogans before leaving the building to unfold a large banner outside that accused delegates of being "criminals".