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The Vatican does not allow entrance to tourists dressed in shorts or sleeveless shirts

Visitors wearing shorts or sleeveless shirts are not allowed in the Vatican after officialslaunched a campaign against "inappropriate clothing" forward YahooTravel. The dress code is valid until now regarding the entrance of St. Peter's Basilica, was extended toSt. Peter's Square.

The new dress code prohibits the presence of tourists dressed in shorts, miniskirts orbare shoulders are.

YahooTravel writes that this week, tourists who had not discovered the new rules werevery surprised when they were stopped by the Vatican's Swiss Guard members whohave asked to be covered or not will be left out.

Newspaper Daily Mail writes that many visitors have said that the Catholic Church is"hypocritical"by introducing these restrictions. A tourist from Bristol, James Smith, saidthe new law is "ridiculous. "

NASA plans 28 space missions in order to find life in our solar system

NASA is considering the construction of 28 missions to find life beyond Earth in oursolar system, said an American scientist. "Astrobiology and the search for life are the main objectives of what we should do in these explorations of the solar system, " saidSteve Squyres, a researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

"We think a total of 28 different missions. They cover everything from exploration to the planet Mercury and sending away objects in our solar system - which is very relevant in the search for life, " he continued, AFP .

Among other policy objectives: a mission to Mars in three stages, which would bring toEarth samples of soil. "Those samples could clearly show whether Mars eversupported life forms or support today, " said the scientist. Another part of the missionwill investigate the origins of methane in the atmosphere of the planet and whether ornot organic. Methane breaks down quickly in the martian atmosphere, but scientistshave discovered methane clouds on Mars in 2003, which showed that the planet is notcompletely dead. "We will send a mission to identify potential sources of methane andposilitatea we consider it to be of biological origin, " Squyres said.

Read more in our solar system, scientists are very interested in Europe, a Jupitermoon. "It is believed that Europe has a liquid water ocean under the ice crust. Andthink of a robot mission to Europa, which could, among other things, the ability to use aradar that can penetrate the ice, which can to find the ocean if it exists, identify placeswhere we could go to learn more "about the ocean, "said Squyres.

Germany looking for engineers, programmers and technicians

The German government will adopt new measures this month in an attempt to overcome the chronic crisis of labor in the field of new technologies by attracting skilled immigrants. Germans looking for, especially engineers, programmers and technicians.

The information was made public by a spokesman, but did not specify the exact nature of the measures to be adopted.

The Berlin government is considering creating an "index of labor needs, the query about 7,000 companies, trying in this way to agree the influx of immigrants with skills gaps faced by German industry .

This set of measures has been the subject of intense negotiations, lately, between the Minister of Labour and Social Democrat head of the Interior, a conservative. The two are close to negotiating a common solution, which will be discussed by the council of ministers in 16 or 23 July.

According to AFP, some sectors of German economy, especially that of new technologies, are handicapped by lack of engineers, programmers and qualified technicians.

Measures taken so far by the cabinet in Berlin to attract foreign workers are considered by economists too restrictive and failed, so far, to improve the situation.